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Stripe Developer Digest Sessions 2024

Gehrig — Thu, 09 May 2024 22:27:27 +0000

Stripe Sessions recap

Stripe Sessions 2024 was our biggest event yet—with over 6,000 attendees, 50 product launches, and one six-foot AI-manufactured marble statue. In case you missed it, you can watch all the talks on demand. Highlights include:

The opening keynote introduced a host of new products and features, including Stripe's new usage-based billing support.
Patrick Collison chatted with NVIDIA's Jensen Huang about leadership in the age of AI.
The developer keynote shared API design principles and new tools to speed up development.

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Updates

Manage usage-based billing: Stripe Billing now offers the Meters API to store, calculate, and charge customers on a per-usage basis.

Embed 17 new components for Connect: Drop HTML or React embedded components into your site for Connect onboarding, account management, payouts, and more.

Provision feature access: Stripe Billing added the Entitlements API, so you can check the status of a user’s subscription and see what features they can access.

Route payments to multiple payment processors: The new Vault and Forward API enables you to use Stripe products, such as the Payment Element, even if you process payments with other providers.

Import 3D Secure results: Use external 3D Secure authentication results within Stripe payments by passing card details and cryptogram directly to the Payment Intents API.

Unify multiple Stripe accounts into an organization: Request an invite to more easily manage multiple entities or product lines across multiple Stripe accounts with Organizations.

Collect in-person payments offline: Terminal iOS and Android SDKs now support offline mode (in beta) so you can save payment information at the time of sale during an unexpected outage.

Preview an invoice: Let customers modify, understand, and choose between available product packages by previewing an invoice prior to generation with the new createPreview method.

Stripe Insiders

Join Stripe Insiders, our new early access program, to try the latest products and provide direct feedback to the teams building them. Current betas include Stripe’s new developer tools—Workbench, Sandboxes, and Event Destinations—and Stripe’s extension for VS Code.

Community

Stripe Insiders’ community members suggested improved webhook filtering and an API to replay Stripe events.
We’re hosting a Dublin developer meetup on June 5—subscribe to Stripe’s event calendar to get notified of new meetups.
Mauro wrote about using WebdriverIO to automate iframe tests, like filling in a Stripe Elements checkout form.
Airbnb and Stripe shared the motivation and design behind the new open-source, machine learning development platform, Chronon.

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March Stripe Developer Digest

Gehrig — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:25:15 +0000

Workbench, our new developer tool to help you build, manage, and debug your Stripe integration, is now in public beta. Improve your daily workflows with the inspector (to show the underlying JSON for any object in the Dashboard), shell (for an integrated command-line environment), and other powerful features.

With Workbench, we wanted to give developers a universal pane that surfaces the right information at the right time to help you work faster. Now, from anywhere in the Dashboard you can quickly understand how you use the Stripe API and how it operates under the hood.

On April 4, we talked with engineers from Slack and Notion on the @stripedev YouTube channel to learn how to get the most out of Workbench. I hope you try it soon, and look forward to hearing your feedback.

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Updates

Create custom and dynamic cards: Stripe Issuing lets you programmatically create and manage custom cards with two new API resources, personalization design and physical bundle.

Request 3DS support for Checkout sessions: Add an extra layer of security by manually requesting 3D Secure authentication for payment, subscription, and setup mode sessions.

Build no-code invoicing and subscription automations: Create automations using triggers to perform actions, such as canceling a subscription after a grace period.

Reconnect Terminal readers automatically: Improve user experience with the autoReconnectOnUnexpectedDisconnect parameter.

Support Tap to Pay on iPhone in Australia and the United Kingdom: Accept in-person payments using only an iPhone—now available in five countries.

Create customer tax IDs programmatically: Add tax IDs to customer and account objects via API in addition to the ability to create account tax IDs in the Stripe Dashboard.

Make async requests in the beta release of stripe-python: The stripe-python beta channel now has built-in support for async control flow, backed by the httpx or aiohttp http libraries.

Offer Apple Pay Later: Businesses in the United States can now use Apple Pay Later to support installment payments.

Add Link as a payment method to Android: Support Link, Stripe's accelerated checkout, in the PaymentSheet by turning on the payment method settings.

Receive instant payouts in Australia: Instant payouts are now available for Stripe accounts in Australia, Canada, the United States, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.

