str market mapBusinesses need reliable, developer-friendly payment processing that works across payment methods, currencies, and geographies without building custom integrations with banks or acquirers.
Stripe is a US-based global payments and financial infrastructure platform founded in 2010 and headquartered in South San Francisco, serving businesses from startups to large enterprises across many industries.
The core capability is developer-integrated online payment processing, accepting 135-plus currencies and payment methods through a single API covering cards, local methods, wallets, and buy-now-pay-later. Beyond payments, the platform includes Stripe Billing for subscriptions and usage-based billing, Stripe Connect for marketplace payment splitting and payouts to multiple parties, Stripe Radar for fraud detection, Stripe Tax for tax calculation, Stripe Terminal for in-person payments, and Stripe Issuing for card programs, integrated via SDKs, prebuilt checkout components, or no-code payment links. Hospitality and travel platforms use it as an underlying processor.
Developers, startups, enterprises, and platforms of any size needing global payment acceptance, subscription billing, marketplace payouts, or embedded financial services, including STR and hospitality platforms, rather than an STR-specific product.
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