# SaaS platform partners Embed payments and financial services into your platform with expert guidance, tailored resources, and incentives. SaaS platforms embed payments and financial services directly into their platform. This includes offering features such as Checkout, Invoicing, and lending within their SaaS solution, opening up new revenue opportunities by offering additional features for their businesses. SaaS platforms can join the Stripe Partner Ecosystem at two tiers: Verified Partners gain access to curated, on-demand resources and revenue sharing, while Premier Partners enjoy additional advisory services, enhanced support, and market development funds (MDF). [Become a partner](https://stripe.com/partners/become-a-partner) ## Verified Partner and Premier Partner requirements #### Verified Partner Verified Partners need to meet the following SaaS platform technical and business [requirements](https://docs.stripe.com/partners.md): - Use [Stripe Connect](https://stripe.com/connect) to access Stripe accounts and data - Have set up Stripe [webhook](https://docs.stripe.com/webhooks.md) endpoints for [Connect events](https://docs.stripe.com/connect/webhooks.md) - Use [Payment Intents](https://docs.stripe.com/payments/payment-intents.md) - Minimum of 1 million USD in payment volume - Landing page describing your Stripe integration (recommended, not required) - Use [idempotency keys](https://docs.stripe.com/error-low-level.md#idempotency) (recommended, not required) - Use Stripe [Checkout](https://docs.stripe.com/payments/checkout.md) or [Payment Element](https://docs.stripe.com/payments/payment-element.md) to tokenize payment information (recommended, not required) #### Premier Partner The Premier Partner tier is invite-only based on the following criteria. Premier Partners have achieved at least 1 million USD in partnership revenue for buy-rate platforms or 300 million USD in payment volume for referral model platforms. They also demonstrate their commitment to growing their embedded payments and financial services solutions by achieving high annual payments growth rates and offering multiple Stripe solutions to their businesses. ## Program benefits for SaaS platforms | | Verified Partner | Premier Partner | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------- | --------------- | | Eligible for Stripe Connect revenue sharing | ✓ Available | ✓ Available | | Access to customized growth strategies that we create for your spefific business. | ✓ Available | ✓ Available | | **Build** | | Guides to designing your teams, business models, and migrations | ✓ Available | ✓ Available | | Guides for managing transaction costs (network costs, authorization rates, and fraud prevention) | ✓ Available | ✓ Available | | Product-specific launch recommendations | ✓ Available | ✓ Available | | Access to product private previews | - Unavailable | ✓ Available | | **Market** | | Segmentation and joint value proposition guidance | ✓ Available | ✓ Available | | Marketing content, campaign assets, how-to guides, and templates | ✓ Available | ✓ Available | | Sponsorship and speaking opportunities at Stripe events | ✓ Available | ✓ Available | | Stripe partner badge and co-branding guidelines | ✓ Available | ✓ Available | | Increase your company profile and solution with a directory listing | ✓ Available | ✓ Available | | Growth workshops to drive embedded payments and financial services | - Unavailable | ✓ Available | | Eligible to request market development funds (MDF) | ✓ Available | ✓ Available | | Eligible for joint customer case studies and social media highlights (by invitation) | - Unavailable | ✓ Available | | **Sell** | | Sales enablement and payments education for sellers | ✓ Available | ✓ Available | | Sales enablement templates and tools | ✓ Available | ✓ Available | | Deal registration to request co-selling support | ✓ Available | ✓ Available | | **Scale** | | Support and risk guides | ✓ Available | ✓ Available | | Access to faster reactive Stripe support | - Unavailable | ✓ Available | | Payment and support workshops | - Unavailable | ✓ Available | ## Program benefit details Learn about each program benefit: ### Stripe Connect revenue sharing program Partners in the SaaS platform track using Stripe Connect are eligible for the revenue sharing program, which enables your company to grow as your customers expand with Stripe. ## Build Set the right foundations with essential resources for creating a product roadmap, organizing teams, developing a monetization strategy, and executing migrations. ### Design guides Access guides to organize effective payments teams, develop a successful revenue model, and ensure a smooth rollout of your embedded payments and financial services solutions. ### Transaction cost management guides Access expert advice for managing your transaction costs by implementing network cost efficiencies, understanding authorization rates, and detecting fraud. Understand your network costs structure and how to take advantage of cost+ pricing. Learn about card authorization rates and network declines. Develop your fraud management strategy by accessing best practices to detect and prevent fraud, understanding fintech fraud, and managing fraudulent transactions. ### Product-specific launch recommendations Assess your readiness to launch new embedded solutions with recommendations to guide your technical, operational, and go-to-market strategies. ## Market Shorten your time-to-market with product marketing resources, prebuilt campaigns, and marketing insights. Premier Partners are eligible for tailored advisory, market development funds, and joint case studies. ### Segmentation and joint value proposition guidance Identify your target segments for your embedded payments and financial services within your base. Develop your ideal customer profile and a joint value proposition to inform your messaging strategy. ### Templates and other resources Market with Stripe using our “campaigns in a box” and product marketing toolkits. Stripe provides resources for partners such as messaging frameworks, templated blogs, emails, and social content that you can customize to launch integrated campaigns. ### Sponsorship and speaking opportunities We might invite select partners to participate in speaking opportunities at Stripe events to increase their visibility among Stripe sellers and customers. ### Stripe partner badge and co-branding guidelines Partners can download the Stripe Verified Partner badge or the Stripe Premier Partner badge from the partner portal. You can use these badges externally to promote our partnership and to amplify your listing in the partner directory. Stripe provides partners with complete guidelines on co-branding with Stripe. ### Directory listing The Stripe partner directory listing enables Stripe partners to promote their company and relationship with Stripe. The company details page can help drive leads and build awareness of their solutions or services. ### Tailored marketing advisory workshops Premier Partners are eligible to receive marketing advisory with the Stripe marketing team to discuss insights, best practices, and receive recommendations about how to improve their acquisition, activation, and lifecycle marketing strategies. Partners can request market development funds (MDF) to cover the cost of marketing activities recommended from the workshop. ### Request market development funds (MDF) Premier Partners can request MDF to help fund the cost of co-marketing activities that generate demand for their embedded payments and financial services. Examples of eligible activities include integrated marketing campaigns, paid media, and digital and in-person customer-facing events. To be eligible to request MDF, partners must be in the Premier Partner tier and have attended a marketing advisory workshop. ### Joint customer case studies and social media highlights We might invite Premier Partners to participate in a joint case study to show how we worked together to solve a user’s business challenge. Contact your account executive if you have a story that you want to nominate for consideration. Premier Partners are eligible to be featured across Stripe social media channels, including our LinkedIn page, and have their message amplified to Stripe businesses and community. ## Sell Help deals close faster with sales enablement resources and co-selling support. ### Deal registration Partners can submit a referral to Stripe or they can co-sell with Stripe to close opportunities. You can use three channels for deal registration: submit referrals through the partner portal, bulk upload files with up to 50 leads, or register deals through an ungated lead form. Partners can also track the progress of a deal through the partner portal. ### Sales enablement and payments education for sellers Stripe partners can access sales materials, including pitch decks, discovery guides, and objection handling guidance. ## Scale Tailor your business for your users and manage costs as you expand, and access additional solutions across more markets. ### Guides for optimizing support and risk Review guides selected by Stripe experts to help your users with verifications, support operations, and risk management. Address the most common support questions and access guides to developing a risk management strategy for your target audience. ### Partner awards Our partner awards recognize select Stripe partners who offer customer solutions through Stripe and demonstrate their Stripe expertise. ### Reactive support Premier Partners can access a new service level designed to provide priority, context-aware support and faster reactive support from Stripe. ### Payments and support optimization workshops Premier Partners can receive periodic proactive engagements through a scaled technical account manager. Your account manager can review your technical health and whether we can support your use case. A scaled customer success manager can review your payments health, fraud rates, and authorization rates.