Community

Learn how to retrieve additional Stripe API results in a single request using the expand parameter
Send emails triggered by Stripe webhook events with Loops
Handle custom Connect verification requirement updates to keep your accounts active
Build a SaaS business with Stripe subscriptions using a Django boiler plate
Read how the internet economy is changing in Stripe’s annual letter
Dig into Ledger, Stripe’s system for tracking and validating money movement

Stay connected

February Stripe Developer Digest

Gehrig — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:40:14 +0000

Stripe Sessions, our biggest user conference yet, is coming to San Francisco this April. Join us and fellow members of the developer community for two packed days of learning and collaboration.

Sessions is a perfect opportunity to get hands-on developer training with the latest Stripe tools like Workbench, hear new product announcements, and watch ambitious live demos. While there’s so much to look forward to, the chat between Nvidia's Jensen Huang and our own Patrick Collison is top of my list.

I hope you can make it—make sure to use the code Developer50 for 50% off your conference pass.

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Updates

Get answers from Stripe Docs AI: Ask Stripe Docs questions and get GPT-powered responses—available for all logged-in users.

Use Connect onboarding components: Connect account onboarding components are now available for React or HTML embeds to onboard customers in 46 supported countries.

Set Issuing card PINs: All cards issued by Stripe Issuing now have PINs; set a card's initial PIN during card creation with the pin[encrypted_number] field.

Reach Swedish customers with Swish: We now support Swish, Sweden's most popular finance app, as a real-time payment method. You can turn on automatic currency conversion to always have the latest payment methods optimized for your customers.

Simplify end-of-month billing cycles: The Subscription Create API billing_cycle_anchor_config parameter sets the billing cycle anchor by using only the desired month and day. You can now set billing dates during short months or, for instance, an upcoming leap day with ease.

Instantiate StripeClient in the Python SDK: Stripe-python v8.0.0 introduced StripeClient, upgrading from a single global configuration to enable multiple thread-safe instances.

Community

Pragmatic Engineering's Gergely Orosz released part 2 of Stripe's engineering culture.
Create a RAG app using OpenAI, Pinecone, and Llama Index to ask questions from Stripe Docs.
Svix offered a thorough review of Stripe webhooks documentation.
@iamtouha added Stripe support to their open-source Lucia auth and NextJS template.

Stay connected

December Stripe Developer Digest

Gehrig — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:12:53 +0000

Climate orders

You can now preorder permanent carbon removal with just a few clicks in the Dashboard or a single API call. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that the world will need to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. To enable you to build solutions that help scale carbon removal, we’re introducing the Climate Orders API. Whether you’re building a feature in your checkout flow or a full-scale marketplace, you and your customers can now contribute to carbon removal. Give it a try and let us know what you build.

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Updates

Authenticate Stripe accounts to your service with oAuth or restricted keys: Stripe Apps has added support for OAuth and restricted keys, making it easier to have your products support Stripe accounts.

Optimize risk and understand revenue recovery: The Stripe Dashboard has added Radar risk controls and a Revenue Recovery dashboard to learn about your involuntary churn, how it compares to industry benchmarks, and recommended improvements.

Manage tax registrations via API: Create, list, and update the jurisdictions in which you or your customers are registered to collect tax with the Tax Registrations API.

Check the status of a Checkout Session: Understand and filter if a session is open, expired, or complete using the status parameter on the Checkout Sessions list endpoint.

Community

Jacob Evans from Clerk, a set of prebuilt authentication and user management components, shared an example using Clerk’s metadata to manage a user’s payment status for your application.
GitHub’s automatic secret scanning is being rolled out for popular npm packages, including Stripe.
See an overview of how businesses performed over Black Friday and Cyber Monday on Stripe.

Stay connected

November Stripe Developer Digest

Gehrig — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:34:20 +0000

Embedded Checkout

You can now embed Stripe Checkout on your website. And while we may be biased, the Stripe team is stoked about this release.

When we relaunched Checkout in 2019, we moved to a Stripe-hosted payment page. This allowed us to build features directly into the experience and offer payment methods such as Apple Pay without any setup. However, some customers would like to avoid redirecting away from their website.

