Terminal

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

Stripe Terminal allows businesses to accept in-person card payments using card readers. You can manage both in-person payments and online payments in a unified system in the Stripe Dashboard.

TERMINAL

Get started

Use Stripe Terminal to unify online and in-person payments. Learn more about Terminal availability by country and its features.

Design your Terminal integration

Features

In-person payments
Accept payments using physical card readers for in-person and Tap to Pay transactions that can automatically allow for tip adjustments during checkout.
Multiple payment methods
Accept various payment types, including debit and credit cards, contactless payments, and mobile wallets.
Reader choices
Choose from different readers, depending on your business needs.
Multiple platform support
Integrate Stripe Terminal into any platform using a server-driven integration. For example, add Terminal to your mobile app for iOS or Android.
Accept payments offline
Accept payments with intermittent, limited, or no internet connectivity.

Integration options

Build a custom POS

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 Tap to Pay

Accept contactless payments using a compatible iPhone or Android device with the Stripe Terminal SDK.

Use Apps on Devices

Deploy your Android POS app to Stripe smart readers.

Stripe connectors and applications

Stripe’s payment features can be incorporated into your existing stack, including third-party POS systems and gateway integrations.

Stripe Connector for Oracle Opera

Use the Stripe Connector for Oracle Opera to collect in-person payments with Stripe Terminal.

Stripe Connector for Cegid

Use the Stripe Connector for Cegid to collect in-person payments with Stripe Terminal.

FreedomPay gateway

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

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More connectors

Explore Stripe partner integrations for POS and in-person payments.

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.