Choose your physical bundle

Stripe helps you set up your physical bundle, which consists of a card, a carrier (the letter sent to cardholders on which the card is affixed), and an envelope. You have different options for both the standard and custom bundles. For bulk orders of multiple cards shipped to a single destination, we don’t include carriers.

Standard bundle options

To get started, go directly to the Designs tab in the Issuing Dashboard. We prompt you to create a design by uploading your logo and adding your carrier text.

The standard bundle includes the following:

• Card: A plastic black or white card with your logo (company logo).
• Carrier: A standard white tri-fold (paper is folded into three) with black text.
• Envelope: Standard white.

You can create multiple standard bundle designs with different logos and carrier text.

A standard black card and standard white tri-fold carrier

A standard envelope

Custom bundle options

Before the bundle becomes available in the Issuing Dashboard, we work with you to design it and place a manufacturing order. To get started, contact your account executive and review Order a custom bundle. To learn more about this process, see Manufacturing and personalizations.

The custom bundle includes the following:

• Card: Your custom design on a plastic, recycled plastic, or metal card.
• Carrier: Your custom design on a trifold carrier (paper is folded in three) or bifold carrier (paper is folded in half). You can also pair your custom card with the standard white trifold carrier.
• Envelope: White non-descript envelope (default) or we can add your logo or brand color on the exterior.

Your design is printed during manufacturing, and can’t change after we produce it. However, you can print an additional logo in black or white on the card after manufacturing.

A custom card and custom tri-fold carrier

A custom envelope

Manufacturing and personalization

The credit card manufacturing process involves creating a card body, typically made of plastic polyvinyl chloride (PVC), layered for increased durability and security. We embed chips into the card for secure, contactless transactions. The cards then undergo quality control and are shipped in bulk to the personalization site using secure transport. We store your bundle at the site and personalize it when you create cards in the Issuing Dashboard.

During personalization, the printer adds unique cardholder information to the bundle, including the cardholder name, number, expiration, and security code to the card. For the carrier, the printer adds the cardholder shipping address. In some cases, the printer can add an additional logo on the card and activation text on the carrier (for standard carriers only) during this stage.

To better illustrate the manufacturing and personalization process, see the following diagram. Standard bundles are pre-manufactured and managed by Stripe, allowing you to skip to step 5 and create and name your bundle design. A custom bundle follows all the steps from 1 to 7.

Manufacturing and personalization