Today, you can get all the built-in benefits of Checkout while embedding it directly into your website. Take a look with some whimsical examples of embedded Checkout. As always, we’d love any feedback about the product experience!

Updates

Increase a previously authorized amount: Adjust the authorized amount of a confirmed PaymentIntent to add a tip or update an initially estimated price using overcapture or incremental authorization.

Capture multiple payments from a single PaymentIntent: PaymentIntent now supports multicapture to capture fractions of the total authorized amount as parts of an order are fulfilled. For instance, to support orders with multiple shipments.

Extend payment authorizations up to 31 days: The default authorization period for online card payment is seven days; you can now extend authorizations to hold customer funds for longer durations as your business requires.

Manage multiple payment methods sets: Programmatically handle sets of payment methods using payment method configurations to display different payment methods to your customers.

Use 16 new payment methods with the Mobile Payment Element: The Mobile Payment Element added new local payment methods for iOS and Android. View the complete list of supported payment methods.

Test Issuing integrations with eight new endpoints: Test the complete life cycle of Stripe Issuing cards with the addition of API test-mode authorization support to simulate complex flows from card creation through transaction refunds.

Monitor Issuing tokens with the Token API: The Issuing Token API provides access to network tokens to track card provisioning and check for errors or fraudulent activity.

Use types with the Python SDK: Strengthen Python integrations with type annotations using the stripe-python library starting in v6.8.0b3 through the beta channel.

Community

Hidetaka Okamoto shared how to work with Stripe samples in a browser using GitHub Codespaces.
If you’re using webhooks, Stephen Samra suggested best practices on how to use Stripe webhooks with Express.
The team at Mintlify examined how Stripe creates the best documentation.

Stay connected

September Stripe Developer Digest

Gehrig — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 22:25:56 +0000

Prevent card testing attacks

We've deployed machine learning models to help prevent this activity by default for those using Stripe’s Payment Element. Since launching these models over a week ago, we've already seen them prevent attacks on thousands of sites and millions of unwanted transactions.

Our models, trained with Stripe Radar, analyze transactions at confirmation time and present card testers with a CAPTCHA when interacting with your checkout. Learn more about best practices to further prevent disputes and fraud.

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Updates

Explore an Issuing and Treasury demo: Interact with a live banking-as-a-service demo using card issuing, payouts, and more, and dive deeper into its sample code on GitHub.

Add external payment methods to the Payment Element: Use Stripe’s Payment Element to display custom, external payment methods you’ve integrated with outside of Stripe.

Handle multiple payment methods configurations: Define the payment methods that you display to your customers for specific checkout scenarios, including one-time versus recurring payment flows or high-value transactions.

Embed the Express Checkout Element: The Express Checkout Element gives you a single integration for accepting payments through one-click payment buttons.

Accept USD bank transfers: Stripe enables the acceptance of USD bank transfers by providing a virtual bank account, managing overpayment and underpayment issues, and automatically processing payments.

Transfer customer data to a new Stripe account: Migrate data directly from the Dashboard to securely transfer customer and payment data between Stripe accounts.

Build low- and no-code Salesforce integrations: Connect Stripe products to Salesforce Service, Experience, and Sales Clouds using Apex or Salesforce Flow with the new Stripe for Salesforce Platform app.

Offer more payment methods on Android: The Android SDK PaymentSheet now supports additional payment methods for SetupIntents and PaymentIntents.

Modify product features for the pricing table by API: A new features parameter lets you read and modify the features list currently seen on the embeddable pricing table.

Change ACH Direct Debit speed: Selectively enable faster settlement or reduce fees with the preferred_settlement_speed parameter on a per-transaction basis.

Community

Deploy a SaaS product on AWS: Follow the Next.js SaaS tutorial using App Router, Clerk, AWS DynamoDB and Stripe to walk through testing, planning for real users, handling failed payments, and best practices for using AWS resources.
Create a product checkout with Vue: Learn how to set up a simple product page using vue-stripe.
Build AI-powered SaaS: The post guides you through building and deploying a SaaS using NextJS, OpenAI, Stripe, TypeScript, Tailwind, and Vercel.
Offer dynamic pricing with Svelte: This video provides a step-by-step guide on integrating Stripe with SvelteKit using dynamic pricing into a SvelteKit project.
Use Capacitor with Terminal and Identity: Capacitor, an open-source native runtime for cross-platform web apps, now includes added Stripe Terminal and Identity plugins.
Run Stripe Terminal with Ruby on Rails: Pay, a Ruby on Rails payments engine, has been updated to support the latest Stripe API version and introduces in-person payments with Stripe Terminal.
Dig into a Stripe with Flutter example: The latest release of the Stripe Flutter SDK has made a new payments example available and brought the SDK up-to-date with the React Native SDK.

