Launch faster with a card issuing programme built to scale

From expense management to order fulfilment, Stripe Issuing allows you to easily create, manage, and grow a commercial card programme. Get started quickly and customise key details like card design and spend limits.

For fintech-focused businesses

Card programmes tailored to your needs

Process $1 or $1M with the same easy-to-use APIs. Our compliance-first card programmes are designed to help you get started quickly and support you as you scale.

Offer spend or charge cards

Build an expense management programme that allows businesses to spend on credit or with earned funds.

Build with compliance first

Rely on Stripe’s bank partners, experienced compliance team, and regulatory expertise as you build your product.

Earn revenue

With flexible pricing options, you can earn a share of interchange revenue from every purchase on your cards.

Build a financial hub

Simplify your infrastructure with our embedded financial services suite. Use Issuing with Stripe Financial Accounts to offer accounts for storing, moving and spending money.

Complete oversight

Customise your card programme

With dynamic controls and easy-to-use APIs, programmatically adjust every detail of your card offering. You can manage spend and fraud by setting spending limits, authorising a decision in real-time, blocking merchant categories, and confirming a transaction via SMS.

Services

Choose your Issuing journey

There are two models to get started with Issuing: comprehensive programme management and modular issuer processing. Whether you want to rely on Stripe’s bank partners to power your card programmes or prefer to maintain direct banking relationships or licensing while relying on Stripe’s powerful infrastructure, we have the right option for you.

Stripe programme management

Stripe handles key aspects of the card issuing process. Rely on Stripe’s bank partners, experienced compliance team, and regulatory expertise as you build your product. This allows you to focus on a smooth launch and scaling your business, so you can offload the complexities of issuing banks and relationships with card networks to Stripe.

Stripe processing only

With Stripe as the processor, you will maintain full control of your banking relationships or use your own licences while using Stripe’s reliable transaction processing. This modular design lets you add value-added services, such as physical cards or dispute management, giving you more flexibility in managing your operations.

Power with credit

Cards with credit options Beta

Stripe Issuing streamlines the compliance workflows and banking relationships needed to launch a charge card. Customise individual credit limits and repayment schedules via our API, and use Stripe’s no-code and embeddable payment products to easily collect repayments.

Infrastructure for every size

Support at every stage

Our users span every phase of growth, from pre-seed startups to global billion-dollar businesses. We’ve built Issuing so any business – no matter its size – can use the same future-proof infrastructure.