Stripe Online

: Specifically designed for marketplaces and software platforms (like Shopify or DoorDash), Connect orchestrates complex money movements across multiple parties, handling onboarding and global payouts.

Stripe’s primary competitive advantage is its technical architecture. Unlike legacy systems built on mainframes, Stripe was built in the cloud, designed for high availability and developer usability. stripe

While PayPal offers basic subscriptions, Stripe’s product is enterprise-grade. You can handle metered billing (pay as you go), tiered pricing, prorations, customer dunning (retrying failed payments), and revenue recovery with Smart Retries. Stripe was built in the cloud