Stripe introduced support for Scalapay, a BNPL payment method allowing European customers to pay in 3 or 4 monthly installments. The feature is available via PaymentIntents, Checkout Sessions, and Pay…
Stripe significantly expanded its AI-powered fraud prevention tool, Radar, to block high-risk transactions across all global payment methods and defend against new fraud types like multi-account abuse…
Stripe marked its 10-year anniversary in France by hosting two Paris-based conversations with business leaders from Dust, Wecasa, OneRagtime, Le Monde, Accor, and Matthieu Stefani. The events aim to h…
Stripe introduced billing schedules to enable prebilling for future subscription periods, allowing merchants to charge customers upfront for multiple months or ahead of renewals. The feature includes …
Stripe introduced the `amount_paid_off_stripe` property to its Invoice object, enabling precise tracking of payments made outside Stripe (out-of-band) in the invoice’s currency. This replaces the depr…
Stripe introduced support for Bizum, a real-time Spanish payment method, allowing merchants in Spain to offer instant payments via phone-number authentication without external redirects. The feature i…
Stripe introduced Twint as a supported payment method for recurring payments, subscriptions, and future purchases via Billing, Checkout Sessions, PaymentIntents, and SetupIntents. The update includes …
Stripe introduced metadata support for pending subscription updates when using `payment_behavior=pending_if_incomplete`. The metadata is stored in `pending_update.metadata` and applied to the subscrip…
Stripe introduced `discount` and `discounts` properties to the `pending_update` hash on the Subscription object, enabling merchants to preview scheduled discount changes before the next billing cycle.…
Stripe introduced a new `discountable` parameter for add-on invoice items in Subscriptions, Subscription Schedules, and Preview Invoice APIs, allowing explicit control over discount eligibility. Defau…
Stripe introduced the ability to block specific card brands (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover) on Payment Links via the `payment_method_options[card][restrictions][brands_blocked]` parameter. This ali…
Stripe introduced a new `active` parameter for the List PaymentMethodConfigurations endpoint, allowing developers to filter configurations by active status directly in API requests. This eliminates th…
Stripe introduced support for setting description and metadata on destination payments within transfers via the transfer_data parameter on PaymentIntent and Charge objects. Previously limited to trans…
Pricing updated for Stripe:
- Standard: 1.5% + €0.25 → 2.5% + €0.25
- Billing: 0.5% of Billing volume → of Billing volume
- Billing: promotion changed — Pay for what you use. No recurring fees. Best f…
AWS launched AgentCore payments in Amazon Bedrock, enabling AI agents to pay for services like APIs and web content. Privy, a Stripe company, provides the wallet infrastructure and payment rails along…
ElevenLabs, a voice AI platform with $500M+ ARR, is expanding its use of Stripe to support growth, adopting usage-based billing for pay-as-you-go plans. Stripe now powers payments, subscriptions, mark…