Stripe | Financial Infrastructure to Grow Your Revenue

Stripe | Financial Infrastructure to Grow Your Revenue

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Accounts now include an external_accounts field


Breaking changes

Accounts now include an external_accounts field Breaking changes

What’s new

Replaces the bank_account value in the fields_needed property with external_account.

Impact

This change increases the versatility in account linking and financial operations.

Upgrade

  1. View your current API version in Workbench.
  2. 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: 2015-10-01
  1. Upgrade the API version used for webhook endpoints .
  2. Test your integration against the new version.
  3. If you use Connect, test your Connect integration .
  4. In Workbench, perform the upgrade . You can roll back the version for 72 hours.

Learn more about Stripe API upgrades.

Last verified 2026-09-24

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