category:
  id: product-launches
  label: Product launches
  description: Notable Stripe products and major platform capabilities, with previews and general availability distinguished.
  order: 4
events:
  - id: product-2026-stripe-database-preview
    title: Stripe previews Stripe Database
    date: 2026-04-29
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: preview
    summary: At Sessions 2026, Stripe previewed a managed, hosted, read-only Postgres database that can expose real-time Stripe data after one-click Dashboard or CLI setup.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New product preview
      - label: Access
        value: Preview; not represented as generally available
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - sessions
      - data
      - developer-tools
      - preview
    source_ids:
      - source-28eaa414dc9531c6df9d
  - id: product-2026-checkout-studio-preview
    title: Stripe previews Checkout studio
    date: 2026-04-29
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: preview
    summary: Stripe previewed Checkout studio, a visual checkout configuration and optimization product with an AI assistant, transaction replay, A/B testing, and personalized recommendations.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New product preview
      - label: Availability
        value: Preview
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - sessions
      - checkout
      - ai
      - preview
    source_ids:
      - source-28eaa414dc9531c6df9d
  - id: product-2026-link-agent-wallet
    title: Link launches a wallet for AI agents
    date: 2026-04-29
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched Link's agent wallet, allowing an authorized agent to pay with a one-time-use card or Shared Payment Token while the customer retains approvals and purchase visibility.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New product capability
      - label: Control model
        value: Customer approvals, purchase visibility, and task-specific credentials
    metrics:
      - label: Link users
        value: 250 million+
        context: Stripe's reported global Link user base at launch
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Link
    tags:
      - sessions
      - agentic-commerce
      - wallet
      - ai
    source_ids:
      - source-28eaa414dc9531c6df9d
      - source-10f2721c9aa4fdff57df
  - id: product-2026-streaming-payments-announced
    title: Stripe introduces streaming payments
    date: 2026-04-29
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: announced
    summary: Stripe introduced streaming payments for AI-native usage, combining Metronome metering with stablecoin micropayments on Tempo so businesses can collect payment as value is delivered.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New business-model infrastructure
      - label: Components
        value: Metronome usage tracking and Tempo stablecoin settlement
      - label: Availability
        value: Announced at Sessions; broad availability was not stated
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Metronome
      - Tempo
    tags:
      - sessions
      - billing
      - stablecoins
      - ai
    source_ids:
      - source-aee875a73e3c1d937190
      - source-28eaa414dc9531c6df9d
  - id: product-2025-agentic-commerce-suite
    title: Stripe launches the Agentic Commerce Suite
    date: 2025-12-11
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched a single integration for product discovery, checkout, payments, and fraud controls inside AI applications, extending its earlier agentic-commerce work into a named suite.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New product suite
      - label: Initial scope
        value: Businesses selling through supported AI applications
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - agentic-commerce
      - ai
      - checkout
    source_ids:
      - source-4519a665c1d7940b43ec
  - id: product-2025-agentic-commerce-protocol
    title: Stripe and OpenAI release the Agentic Commerce Protocol
    date: 2025-09-29
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: released
    summary: Stripe and OpenAI released the open Agentic Commerce Protocol and used it to power Instant Checkout in ChatGPT, establishing a shared interface for AI agents and merchants.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: Open protocol and production integration
      - label: Initial surface
        value: Instant Checkout in ChatGPT
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - OpenAI
    tags:
      - agentic-commerce
      - open-protocol
      - checkout
      - ai
    source_ids:
      - source-717a6265588eea28b44d
  - id: product-2025-tempo-introduced
    title: Stripe and Paradigm introduce Tempo
    date: 2025-09-04
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: introduced
    summary: Stripe and Paradigm introduced Tempo, a Layer 1 blockchain incubated for scalable, low-cost stablecoin payments rather than general-purpose crypto workloads.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: Incubated infrastructure project
      - label: Network
        value: Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for payments
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Paradigm
      - Tempo
    tags:
      - stablecoins
      - blockchain
      - payments-infrastructure
    source_ids:
      - source-c3730e9fc55ad7e43559
  - id: product-2025-global-payouts
    title: Stripe launches Global Payouts
