Business Operations · By Stripe

Stripe Setup Guide

Best practices for accepting payments, subscriptions, and marketplace transactions with Stripe.

What it is

This skill helps you make the right decisions when setting up Stripe for your business. It guides you through choosing the right payment APIs, setting up subscriptions, building marketplaces, and following security best practices. Whether you're launching your first checkout flow or migrating an existing integration, you'll get expert recommendations without needing to be a developer.

What it does

  • Recommends the right Stripe API for your use case (one-time payments, subscriptions, marketplaces)
  • Guides you through setting up payment forms, checkout pages, and custom flows
  • Explains how to handle subscriptions, recurring billing, and saved payment methods
  • Provides security best practices for API keys, webhooks, and compliance
  • Helps you migrate from old Stripe setups to current best practices

Use it when

  • You're setting up payments for the first time on your product or website
  • You need to add subscriptions or recurring billing to your business
  • You're building a marketplace or platform that needs to pay out sellers
  • You want to review your existing Stripe setup for security or compliance issues

Add this skill to your AI

Copy the source URL and ask your AI to add it. Most coding agents — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Windsurf — will fetch and install it for you.

Try this prompt:

Add this skill to my project: https://github.com/stripe/ai/tree/main/skills/stripe-best-practices
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CategoryBusiness Operations