Public preview
Adds ability to require approval for Stripe-initiated actions Public preview
What’s new
Introduces the Approval Requests v2 API in public preview. Use this API to require explicit approval before Stripe executes sensitive actions on your account, such as creating charges, payouts, transfers, or refunds. The API supports create, update, list, retrieve, and cancel endpoints.
Approval Requests support actions across payments, billing, and money movement, including charge creation, payout creation, transfer creation, refund creation, and subscription updates.
Stripe sends the following events related to Approval Request activity:
- v2. core. approval _ request. created
- v2. core. approval _ request. approved
- v2. core. approval _ request. rejected
- v2. core. approval _ request. canceled
- v2. core. approval _ request. expired
- v2. core. approval _ request. succeeded
- v2. core. approval _ request. failed
Impact
You can configure rules that require Stripe to obtain human approval before processing high-risk or sensitive API actions on your account. Listen for Approval Request webhook events to build automated notification and review systems that integrate with your existing operational tooling.
Changes
| Change | Resource | |
|---|---|---|
| Added | V2. Core. ApprovalRequest | |
| Endpoints | Change | Resource |
| cancel list retrieve update | Added | V2. Core. ApprovalRequest |
| Change | Event type | |
| V2CoreApprovalRequestApprovedEvent V2CoreApprovalRequestCanceledEvent V2CoreApprovalRequestCreatedEvent V2CoreApprovalRequestExpiredEvent V2CoreApprovalRequestFailedEvent V2CoreApprovalRequestRejectedEvent V2CoreApprovalRequestSucceededEvent | Added | V2.Core.ApprovalRequest |
Upgrade
- View your current API version in Workbench.
- If you use an SDK, upgrade to the corresponding SDK version for this API version.
- If you don’t use an SDK, update your API requests to include Stripe-Version: 2026-08-26. preview
- Upgrade the API version used for webhook endpoints .
- Test your integration against the new version.
- If you use Connect, test your Connect integration .
- In Workbench, perform the upgrade . You can roll back the version for 72 hours.
Learn more about Stripe API upgrades.