Stripe is a secure online payment service. You can connect it to Sage Accounting to take card payments for sales invoices.

Before you start:

• Set up a Stripe account as part of the connection process, if you don’t already have one 
• Use a new Stripe account that you don’t use for payments from other sources
• Sage Accounting supports Stripe for invoice payments only
• Sage Accounting doesn’t support foreign currency payments through Stripe
• Stripe supports part payments on invoices
• Stripe deducts fees at the time of payment

Connect Stripe

1. Go to Settings, then select Apps and connections.
2. Select Stripe. 
3. Review the fee information, then do one of the following: 
   • Select Create Account to create a new Stripe account, then follow the sign-up steps 
   • Select Sign In to sign in to a new Stripe account you created directly with Stripe 
4. On the Manage Connection page, check where Sage Accounting records Stripe fees and payouts. 
5. Select Save. 

Sage Accounting records Stripe fees in your Bank charges and interest ledger account by default. You can choose a different ledger account. 

Make sure the payout ledger account matches the bank account that receives your Stripe payouts. You can change the ledger account if needed. 

Stripe payouts

A payout is when Stripe transfers money from card payments to your nominated bank account. Stripe usually makes payouts every two weeks. 

Stripe payments that don’t come from Sage Accounting invoices

Sage Accounting only supports Stripe payments that come from Sage Accounting sales invoices. 

If you take payments in Stripe from another source, Sage Accounting can't match them to invoices automatically. 

This can cause:

• A Stripe payout that doesn’t match your Sage Accounting invoice payments
• A warning icon on the payout
• Sales and VAT records that don’t reflect what you actually sold, if you continue without correcting it

Read more about unknown Stripe payments.

Read our articles:

• Benefits of using the Stripe card payment functionality in Accounting
• Take card payments with Stripe
• How to view your Stripe activity in Accounting
• How to view the Stripe dashboard
• Refund a card payment via Stripe
• Stripe – Why was a customer’s card payment declined?
• Disconnect your Stripe account from Accounting