Starting today, we’re introducing a new release cadence and versioning system for all API endpoints that combines twice-yearly major updates with monthly feature enhancements. This set release schedule gives you the predictability and clarity that you need to better plan your engineering cycles.

We surveyed more than 2,000 subscription business leaders from around the world to understand how they are responding to the growing trend of pricing-as-a-product. We learned that businesses increasingly want to experiment with pricing models, but there is one thing in their way: their billing systems.

We’ve been testing a suite of new developer tools over the last year with thousands of users, including Slack and Notion. Today, we’re announcing that the first is available to all new users by default: Stripe Workbench, our new home for developers within the Dashboard that helps you debug, monitor, and grow your Stripe integration.

Global businesses have told us they’re interested in replicating the fraud prevention success seen in Europe by requesting 3DS. Last year, we had a front-row seat as several Stripe users chose to do exactly that, but the results in the US were very different from what we have seen in Europe.

In this post, we share three ways our usage-based product is unique in the market—integrating naturally alongside your other billing pathways, while scaling with you as your usage-based pricing ambitions grow.

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) methods, little-known less than a decade ago, now account for more than $300 billion in transactions worldwide. However, they tend to be priced at a premium, so our users wanted to know whether the financial benefits would offset the added costs. With that in mind, we ran an experiment to help Stripe businesses assess when and how to offer BNPLs.

In this blog post we’ll share an overview of Stripe’s database infrastructure and discuss the design and application of the Data Movement Platform.

Last month we announced a new Billing migration toolkit designed to address your top pain points: engineering resourcing, the risk of disruptive errors, and migration time. Here’s how the migration toolkit addresses each.

Businesses in the UK can now offer Pay by Bank. Accept payments in real time, and reduce payment costs with Stripe’s open banking–powered payment method.

Today Stripe is launching a new way of logging in that makes it possible to have both speed and security: one-click login using passkeys.