Connect Stripe
One Stripe key, and everything that pays you through it.
Substack, Ghost, Memberful, Ko-fi, your own checkout: if the money lands in your Stripe, it lands here, with the fees split out.
A restricted key you mint yourself, read only on balance and balance transactions.
Why one key is enough
Most creator tools ask you to connect six platforms. Stripe already is the six.
Subscriptions, memberships and tips have no money system. They have Stripe.
- →Everything money-shaped in Stripe passes through one place, the balance transactions, so one read-only key sees all of it
- →Charges roll up into a day: gross in one figure, Stripe's fees in another, so your real income is not the number on the invoice
- →Refunds subtract from the day they belong to rather than appearing as a mystery expense later
- →Payouts come across one by one, so the transfer to your bank is a transfer and not a second helping of income
The key you give us
A restricted key, with two permissions on it.
You create it in your own Stripe dashboard and choose what it may read.
| What to createIn your Stripe dashboard | A restricted key (rk_live_), read access on Balance and Balance transactions. Nothing else is needed and nothing else is used |
| What it cannot doBy construction, not by promise | A read key cannot charge a card, issue a refund or move a payout. Stripe enforces that, not us |
| Checked before it is savedNot on the first sync | The key is tried against Stripe first; a dead or wrong key never reaches the database |
| Where it livesAfter it is accepted | Encrypted at rest, and never returned by our API again |
| Your Orla billingA different Stripe entirely | This is your Stripe as an earnings source. It has nothing to do with how you pay for Orla |
The money still on Stripe
What has not reached your bank yet is an account, not a rounding error.
What Stripe still holds becomes an account, counted once and in the right place.
- →Earned but not paid out is money you have, and it shows as money you have
- →When the payout lands, it moves between two accounts you own instead of arriving from nowhere
- →One account per currency, so a euro balance and a dollar balance stay themselves
Questions
The questions people ask before connecting.
Which platforms does one Stripe key cover?
Can the key charge anyone or move my payouts?
Is this the same Stripe that bills me for Orla?
Didn't find your answer? [email protected]
Read next: the creator view, invoices and pay links, how to invoice international clients.
Start
Connect Stripe, and see a month of income with the fees taken out.
Platform connections are on the paid plans; the free plan holds the book, manual accounts and imports.