Link improves the conversion rate of your checkout flow. With Link, your customers can save and reuse payment information for a faster checkout at the hundreds of thousands of online businesses that have Link enabled. Conversion rates increased by up to 7% for customers logged into Link, and these returning customers can check out in just 6 seconds—9x faster than non-Link customers.
If you already have Link live for your business and are looking for commonly asked support questions, please refer to the Link FAQ.
For Stripe Checkout and Payment Links users, Link is already enabled on your site with no additional fees or integration work required. You can turn Link off in the Checkout and Payment Links settings in your Dashboard if you don’t want to offer it to your customers.
For Stripe Elements users, Link is available to all users for Web via the Payment Element and Payment Request Button Element. And for mobile iOS and Android, it's available via the Mobile Payment Element.
You can also request early access to Link in the Card Element when it launches in beta in 2023.
How can I accept Link?
You can accept Link through Elements, or through Stripe Checkout.
New Payment Element resources for integrating
Checkout resource for integrating
Integrating Link is no additional work. In fact, it is automatically turned on, which can be controlled via a toggle in the dashboard settings.
Mobile Payment Element for iOS and Android resources for integrating
Payment Request Button
Integrating Link is no additional work. In fact, it is automatically turned on, which can be controlled via a toggle in the Link Dashboard settings.
Card Element (coming soon)
Integrating Link is no additional work. It can be turned on in the dashboard settings.
How much does it cost?
Link pricing is the exact same as card sticker pricing.
Does it work with recurring payments?
Yes, Link works with recurring payments.
For users on subscriptions
You’ll need to create the subscription with payment_behavior=default_incomplete, and send the resulting PaymentIntent to the Payment Element, which activates the subscription when the PaymentIntent is paid.
You can follow the general integration guide.
For users on saved payment methods
You can read more about saving and reusing payment information.
Is Link supported in my country or currency?
For the new Element and the Mobile Payment Element
Your account must be in the US or Europe, but you can present in any currencies supported by cards.
The location of the end customer can be anywhere as long as the above is true.
For Checkout
Link is supported anywhere Cards are supported, and in any presentment currencies that are also supported.
For Payment Request Button and Card Element (coming soon)
Link is supported anywhere Cards are supported, and in any presentment currencies that are also supported.
How do disputes work with Link?
Disputes work the exact same way as they do for cards.
Does Link work with any other payment methods besides Cards?
Currently Link only works with credit and debit cards. To give your customers more payment options at checkout, Stripe is working to add additional funding sources (like bank accounts) to Link in 2022.
Instructions to test the integration of any available funding source can be found in the integration guide.