Stay connected

August Stripe Developer Digest

Gehrig — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 17:40:50 +0000

Dynamic payment methods

Adapting and staying on top of quickly evolving payment methods can be overwhelming. That's why we’ve added dynamic payment methods to our PaymentIntents and SetupIntents API. As our new default configuration, this change will allow you to let Stripe handle payment methods that are displayed and configure payment methods directly from your Dashboard, saving you from hardcoding and testing these properties in your code.

We think it’ll simplify your integration, reduce the risk of payment failure and errors, and better future-proof your systems. Additionally, we made tools to help you understand why certain payment methods aren't available for a transaction and simulate different scenarios. You’ll even be able to run A/B payment method tests and set custom targeting rules without any code changes. Upgrade to our latest API version to try out dynamic payment methods and take advantage of these features.

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Updates

Deploy Stripe Data Pipeline globally: Data Pipeline is now available globally to connect Stripe with Snowflake and Amazon Redshift data warehouses.

Offer no-cost orders and coupons for “free” purchases: Checkout, Payment Links, and pricing tables can accept no-cost orders for $0 or with 100% off coupons.

Limit customers to one subscription: When using Checkout, Payment Links, or pricing tables, you can now limit customers to a single subscription and remind them during the checkout process.

Allow alternative currency payouts in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia: Businesses using Connect in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia can now enable alternative currency payouts to let users pay themselves out in a non-local currency.

Have immutable Stripe Billing subscription metadata: Subscription metadata is now locked to subscription invoices at the time of invoice creation and displayed on the invoice within a new field, subscription_details.metadata, for stronger guarantees and referential integrity within your systems.

Backdate invoices with an effective date: Invoices and credit notes can now use an effective_at date field to sync over historical records or match the effective date of a delayed contract.

Collect tax for streaming media: Stripe Tax introduced tax codes and calculations for businesses selling audio and video streaming services.

Reverse transactions and issue refunds with tax included: Stripe Tax API offers a new transaction reversals endpoint to issue refunds for the total amount, including taxes.

Access card network dispute codes: The Stripe Disputes API now surfaces the underlying card network dispute reason code, enabling you to provide a more targeted counter to disputes.

Reduce latency with Financial Connections prefetch: The prefetch parameter retrieves necessary data upon account creation, like balance or account information, that would otherwise require an additional API call.

SDKs

Pin SDKs to the latest API version: PHP, Python, Ruby, Node, Java, .net, and Go SDKs now use the latest API version as default. Updating your integration and setting it to be compatible with API version 2023-08-16 is recommended.

Instantiate Java apps using StripeClient: Java SDK version 23.0.0 added support for using StripeClient, joining Node and PHP SDKs. Instances are thread-safe, immutable, and provide access to the Stripe REST API in a single method.

Internet Explorer 11 support dropped by Stripe.js: Using Stripe.js in Internet Explorer 11 will now display a warning message. Supported browsers include Chrome 38+, Safari 10.1+, Firefox 29+, Edge 15+, and Opera 25+.

Stay connected

July Stripe Developer Digest

Gehrig — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 20:55:26 +0000

Stripe Tax for Platforms

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Updates

Manage Stripe Tax for subscriptions: The new automatic_tax parameter for the List Subscriptions endpoint lets you turn tax for subscriptions on or off, making it easier to filter transactions that have automatic tax collection for reporting purposes.
Mobile support to collect payment details before Intent: You can now collect payment details before creating a PaymentIntent or SetupIntent using the Android, iOS, React Native SDKs, and Mobile Payment Element. Use this to confirm payment server-side or to support a multi-processor implementation.
Recovery automations for Stripe Billing are available in beta: Recovery automations are a no-code tool to configure complex revenue recovery use cases, such as customizing dunning flows and scheduling notifications on subscription and quote expiration. Get started with a few automation recipes.
Cross-border payouts add Pakistan and Kazakhstan: US-based Connect platforms can now pay out to connected accounts in 118 countries.