    date: 2025-05-07
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched Global Payouts so businesses could pay customers, contractors, and other third parties using an email address without requiring those recipients to become Stripe sellers.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New payout product
      - label: Initial positioning
        value: Third-party payouts using hosted, no-code, or API paths
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    related_events:
      - payment-2026-global-payouts-expanded-preview
    tags:
      - sessions
      - payouts
      - money-movement
    source_ids:
      - source-ec41ec00724370badaa6
  - id: product-2025-managed-payments
    title: Stripe announces Managed Payments
    date: 2025-05-07
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: announced
    summary: Stripe announced Managed Payments, a merchant-of-record offering intended to handle global taxes, fraud, disputes, fulfillment obligations, and market entry for digital businesses.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New merchant-of-record product
      - label: Availability
        value: Announced at Sessions; the source did not claim universal availability
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - sessions
      - merchant-of-record
      - global-commerce
    source_ids:
      - source-ec41ec00724370badaa6
  - id: product-2025-orchestration
    title: Stripe launches Orchestration
    date: 2025-05-07
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched Orchestration for enterprises to configure, manage, compare, and optimize payments across multiple processors from the Stripe Dashboard.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: Multiprocessor payments product
      - label: Audience
        value: Enterprises with complex payment-provider stacks
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - sessions
      - orchestration
      - enterprise
      - interoperability
    source_ids:
      - source-ec41ec00724370badaa6
  - id: product-2025-payments-foundation-model
    title: Stripe unveils the Payments Foundation Model
    date: 2025-05-07
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: announced and deploying
    summary: Stripe unveiled a foundation model trained on tens of billions of transactions for reuse across fraud, authorization, and other payment tasks, with early deployment improving card-testing detection.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: Shared AI model for payments
      - label: Rollout
        value: Announced for deployment across the payments suite
    metrics:
      - label: Training corpus
        value: Tens of billions of transactions
      - label: Detection lift
        value: 64%
        context: Reported increase in card-testing attack detection for large businesses in early results
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - sessions
      - ai
      - fraud
      - payments-intelligence
    source_ids:
      - source-ec41ec00724370badaa6
  - id: product-2025-stablecoin-financial-accounts
    title: Stripe launches stablecoin financial accounts
    date: 2025-05-07
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: rollout announced
    summary: Stripe announced stablecoin-powered financial accounts for businesses in 101 countries, initially supporting USDC and Bridge's USDB with fiat and crypto receiving rails.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: Treasury expansion
      - label: Initial assets
        value: USDC and USDB
      - label: Availability
        value: Rollout announced for 101 countries; country-level timing may vary
    metrics:
      - label: Countries
        value: "101"
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Bridge
    tags:
      - sessions
      - stablecoins
      - treasury
      - global-commerce
    source_ids:
      - source-ec41ec00724370badaa6
  - id: product-2024-multiprocessor-interoperability
    title: Stripe announces multiprocessor product interoperability
    date: 2024-04-24
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: announced
    summary: Stripe announced that its Optimized Checkout Suite, Billing, and Radar would become usable by companies that process payments with other providers, a major change from its earlier integrated-stack requirement.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: Platform strategy and product availability change
      - label: Products
        value: Optimized Checkout Suite, Billing, and Radar
      - label: Availability
        value: Future availability announced at Sessions
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - sessions
      - interoperability
      - enterprise
      - multiprocessor
    source_ids:
      - source-ca257159d5fc6d64bd7a
  - id: product-2024-radar-assistant
    title: Stripe launches Radar Assistant
    date: 2024-04-24
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched Radar Assistant to draft fraud rules from natural-language prompts and test their likely fraud and false-positive effects against historical payments.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: AI-powered product capability
      - label: Product
        value: Stripe Radar
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - sessions
      - radar
      - ai
      - fraud
    source_ids:
      - source-ca257159d5fc6d64bd7a
  - id: product-2024-usage-based-billing
    title: Stripe Billing adds full usage-based billing support
    date: 2024-04-24
