A marketplace or platform product often starts with a simple idea: helping people buy from, hire, or sell to one another. When money moves between customers, your business, and the businesses or service providers you support, payments become an important part of the product experience.
Join the Stripe Community on October 31, from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM for a community-led introduction to embedded payments with Stripe Connect.
This session is designed for aspiring and startup founders, vibe coders, developers, product leaders, and anyone interested in building platform or marketplace products. You don’t need a finished product or prior experience with Stripe Connect, embedded payments, or marketplace infrastructure to participate.
During the session, you’ll:
- Start with a product idea and map the payment model. Consider who pays, who earns, and what role your platform plays in the transaction.
- Compare platform and marketplace models. Explore how platforms help businesses accept payments and how marketplaces connect customers with sellers or service providers.
- Follow an example payment flow. See how onboarding, payments, fund routing, payouts, and platform operations fit together.
- Explore ways to get started. Learn how AI-assisted development tools, Stripe’s Interactive Platform Guide, and Connect documentation can help you explore an integration.
- See how Stripe Connect can grow with your product. Discuss how Connect can support changing business models and operational needs.
You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of how money can move through your product, the key decisions involved in embedded payments, and practical next steps for exploring Stripe Connect.
Bring a product idea, an existing business that could benefit from embedded payments, or simply your curiosity. Coding experience, tool setup, and payments expertise are not required. This is an accessible introduction, not a technical implementation workshop.
Event Schedule
6:00–6:05 PM — Welcome & Framing
Welcome attendees, introduce the session, and invite everyone to keep a product or marketplace idea in mind.
6:05–6:15 PM — Embedded Payments & Stripe Connect
Introduce embedded payments and how Stripe Connect can support onboarding, payments, payouts, and platform operations.
6:15–6:25 PM — Map the Money
Think through who the customer is, who receives the money, what role the platform plays, and how sellers or service providers might be paid.
6:25–6:40 PM — Example Payment Flow
Walk through how customers, connected businesses or service providers, the platform, and Stripe can interact during onboarding, payments, fund routing, and payouts.
6:40–6:50 PM — Find Your Starting Point
Explore AI-assisted coding tools, Stripe’s Interactive Platform Guide, and Connect documentation as ways to learn more.
6:50–7:00 PM — Q&A & Next Steps
Ask questions, share ideas, and choose a next step—such as exploring the guide, reading the documentation, or mapping your product’s payment flow.