Resources

AI Day: Stripe recently hosted an AI Day featuring talks on AI developer tools, a Radar assistant demo, and speakers from Anthropic, Zapier, Runway, Replit, and more.
Common API design patterns at Stripe: Browse a four-part series on API design best practices for crafting a thoughtful API experience, from naming conventions to a preference for enums.
Type checking at Stripe podcast: Stripe engineer Jake Zimmerman works on Sorbet, an open-source project for Type checking in Ruby, and joined the Changelog podcast to discuss type checking at scale.
Use Deno and Fresh to build a store: Jump into a three-part Deno walkthrough to display store items, shopping cart logic, and state management.
Take recurring payments with SvelteKit: Learn how to set up Stripe Billing in a SvelteKit project quickly.
Create a Stripe Issuing card management dashboard: Retool shows us how to use their no-code tools to create a customer card management dashboard.
Collect payments on Android with Google Pay and Stripe: The Android Developers channel covered how to implement mobile payments and offered a peek at Stripe’s upcoming developer tool, Workbench.
Implement usage-based billing with Stripe: OpenMeter provided a helpful tutorial for getting started with usage-based billing.
RedwooodJS-Stripe reaches v1: The RedwoodJS-Stripe library has hooks and providers and includes a demo store, cart, and Stripe Checkout in a single command.

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— The Stripe team

June Stripe Developer Digest

Gehrig — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 16:53:09 +0000

Tap to Pay on Android

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Tap to Pay on Android is now generally available in the US, the UK, and Singapore, and it’s in beta in all other Terminal markets . With Tap to Pay you can accept in-person payments with a compatible iPhone or Android device and the Stripe Terminal SDK using React Native, Java, Kotlin, Swift, or Objective-C—no extra hardware required. It’s ideal if you’re looking to offer contactless payments in more places. Check out our video and blog tutorial to get started with Android.

Stay updated

Customer portal adds deep links: You can now help your users navigate desired actions, like updating their subscription or payment method, in the customer portal with deep links .

Stripe Apps install links: Stripe Apps added install links to provide an option for installation outside the Stripe App Marketplace. Use this OAuth-like experience to keep users within your site or app with redirect and state handling.

Cash App Pay payment method: Businesses in the United States can now accept one-time and recurring payments with digital wallet Cash App Pay .

Sigma supports metadata queries for Billing tables: Sigma now includes the ability to query Billing metadata for subscription schedules, schedule phases, subscription items, and schedule phase items.

Issuing can be tried in test mode: In the US, the UK, and European Economic Area, you can now try Issuing in test mode for physical and virtual card programs.

Learn

Dive into the Stripe payments object: Understand the role and capabilities of the Stripe payments object which facilitates payments.
Build a Next.js membership site: Follow a step-by-step guide for a membership app using Amplify, Stripe, and Next.js.
Stripe Checkout speed run: Watch a tutorial on setting up Stripe Checkout in under five minutes with Ruby.
Take the Svelte-stripe online course: Josh Nussbaum from svelte-stripe has launched an online course on creating a SaaS with SvelteKit .
Create a shopping cart with Laravel Cashier and Vue: See how to build a shopping cart using Laravel Cashier and Vue .
Integrate Stripe in Ionic Vue JS App: Learn how to integrate Stripe into an Ionic Vue JS app using Capacitor and NodeJS.
Create GraphQL checkout sessions with edge resolvers: Discover how to integrate the Stripe SDK with edge resolvers and Grafbase to have a unified GraphQL API.

Community

Capacitor-stripe v4.2.0: The latest release of Capacitor-stripe introduces native support for Stripe Identity.
Flutter Stripe v9.0.0 and 9.2.0: Flutter Stripe has released version 9.0.0, which includes better support for tap-to-pay cards and Apple Watch.
Laravel Cashier Stripe v14.12.2: The latest version of Laravel Cashier Stripe , v14.12.2, focuses on improving the handling of the “payment_method.automatically_updated” webhook.
Pay for Ruby on Rails: Pay , a payments engine for Ruby on Rails, has made it easier to build custom webhooks.
Stripe payment flow diagram tool: Erasure’s DiagramGPT is a neat tool that can generate API diagrams from code, like Stripe’s payment flow documentation.