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched full usage-based billing support so businesses could meter customer usage inside Stripe and translate it into charges for consumption-based products.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: Major product capability
      - label: Product
        value: Stripe Billing
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - sessions
      - billing
      - usage-based-pricing
    source_ids:
      - source-ca257159d5fc6d64bd7a
  - id: product-2023-hosted-crypto-onramp
    title: Stripe expands Crypto Onramp with a hosted option
    date: 2023-05-04
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched a Stripe-hosted crypto onramp that let web3 companies direct users to a hosted purchase flow, complementing the previously released embeddable onramp.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New hosted product surface
      - label: Product
        value: Stripe Crypto Onramp
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - crypto
      - onramp
      - hosted-checkout
    source_ids:
      - source-91d49dbf8eb4dc2fe25b
  - id: product-2023-reader-s700
    title: Stripe launches Reader S700
    date: 2023-05-02
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched Reader S700, a Stripe-designed Android smart reader for handheld or countertop use that can run customized point-of-sale experiences.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New hardware product
      - label: Platform
        value: Stripe Terminal
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - terminal
      - hardware
      - in-person-payments
    source_ids:
      - source-c48b9240dbf0de0474aa
      - source-b4131d403cf76f5180f6
  - id: product-2023-enhanced-issuer-network
    title: Stripe launches the Enhanced Issuer Network
    date: 2023-02-21
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched the Enhanced Issuer Network to share richer transaction signals with participating card issuers and improve authorization and fraud outcomes.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: Payments network product
      - label: Objective
        value: Reduce fraud and improve authorization rates
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - payments-performance
      - issuers
      - fraud
      - network
    source_ids:
      - source-01a50d4dfa8bd99af9b8
  - id: product-2022-stripe-apps
    title: Stripe launches Stripe Apps and its App Marketplace
    date: 2022-05-24
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: At Sessions 2022, Stripe launched Stripe Apps so developers could extend Dashboard workflows and businesses could install third-party tools from an app marketplace.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: Developer platform and marketplace
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - sessions
      - apps
      - marketplace
      - developer-platform
    source_ids:
      - source-896f1fa818466438409c
      - source-7e1ac4944f2e99511681
  - id: product-2022-data-pipeline
    title: Stripe launches Data Pipeline
    date: 2022-05-18
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched Data Pipeline to synchronize Stripe data and reports into customers' Snowflake or Amazon Redshift warehouses without a custom extraction pipeline.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New data product
      - label: Initial destinations
        value: Snowflake and Amazon Redshift
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Snowflake
      - Amazon Web Services
    tags:
      - data
      - warehouse
      - finance-automation
    source_ids:
      - source-d91521c20750f10315df
  - id: product-2022-financial-connections
    title: Stripe launches Financial Connections
    date: 2022-05-04
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched Financial Connections so businesses could let customers link bank accounts and share permissioned financial data for payments and financial-services workflows.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New bank-account connectivity product
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - open-banking
      - bank-accounts
      - payments
    source_ids:
      - source-2f82649e562cc60b1c81
  - id: product-2021-revenue-recognition
    title: Stripe launches Revenue Recognition
    date: 2021-09-21
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched Revenue Recognition to automate accrual accounting, reporting, and audit-ready revenue schedules for Stripe and non-Stripe transactions.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New finance automation product
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - accounting
      - revenue-recognition
      - finance-automation
    source_ids:
      - source-fa19ecc8fec979878ca9
  - id: product-2021-identity
    title: Stripe launches Identity
    date: 2021-07-14
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched Identity as a self-serve identity-verification product built on its own onboarding infrastructure, initially supporting government documents from more than 30 countries.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New identity product
      - label: Initial methods
        value: Government ID, selfie matching, and record checks
    metrics:
      - label: Document countries
        value: 30+
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - identity
      - kyc
      - fraud
      - compliance
    source_ids:
      - source-2e4a9b448f3053b54cc4
  - id: product-2021-stripe-tax
