Removes the requirement for certain connected accounts to collect external account information in the Account Sessions API
What’s new
Adds the ability for Connect embedded components to skip collecting external account information when Stripe is responsible for collecting requirements and Stripe user authentication is enabled. Previously, Connect embedded components always required external account information when Stripe was responsible for collecting requirements, regardless of whether Stripe authentication was enabled.
Impact
Previously, when calling the Account Sessions API, you could set components.account_onboarding.features.external_account_collection to false only if the platform was responsible for collecting requirements. Now, if Stripe is responsible for collecting requirements, you can set external_account_collection to false if you also set components.account_onboarding.features.disable_stripe_user_authentication to false. Read more about external account collection with Connect embedded components.
The default value of external_account_collection is still true.
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: 2026-03-25. dahlia
- 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.