**The problem it solves** Businesses need reliable, developer-friendly payment processing that works across payment methods, currencies, and geographies without building custom integrations with banks or acquirers. **What Stripe does** 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. **How it works** 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. **Who it's for** 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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