Stripe is a financial services platform that lets businesses accept online and in‑person payments, manage bank accounts, and set up custom billing models. It supports more than 135 currencies and payment methods and processes over $1.9 trillion in payments each year. What sets Stripe apart is its broad, flexible toolset that can be used alone or together. It offers card issuing, stablecoin and crypto movement, embedded payments, and no‑code components, all backed by a 99.999 % uptime record and extensive developer documentation.