Link for the Card Element

Link is Stripe's one-click checkout experience. Link lets your customers save their payment information securely and reuse it on your site and across hundreds of thousands of businesses for faster checkout. When new customers come to your site, they can use Link via the Card Element to pay with their saved payment details. With Link, customers skip the hassle of manually entering their payment information, resulting in:

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Link is fully compatible with the other features that you receive from card payments (subscriptions, etc.). There are no additional fees. The same pricing applies to Link for Card Element as for other card payments.

Link is globally available in the single line Card Element and it is in the process of being rolled out in the split Elements (such as Card Number, Expiry and CVC).

Over time, we'll increase the number of funding sources that customers can pay with through their Link account to match local payment method preferences.

How Link works

For returning Link customers, when they click on the Link button within the Card Element, they're asked to authenticate with an SMS or email code. After the customer authenticates, Link loads their previously saved payment details, and then they can pay with one click. If this customer previously authenticated their account in the last 90 days on your site or through a different Link-enabled business, they won't need to do it again and can pay instantly.

Customers who are new to Link are prompted to save their information in a Link account when they click on the Link button.

You can learn more about your customer's Link experience in the Link customer FAQ.

Managing Link for Card Element

Link is a payment option available through the Card Element. It is enabled automatically, with no coding changes required. If you want to turn off Link for all instances of the Card Element, you can do so in your Payment method settings. To selectively disable Link in the Card Element, use the disableLink parameter. You only need to use one of these controls: if either disableLink is true or Link in the Card Element is disabled in Settings, Link won't show in the Card Element.

Link for Connect platforms using the Card Element

For platforms: Link is available automatically to any accounts that access the Card Element through a Connect platform integration. Depending on a platform's integration, a platform may be able to give its users (connected accounts) the ability to customise their own Link settings in the Dashboard. To determine if your platform is eligible, review the requirements in our Docs.

For connected accounts that process payments using a platform: If your platform offers you the ability to customise your Link settings for platform payments from your own Stripe Dashboard, then you can manage your Link in Card Element settings within the Payment method settings by selecting your platform from the drop-down menu at the top of the page.

If your platform is not able to offer settings customisation to you, then the platform will determine Link's availability for all payments processed through the platform and you will not have control over the settings for platform payments in your Dashboard.

For payments that you process without a platform, you can manage Link in the Payment method settings by selecting "no platform" from the drop-down menu at the top of the page.

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