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Managed Payments


Managed Payments

Sell digital products globally with the Stripe merchant of record solution for tax, fraud, disputes, and support.

Use Managed Payments to sell digital products such as SaaS, software, and digital content or downloads. The Stripe merchant of record solution handles sales tax, VAT, and GST compliance in more than 80 countries, along with fraud prevention, dispute management, and transaction-level customer support.

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How Managed Payments works

Learn how Managed Payments works.

Managed Payments eligibility

Learn which products, countries, and integrations are supported.

Tax compliance with Managed Payments

Learn how Managed Payments handles sales tax, VAT, and GST compliance in more than 80 countries.

Use cases

Build a Checkout integration

Build a new Checkout integration with Managed Payments enabled.

Update your Checkout integration

Update an existing Checkout integration to use Managed Payments.

Create payment links

Create payment links with Managed Payments enabled to start collecting payments for digital products.

Accept mobile app payments

Use Managed Payments to accept payments from a mobile app.

Compare Managed Payments with other Stripe products

Managed PaymentsOther Stripe products
Merchant of recordStripeYour business
Manage indirect tax compliance1Available with Tax
Checkout page compatible withCheckout, Payment LinksCheckout, Elements, hosted invoice page, Payment Links
Support for subscriptionsAvailable with BillingAvailable with Billing
Protect against fraudAvailable with Radar
Respond to disputesAvailable with Payments
Transaction-level customer support
Support for platformsAvailable with Connect

1 Managed Payments handles indirect tax compliance (sales tax, VAT, and GST) on transactions in more than 80 countries.

Unsupported integrations

Managed Payments doesn’t support:

  • Stripe Connect (platform or marketplace integrations)

  • Payment flows that use embeddable web components or other advanced integrations

  • Attaching invoice items on a Customer object to a Managed Payments subscription

  • Generating a one-off invoice on a Customer object or for a subscription outside the billing period

  • Creating a subscription outside of Checkout or Payment Links

  • Third-party tax integrations

Last verified 2026-09-24

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