Stay connected

What would you like to see more (or less) of? Let us know by replying to this email. If you have questions or comments, or need help with code, we’re here to help via email , or on Discord , Twitter , and Stack Overflow . View our code samples on GitHub.

— The Stripe team

May Stripe Developer Digest

Gehrig — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:49:35 +0000

Highlights from Stripe Sessions

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Roughly 3,000 founders, engineers, business leaders, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joined us in San Francisco for this year’s Stripe Sessions, which covered a host of Stripe updates and announcements . In the keynote , we demoed Connect embedded components ( 30:40 ) and the ability to use natural language to write SQL in Stripe Sigma ( 48:33 ).

We also introduced the new Stripe developer experience with Stripe Workbench ( 57:31 ), a developer tool that lets you iterate, debug, and grow your integration. If you’d like an early look and a chance to shape the Workbench roadmap, join the beta program .

Stay updated

New Tax API for all payments: Calculate tax in your custom payment flow on Stripe transactions or for any other payment processor.
Private beta for Stripe Issuing charge cards: Stripe Issuing added support for charge cards, letting platforms provide their customers with access to credit through physical and virtual cards.
Custom domains for Payment Links: Use a custom domain for Payment Links , configured in the Stripe Dashboard or Stripe API.
Payment Links embeddable buy button: Customize and embed a buy button for your payment link on your website.
Specify Checkout subscription billing start date: Set a billing cycle anchor to a fixed UNIX timestamp in Checkout and use proration_behavior to charge a prorated invoice.
Afterpay adds monthly installments and increased transaction limits: US businesses can now use buy now, pay later payment method Afterpay for monthly installments and transactions up to $4,000.
Connect embedded components now localized in 47 countries: Payments, payment details, and payouts components now support a locale parameter to offer local language support.

Learn

Build a creator platform using Ruby: In this multi-part series, discover how to build and monetize creator platforms, such as newsletters, using Stripe Connect.
Lessons learned from building Stripe Radar: Learn from Stripe engineer Ryan Drapeau about the key decisions that go into building real-time fraud protection with machine learning algorithms.
Diving into Dev Containers: Hear about the benefits of Dev Containers, explore setup configurations, and share tips for maximizing container usage in GitHub CodeSpaces.
Jumpstart your HTTP APIs with Fern: Tune in to a live session with Fern’s cofounder Danny Sheridan to discuss the open-source toolkit to simplify and automate API creation.

Stay connected

— The Stripe team

April Stripe Developer Digest

Gehrig — Mon, 01 May 2023 17:41:36 +0000

Analyzing billions of transactions for fraud

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Continuing our collective AI obsession, Stripe engineer Ryan Drapeau penned How we built it: Stripe Radar. This blog post is a well-crafted deep dive into the challenges of fraud detection and how Stripe uses machine learning to analyze a transaction in fewer than 100 milliseconds. If you’d like to have more conversations about AI, check out Stripe Sessions, our annual conference, on May 3 in San Francisco.

Stay updated

Use buy now, pay later methods in more places: Support for buy now, pay later payment methods is available in more countries. Klarna is ready to activate in Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, and New Zealand. Affirm is now available in Canada.
Display your buy now, pay later options: You can now use the Payment Method Messaging Element to show which buy now, pay later payment methods you support to increase conversion.
Manage Affirm and Afterpay disputes programmatically: You can now be notified of disputes and submit evidence to challenge them via the Disputes API and Stripe Dashboard.
Show local currencies in Checkout and Payment Links: For businesses in the US and Canada, you can turn on automatic currency conversion to show pricing in local currencies for 30 countries.
Customize Stripe Issuing SMS fraud alert rules: You can now modify Stripe Issuing SMS fraud alert rules to decide which transactions require additional verification.
Accept in-person payments in Australia: Stripe Terminal and Tap to Pay for Android are now supported in Australia.
Create payment links on the go: The Stripe Dashboard iOS app added support to create new payment links.

