Introduction to the Stripe API

The Stripe API allows merchants to build platforms, marketplaces, or other businesses on a solid foundation. It enables secure transactions and money movement.

The Stripe API lets a developer:

• Check a Stripe account's balance.
• Retrieve an account's balance history, which includes a list of transactions (charges, payouts, etc.) that contributed to its balance.
• List, create, update, and search for charges.
• Create, update, or list refunds.

Connection prerequisites

To connect to the Stripe API, you need the base URL: https://api.stripe.com/.

Authentication

The Stripe API requires a secret API token for authentication. You must authenticate every request and send it over HTTPS. Unauthorized requests or requests sent over plain HTTP fail.

You can find these tokens, also called secret keys, on your Stripe account dashboard. See Using Postman to Connect to the Stripe API for detailed instructions on generating the token and using it to authenticate your connection.

danger

For security purposes, don't share the secret key with other users.