Stripe services are invite-only in India. Businesses from India are not able to sign up for a new Stripe account through our website, and instead need to request an invite. Read more about invite-only Stripe accounts in India.
Stripe Connect is an API and set of tools used to route payments between a business, customers, and recipients who need to get paid. It powers payments for business models like marketplaces and software platforms.
Restrictions on Connect for Stripe India:
- Depending on your preferred integration, you may need to engage with the sales team
- On behalf of capability for destination charges is not supported for all integrations
- Separate charges and transfers charge type, or standalone transfers via the dashboard or API to connected accounts, are currently not supported
- Manual payouts to connected accounts is supported for limited use-cases. Contact Support if you are interested in this feature.
- Platform account top-ups are only supported for negative balances
- Cross border transactions are only supported for:
- Connected accounts with direct charges and without application fee, who have access to the Stripe Dashboard, and where loss liability and fee collection are managed by Stripe
- US-based platforms with connected accounts on the Recipient Terms of Service with Separate Charges and Transfers without on_behalf_of or Top-up and Transfers. Destination charges and destination charges with on_behalf_of are not supported
- Due to India data local storage requirements, we don't support updating country to or from India after account creation. You will need to create a new connected account and select the revised country upon account creation
Restrictions on cross-border transactions
These restrictions don't apply to Indian accounts with the recipient service agreement.
Direct charges
Platform Account |
Connected Account |
Does Platform Collect Application Fee? |
Supported by Stripe? |
India |
India |
Yes or No |
Yes |
Outside India |
India |
No |
Yes |
India |
Outside India |
No |
Yes |
Outside India |
India |
Yes |
No |
India |
Outside India |
Yes |
No |
Destination charges
Platform Account |
Connected Account |
Does Platform Collect Application Fee? |
Buyer |
Supported by Stripe? |
India |
India |
Yes or No |
India |
Yes |
India |
India |
No |
Outside India |
Yes |
India |
India |
Yes |
Outside India |
No |
India |
Outside India |
Yes or No |
No |
|
US |
India |
Yes or No |
No |
|
Outside India, non-US |
India |
Yes or No |
No |
Stripe India plugins
Domestic charges (INR) and export (international) charges (non-INR) are supported with all plug-ins including Shopify, Chargebee, Magento, and WooCommerce. If you have questions, reach out to your plugin to find out more about supporting Indian export transactions on Stripe.