Terminal

Use Stripe Terminal to accept in-person payments and extend Stripe payments to your point of sale.

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Use Stripe Terminal to accept in-person payments and extend Stripe payments to your point of sale.

Integration options

Build a custom POS integration tailored to your business. Terminal supports an API-based integration in addition to SDKs for Android, iOS, JavaScript, and React Native.

Use a Stripe connector

Use a Stripe connector to integrate Stripe’s payment suite directly into select third-party POS systems.

Use a partner gateway

Combine Stripe’s payments suite with over 1,000 FreedomPay-supported POS systems, third-party hardware options, gift cards, and other commerce integrations.

Stripe Terminal is available in the following countries:

Availability

Australia

Belgium

Canada

Denmark

France

Germany

Ireland

Italy

Netherlands

Singapore

Spain

Sweden

United Kingdom

United States

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Austria

Czech Republic

Finland

Luxembourg

Malaysia

New Zealand

Norway

Portugal

Switzerland

You can only collect payments in your local currency with supported card brands. Stripe Terminal offers pre-certified readers and Tap to Pay, which allows users to accept in-person contactless payments with a compatible iPhone or Android device and the Stripe Terminal SDK. Hardware must be shipped to physical addresses (not PO boxes). If you’re outside the available countries, you can request an invite to test Terminal.

Learn about Terminal

Explore Terminal

Learn about Stripe Terminal through example use cases and the architecture of an integration.

Try the example app

Understand interactions between Terminal SDKs and readers, and your backend and point of sale application.

Build a starter integration

Build a starter integration with our code-based tour that includes downloadable files so you can follow along.

Design your integration

Choose your integration and reader

Discover the integration and reader combination that works best for your in-person payments.

Test your integration

Effectively test your Terminal integration and pressure test it against a variety of edge cases.

Platforms with in-person payments

Integrate Stripe Terminal with your Connect platform

Enable in-person payments for your platform

In-person fundamentals

Save cards at the point of sale

Save cards to initiate a subscription, attach payment details to a customer’s online account, or defer payment.

Cancel or refund payments

Understand the two-step authorization and capture process and how to perform a cancellation or refund.

Display cart details

Dynamically update a smart reader’s screen with individual items in the transaction, along with total price.

Send prebuilt or custom receipts

Provide your customers with receipts that meet card network rules and local regulatory requirements.

Use a partner gateway

Stripe works with FreedomPay, a third-party gateway, to enable payments for enterprises. You can use FreedomPay to add Stripe to your existing in-person payments setup.

This integration path offers you the ability to:

Unify all of your data across channels, processors, geographies, and lines of business.
Use Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) to help with compliance.
Track customer activity and offer loyalty programs.
Route volume across multiple processors.