Stripe Billing | Recurring Payments & Subscription Management (2024)

The Stripe Billing API is easy to integrate with existing websites, mobile apps, and CRM systems. Developers can use our composable API to get started quickly or design customized subscription logic and pricing models.

Accept any payment method with our unified API—no one-off integrations or separate contracts required. Learn why more than 70% of recurring revenue businesses are planning to add new payment methods in the State of subscription and billing management report.

Accept all major debit and credit card payments in 135+ currencies. If needed, enable 3D Secure for any payment.

Support more than just cards using local payment methods, which you can activate from the Dashboard with aclick.

Stripe Billing is a single solution that modernizes all billing workflows so you can accelerate and scale growth.

Stripe Billing is designed to integrate seamlessly into your existing quote-to-cash workflow. Integrate with your CRM software, and configure and send custom quotes to prospects. Use invoices to automate accounts receivables and manage customer billing over the entire lifecycle. View detailed financial and revenue reports directly from the Dashboard or sync data into your ERP or data warehouse.

Scale your business by making it easy for customers to sign up wherever they are. Integrate with your existing eCommerce platform or provide a customizable interface for displaying subscriptions and plans. Empower customers to self-manage subscription payment methods, upgrades, and downgrades in a secure, prebuilt customer portal.

Unify your sales channels with a single billing system that connects your CRM, order management software, reseller billing platform, ERP, accounting, and other systems.

Automate every part of recurring relationships—from managing customer events to retrying failed payments at the ideal time.

Nearly a quarter of churn is involuntary—it’s caused by missed payments or declined cards. Stripe’s recovery tools help businesses recover 57% of failed recurring payments on average, and businesses using our Smart Retries recover 11% more revenue than those retrying failed payments on a set schedule. Stripe’s recovery tools help our users recover $3.42 billion in revenue last year.

Stripe uses machine learning to choose optimal times to retry failed payments which may increase the chance of success. 90% of the cards used on the Stripe network have been seen more than once.

Enable automated emails for failed or overdue payments. Plus give your customers a secure, one-click option for updating their payment method in the hosted recovery page.

Stripe works directly with card networks (where available) to update payment details when a card expires or is replaced.

Monitor and analyze subscription payment failures and recovery rates, measure the effectiveness of all recovery efforts in a single view, and investigate trends using downloadable reports directly from the Dashboard.

Use Stripe as a system of record for the customer lifecycle: manage important events such as automatically provisioning services for new subscribers or sending reminders for renewals. You can also enable your customers to self-manage their subscriptions with the customer portal.

Automatically notify other systems of lifecycle events, including new subscriptions, payments, and cancellations.

Stripe automatically prorates billing when any plan changes occur.

Configure rules to automatically or manually renew customers’ subscriptions.

Allow your customers to self-manage their subscriptions by sharing a link to a secure, prebuilt customer portal.

Focus on your product and customer experience and let Stripe optimize and automate order flows, billing logic, subscription management, invoicing, payments, revenue recovery, and more.

• Online checkout
• Pricing table
• Payment Links
• Hosted invoices
• Point-of-sales purchase
• Adaptive Acceptance
• Custom quotes
• CRM integrations
• CPQ integrations
• Free trials

• Subscriptions
• Usage-based billing (metering)
• Customer portal
• Credit notes
• Billing for platforms
• Subscription schedules
• Pricing models
• Coupons and discounts
• Prorations
• Sales contract schedules
• Installments
• Subscription backdating
• Test clocks
• Automatic tax calculation
• Invoice compliance
• Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS)
• E-mandates for recurring transactions
• Subscription cancellations compliance
• Strong Customer Authentication (SCA)

• Credit cards
• Wallets
• Bank redirects
• Bank debits and transfers
• Out-of-band settlement
• Reminder emails
• Email log
• Failed payment reminders
• Expired card updates
• Revenue recovery analytics
• Hosted recovery page
• Cancellation surveys

• SaaS and Billing analytics
• Accounts receivable aging
• SQL-based reporting
• Data warehouse sync
• Tax reporting
• Revenue Recognition
• Automated reconciliation
• Connector for NetSuite
• Accounting integrations

Businesses often cobble something together to support an initial launch, but underestimate the complexity and costs down the line. A homegrown solution needs to be continuously maintained to support new product launches, business models, pricing experiments, global expansion, changes in regulatory requirements, and a host of other challenges as business grows.

Stripe Billing offers the functionality you need to quickly get started today, but with the flexibility and features to support you at scale, so you can focus on building your business.