Learn

Update to Stripe Node SDK v12: The Stripe Node v12 release includes version pinning and support for Cloudflare Workers.
Add custom fields in Checkout: Learn how to add drop-down select boxes, text, and numeric inputs to let customers enter custom data in Checkout.
Use the integration builder to accept a payment with Checkout: In our Checkout 101 series, see how to use the integration builder with Node, Go, Java, and Python.
Manage Stripe Connect onboarding with Ruby on Rails: Part 5 of the Connect Series walks through how to onboard your users in a Ruby on Rails app.
Build a crypto gift card store: This community tutorial uses Stripe with React and other tools to offer gift cards backed by cryptocurrency.

Stay connected

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— The Stripe team

March Stripe Developer Digest

Gehrig — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:43:46 +0000

GPT-powered Stripe Docs

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Like many, Stripe is exploring how to best use AI. Machine learning is already built into many of our tools, like Radar for fraud prevention—but we’re in awe of how rapidly this technology is accelerating. In early January, the team got access to OpenAI’s GPT-4. As one does, we had an internal hackathon to understand how to use it.

Enter GPT-powered Stripe Docs. You can sign up for the developer preview to see how AI can help you learn and use Stripe; we think you’ll love it.

Stay updated

Data Pipeline now supports all Amazon Redshift versions: Data Pipeline expanded support for all versions of Redshift, including legacy DS2/DC2 instances.

Fresher data with faster Data Pipeline exports: New Stripe data now loads in your connected data warehouse within nine hours from when it is generated. Check how fast your data is loaded by viewing the “Loaded” column in your table.

Terminal locations now require city and state field validation in several countries: Different countries require varied information from readers. New location creation and update requests containing invalid cities or states within specific countries will now fail with an error. Existing locations in affected countries will require updating in the coming months.

Mobile SDK updates: The Stripe Android SDK and iOS SDK had multiple releases in March, which include various enhancements like using Cash App Pay as a payment method and the ability to check card brands using Stripe.possibleCardBrands.

Learn

Explore four tools to speed up your workflow: Explore CJ’s recommendations for speeding up your workflow with Stripe, featuring Stripe CLI, Stripe Shell, Stripe for VS Code extension, and Codegen—essential tools to boost your productivity and streamline development.
Accept Apple Pay and Google Pay in React Native: Hear how you can enable digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay in your React Native applications.
Configure payments with Stripe Checkout using Python: Dive in to this Checkout 101 with Python episode and learn how to accept payments quickly using example code and customize Stripe Checkout to fit your brand.
Use Stripe Payment Links with embeddable buy buttons: Stripe generates code for an embeddable button for your payment link to use on your website in HTML or as a React component. Learn how to customize and use this new button.
Get the latest Stripe Checkout and Payment Links updates: Catch Jonathan Steele and Cecil as they share the latest features in Stripe Checkout and Payment Links. Stay informed and use these powerful tools to enhance your online payment experience.

Community

Flutter_stripe releases v9.0.0: With v9.0.0, the Flutter library for Stripe is now at parity with its React Native counterpart, enabling Tap to Pay, better digital wallet support, and a litany of updates.
Laravel Cashier Stripe moves to v0.14.9.0: Multiple updates were added to the Cashier package in the past month with support for the new Payment Element, a SyncCustomerDetails job, and bug fixes.
Ngx Stripe lets you display Issuing card details: Stripe Issuing card elements can now be used to display card details in your Angular application with PCI compliance.
Messaging protocols and standards insights: Join Clemens Vasters, principal architect at Microsoft, and Cecil to cover the importance of messaging interoperability, the AMQP standard, and the emerging CloudEvents standard.
Opportunities through community and culture: In this interview, Cecil chats with Leilah Squires, developer advocate at Bitrise, about her journey as an iOS developer, the influence of Caribbean culture on her work, authenticity, and her role at Bitrise. Leilah also highlights her community involvement and its impact.
Discover Rentalo from the Caribbean Developer Conference: Join Cecil’s chat with Cesar Mejía Peralta, founder of Rentalo, to learn how the rental management and customer engagement platform uses Stripe to ensure a seamless payment experience.
Empowering your career through developer communities: Watch Andres Pineda, senior software engineer at Shopify, and Cecil discuss developer communities’ critical role in personal and professional growth.
** Embeddable UI Elements Masterclass:** CJ joined Permit.io’s masterclass on embedded UI components, to chat about how, in general as a developer, you can consider and work with prebuilt UI components.

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