Crypto payments

Learn about crypto and managing payments with digital currencies.

Crypto payments enable businesses to accept transactions in digital currencies, particularly focusing on stablecoins. They offer customers a flexible payment option, facilitating transactions across the globe. The option to pay with crypto appears in your checkout page, redirecting customers to a page hosted by crypto.link.com for payment completion.

Customer locations
Global (except for sanctioned countries)
Presentment currency
Various (for example, USD, EUR)
Payment confirmation
Customer-authenticated
Payment method family
Digital currency payments
Recurring payments
Supported with send_invoice collection method subscriptions.
Refunds / Partial refunds
Yes / Yes
Dispute support
No
Manual capture support
Not supported
Connect support
Yes
Payout timing
Varies by network

Payment flow

Get started

You don’t have to integrate Crypto and other payment methods individually. If you use our front-end products, Stripe automatically determines the most relevant payment methods to display. Go to the Stripe Dashboard and enable Crypto. To get started with one of our hosted UIs, follow a quickstart:

Checkout: Our prebuilt, hosted checkout page.
Elements: Our drop-in UI components.

Other payment products

The following Stripe products also let you add Crypto from the Dashboard:

To get started with accepting stablecoin payments, activate your Stripe account and request the Crypto payment method. After you’re approved, you’ll be ready to integrate stablecoin payments into your checkout process. Learn more about how to accept stablecoins.

Disputes

The risk of fraud or unrecognized payments is low because the customer must authenticate the payment with their bank. As a result, you won’t have disputes that turn into chargebacks, with funds withdrawn from your Stripe account.

Refunds

To issue a refund, follow the refund flow. For crypto payments, the refund goes back as stablecoins in the customer’s original wallet.

Billing

Use Stripe Billing to create crypto-supported invoices and subscriptions. Crypto invoices and subscriptions only support the send_invoice collection method.

Connect support

Connect platforms can accept crypto payments for all charge types, but can’t accept crypto for a charge that has on_behalf_of set. The connected account associated with the charge must have the crypto_payments capability active.

Connected accounts with full Stripe Dashboard access can enable crypto as a payment method in their Dashboard, the same way they enable other payment method capabilities.

For connected accounts without full access to the Stripe Dashboard, including Express and Custom accounts, you must first request access to crypto payments by reaching out to stablecoin-payments@stripe.com. After we enable access, you can request the crypto_payments capability for them using the API or from their account details page in your platform Dashboard.

To see which connected accounts have enabled Crypto, check whether their crypto_payments capability is set to active in the Account object’s capabilities hash.