    title: Stripe launches Stripe Tax
    date: 2021-06-10
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched Tax to calculate and collect sales tax, VAT, and GST and generate filing reports, initially covering more than 30 countries and every US state.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New tax compliance product
      - label: Initial scope
        value: Calculation, collection, nexus monitoring, and reports
    metrics:
      - label: Countries
        value: 30+
        context: Initial calculation and collection coverage
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - tax
      - compliance
      - finance-automation
    source_ids:
      - source-2f087de909d4c677e57c
  - id: product-2021-payment-links
    title: Stripe launches Payment Links
    date: 2021-05-25
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched Payment Links so a business could create and share a Stripe-hosted payment page from the Dashboard without a website or code.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New no-code payment product
      - label: Initial capabilities
        value: One-time and recurring payments, wallets, coupons, subscriptions, and trials
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - no-code
      - checkout
      - payments
    source_ids:
      - source-054ed926fdf9b32db3db
  - id: product-2020-treasury
    title: Stripe launches Treasury
    date: 2020-12-03
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: invite-only launch
    summary: Stripe launched Treasury for platforms to embed financial accounts, money movement, and cards with regulated bank partners, initially through an invite-only program.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: Embedded financial-services product
      - label: Initial access
        value: Invite only
      - label: Bank partners
        value: Evolve Bank & Trust and Goldman Sachs for the initial US program
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Evolve Bank & Trust
      - Goldman Sachs
    tags:
      - treasury
      - embedded-finance
      - banking-as-a-service
    source_ids:
      - source-642ae265859bee92a254
  - id: product-2020-stripe-climate
    title: Stripe launches Stripe Climate
    date: 2020-10-28
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched Climate so businesses could direct a fraction of revenue to a Stripe-selected portfolio of permanent carbon-removal projects, with Stripe taking no fee.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New climate contribution product
      - label: Fee
        value: No Stripe fee; 100% directed to carbon removal
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - climate
      - carbon-removal
      - market-formation
    source_ids:
      - source-2fcd7ee2a315cbde53b4
  - id: product-2019-corporate-card
    title: Stripe launches the Corporate Card
    date: 2019-09-10
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched in the United States
    summary: At Sessions 2019, Stripe launched a no-fee corporate card for US Stripe businesses with instant virtual cards, configurable controls, real-time expense reporting, and category-based rewards.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New card product
      - label: Initial market
        value: United States
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    locations:
      - United States
    related_events:
      - payment-2019-payouts-45-countries
    tags:
      - sessions
      - corporate-card
      - spend-management
    source_ids:
      - source-78a8b3ca1214ea861514
  - id: product-2019-stripe-capital
    title: Stripe launches Capital
    date: 2019-09-05
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched in the United States
    summary: Stripe launched Capital to offer data-driven financing with automated repayment to eligible US businesses and to let Connect platforms extend financing to their users.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New business financing product
      - label: Initial market
        value: United States
      - label: Funding model
        value: Loans issued by a bank partner and serviced through Stripe
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    locations:
      - United States
    tags:
      - capital
      - lending
      - embedded-finance
    source_ids:
      - source-c5c46de8097c01eba667
  - id: product-2018-terminal
    title: Stripe launches Terminal
    date: 2018-09-17
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched Terminal, extending its programmable payments stack to card-present transactions through certified readers, SDKs, and unified online and in-person reporting.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New in-person payments product
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - terminal
      - in-person-payments
      - hardware
    source_ids:
      - source-161de3543c1120684455
  - id: product-2018-issuing
    title: Stripe launches Issuing
    date: 2018-07-26
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: private beta in the United States
    summary: Stripe launched Issuing so businesses could create and manage physical and virtual Visa cards through APIs, beginning with a private US beta.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New card-issuing product
      - label: Initial access
        value: Private beta
      - label: Initial market
        value: United States
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Visa
