# Set up your integration

Set up a Stripe Terminal SDK or server-driven integration to accept in-person payments.

# Server-driven


Server-driven integrations use the Stripe API instead of a Terminal SDK to connect to [WisePOS E, Stripe Reader S700/S710, and Verifone smart readers](https://docs.stripe.com/terminal/smart-readers.md) and collect in-person payments. This allows you to:

- Use Terminal even if your infrastructure doesn’t support iOS, Android, or JavaScript SDKs
- Build a Terminal integration that’s powered by your custom middleware or cloud-based infrastructure
- Integrate any device including a .NET-based point of sale to Terminal
- Improve reader network connections using an internet connection instead of the local area network
- Make curl requests to prototype an integration

Server-driven integration doesn’t support:

- [Stripe Terminal mobile readers](https://docs.stripe.com/terminal/mobile-readers.md)
- [Collect card payments while offline](https://docs.stripe.com/terminal/features/operate-offline/collect-card-payments.md)

## Get started

You can start your server-driven integration using the [Terminal Quickstart](https://docs.stripe.com/terminal/quickstart.md) with the following components:

- **Your point of sale application**: The operator-facing UI that employees see when creating a transaction.
- **Your back-end infrastructure**: Mediates requests from your point of sale application and makes requests to the Stripe API during the transaction.
- **The Stripe API**: Receives requests and forwards them to a smart reader, such as the [BBPOS WisePOS E reader](https://docs.stripe.com/terminal/payments/setup-reader/bbpos-wisepos-e.md), [Stripe Reader S700/S710](https://docs.stripe.com/terminal/readers/stripe-reader-s700-s710.md), or a [Verifone reader](https://docs.stripe.com/terminal/payments/setup-reader/verifone.md). Stripe also sends *webhooks* (A webhook is a real-time push notification sent to your application as a JSON payload through HTTPS requests) to your back-end infrastructure with the payment status.
- **A BBPOS WisePOS E reader, Stripe Reader S700/S710, Verifone reader, or simulated reader**: Prompts the cardholder for payment and communicates with Stripe and our financial infrastructure to process the payment. You can create a simulated reader if you don’t yet have a physical reader.
![Server-driven integration architecture](https://b.stripecdn.com/docs-statics-srv/assets/server-driven-integration-architecture.a8499c1169a540cef98c9dd539f99a61.png)

## See also

- [Terminal Quickstart](https://docs.stripe.com/terminal/quickstart.md)
- [Connect to a reader](https://docs.stripe.com/terminal/payments/connect-reader.md?terminal-sdk-platform=server-driven&reader-type=internet)