    locations:
      - United States
    tags:
      - issuing
      - cards
      - private-beta
    source_ids:
      - source-990db0e5c6cad55bb8ee
  - id: product-2018-billing
    title: Stripe launches Billing
    date: 2018-04-05
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched Billing as an evolution of Subscriptions, adding hosted invoicing, flexible recurring-business primitives, and machine-learning-assisted revenue recovery.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New recurring-revenue suite
      - label: Predecessor
        value: Stripe Subscriptions
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - billing
      - subscriptions
      - revenue-automation
    source_ids:
      - source-0161b2f7d12f39a735ec
  - id: product-2017-elements
    title: Stripe launches Elements
    date: 2017-10-03
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched Elements, hosted and customizable UI components that let developers build checkout forms while keeping sensitive payment details off their servers.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New checkout UI toolkit
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - elements
      - checkout
      - developer-tools
    source_ids:
      - source-82a1deff0820ceb706ac
  - id: product-2017-sigma
    title: Stripe launches Sigma
    date: 2017-06-01
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched Sigma, giving businesses a hosted SQL interface for real-time analysis of their Stripe data without building a separate warehouse and pipeline.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New analytics product
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    related_events:
      - milestone-2017-first-stripe-sessions
    tags:
      - sigma
      - analytics
      - sql
    source_ids:
      - source-b51fb51f19c22188d7b9
  - id: product-2016-radar
    title: Stripe launches Radar
    date: 2016-10
    date_precision: month
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched Radar as a machine-learning fraud system trained across the Stripe network, combining automatic blocking with business-configurable review and rules.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New fraud-prevention product
      - label: Date note
        value: Stripe identifies the launch as fall 2016; this record uses month precision
    metrics:
      - label: Businesses at launch
        value: 100,000+
        context: Businesses whose card payments informed the network model
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - radar
      - fraud
      - machine-learning
    source_ids:
      - source-170ce598057aeb518fa4
      - source-878b4090e00bd1f955ce
  - id: product-2016-atlas
    title: Stripe announces Atlas
    date: 2016-02-24
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: private beta
    summary: Stripe announced Atlas in private beta, bundling Delaware incorporation, a US bank account, a Stripe account, and legal, tax, and infrastructure guidance for founders worldwide.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New company-formation service
      - label: Initial access
        value: Private beta
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Silicon Valley Bank
      - PwC
      - Orrick
      - Amazon Web Services
    tags:
      - atlas
      - incorporation
      - startups
      - private-beta
    source_ids:
      - source-d79693d4fba98ad307df
  - id: product-2014-checkout
    title: Stripe debuts its one-click Checkout
    date: 2014-03-05
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe debuted an embeddable Checkout for mobile and web that retained card details for subsequent one-click payments while keeping buyers on the merchant's site.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New hosted checkout surface
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - checkout
      - mobile
      - one-click
    source_ids:
      - source-a38d21043bcbea4662ca
  - id: product-2012-connect
    title: Stripe launches Connect
    date: 2012-10-10
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: launched
    summary: Stripe launched Connect so marketplaces and platforms could onboard sellers, route payments, and build on permissioned payment data through APIs.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: New platform payments product
      - label: Early users
        value: Reddit and Skillshare
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Reddit
      - Skillshare
    tags:
      - connect
      - platforms
      - marketplaces
    source_ids:
      - source-b541414b3e2510a4a100
  - id: product-2011-payments-api-public-launch
    title: Stripe's payments API launches publicly
    date: 2011-09-30
    date_precision: day
    confidence: confirmed
    status: public launch
    summary: After a private beta, Stripe opened its developer-focused payments platform to the public, offering customizable payment forms and direct tokenization so card data did not touch merchant servers.
    details:
      - label: Launch kind
        value: Initial public product launch
      - label: Initial market
        value: United States
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    locations:
      - United States
    related_events:
      - country-2011-united-states-public-launch
      - origins-stripe-public-launch
    tags:
      - payments-api
      - public-launch
      - developer-tools
    source_ids:
      - source-2b1a43a0b359958b4059
schema: stripe-history/history/v2