Set up Stripe
Set Up Stripe Payments for Your Business
Already using Stripe, or getting ready to? Stripe provides the payment infrastructure and decides who may use it. Enterprise Pay Gateway is independent software you connect to your own eligible Stripe account, so you can set up and run the things a business actually sells with: payment links, a storefront checkout, invoices, in-person payments and recurring billing.
What is Stripe setup?
Stripe setup is the work of getting a business to the point where it can take money through Stripe: creating and verifying a Stripe account with Stripe, then configuring the things customers pay for — a payment page or link, a storefront, invoices, or a recurring plan. Stripe owns the account, verification and payouts. Enterprise Pay Gateway is software that connects to that account and configures and manages the supported payment workflows around it.
Where Stripe ends and EPG begins
Stripe is the payment processor. It approves and verifies accounts, holds and moves the money, and sets payout timing. Enterprise Pay Gateway is separate software: it connects to your Stripe account, creates the payment surfaces your customers use, records every payment from Stripe's own verified events, and shows you what Stripe reports about the account. EPG is not Stripe, is not Stripe support, and has no say in Stripe's decisions about your account.
What you can set up
- Payment links: one shareable Stripe-hosted payment page per product, service or deposit.
- Storefront checkout: a public page listing everything you sell, with pay buttons, if you have no website.
- Recurring payments and memberships: monthly or yearly plans with renewals, a subscriber list and failed-renewal alerts.
- Invoices with a pay button, and US bank debit (ACH) alongside cards on larger tickets.
- Payment at the counter: type an amount and the customer pays on their own phone.
- Customer billing self-service: members request a secure link and update their card on the payment provider's hosted page.
- Revenue recovery, customer intelligence, Stripe account health, dispute tracking and per-payment evidence records.
How Stripe setup works, step by step
- 1. Create your free EPG workspace and add your business details.
- 2. Connect Stripe — a new account or the one you already use.
- 3. Complete any verification Stripe asks for. Stripe alone decides when the account may take payments.
- 4. Add what you sell: products, plans, packages or an invoice.
- 5. Publish your payment surface: a link, a storefront page or a membership plan.
- 6. Share it and start accepting payments once Stripe has enabled the account.
How long it takes
The EPG side is designed to be short: a workspace, a business profile and a first product are a few minutes of typing. The part nobody can put a clock on is Stripe's own verification, which depends on your business, your country and the information Stripe asks for. Until Stripe enables charges on the account, no software can take a live payment for you.
Already use Stripe? Keep your Stripe account.
There is nothing to migrate and no processor to switch. EPG connects to the Stripe account you already have, and money keeps settling into that account in your own name. If that is your situation, the Stripe add-on page covers it in detail, including the fees and what gets added on top of Stripe.
Stripe payment links and payment pages
Every product you add gets a Stripe-hosted payment page you can text, email or put in a bio, and a storefront page can list them all together. Card details are entered on Stripe's hosted checkout, so they never reach EPG or your website. The payment links page has the detail.
Recurring Stripe payments and subscription billing
Set a price and an interval and Stripe runs the renewals. EPG keeps the subscriber list, renewal history, failed-payment alerts and cancel or pause controls in one place, so a lapsed member is something you can see rather than something you find out about later. The recurring revenue page has the detail.
Customer billing and self-service
Members can ask for a secure, single-use link by email, see their plan, price, status and next payment date, update their card on the payment provider's own hosted page, and stop future renewals at the end of a period they have already paid for. Refunds, plan changes and immediate cancellation stay with the business. The customer billing page has the detail.
Knowing where your Stripe account stands
EPG reads the signals Stripe publishes about your connected account — whether payments are enabled, whether payouts are enabled, what verification is outstanding, which restrictions apply — and states them separately, with the time they were read. It is a read-only explanation of what Stripe says, not a verdict on your account.
When a payment fails
A declined card is recorded as a declined card. EPG stores a plain failure category from Stripe's own event, never card data, and each payment's state follows Stripe's authoritative outcome, so an unpaid attempt is never counted as revenue. Failed renewals and abandoned checkouts show up as actions to follow up, and open disputes show the reason, the money at risk and the time left to respond.
What is available today
| Capability | Where it stands |
|---|---|
Hosted checkout links Every product gets a secure Stripe-hosted payment page you can share anywhere. | Available now |
Public storefront page A public page listing everything you sell, with pay buttons. | Available now |
Memberships and recurring billing Charge monthly or yearly, with renewals run automatically, plus a subscriber list, renewal history, failed-payment alerts and cancel or pause controls. | Available now |
Invoicing Send an invoice with a pay button and see when it is viewed and paid. | Available now |
Bank payments (ACH) Offer US bank debit alongside cards on larger tickets. | Available now |
Charge in person Enter an amount at the counter and the customer pays on their own phone. | Available now |
Customer membership self-service access Your members can ask for a secure, single-use link by email and open their own membership without an EPG login. | Available now The link works for 30 minutes, can be used once, and replaces any earlier link. Nothing is ever sent automatically. |
Member card updates A member updates their card on the payment provider's own hosted page. EPG never sees or stores card details. | Eligibility required Requires the payment provider's customer billing-management setting to be enabled for merchant accounts. Until an owner enables it, members are told to contact the business instead. |
Revenue recovery Failed payments, dormant customers and unused packages surfaced as actions. | Available now Needs payment history before opportunities appear. |
Stripe account health Whether payments are enabled, whether payouts are enabled, what verification is outstanding and which restrictions apply — read from Stripe and shown separately. | Available now |
Dispute intelligence Open disputes with the reason explained, money at risk, time left to respond and the stored record of that payment. EPG never submits a response or decides an outcome. | Available now |
Transaction evidence records An append-only record per payment: what was sold, which policy versions were shown, whether the customer explicitly accepted them, and what the business recorded as delivered. | Available now |
The full list is on the features page.
The facts
- Stripe is the payment processor; Enterprise Pay Gateway is independent software that connects to a merchant's own Stripe account.
- Checkout is hosted by Stripe, so card numbers never reach EPG or the merchant's website.
- Money settles into a Stripe account in the merchant's own name, on Stripe's payout schedule.
- Every payment record is written from a signature-verified Stripe event, and its state follows Stripe's outcome.
- An EPG workspace is free to create, and connecting Stripe requires no processor switch.
- Stripe processes the payments and decides account status. Enterprise Pay Gateway is independent software that reads what Stripe reports and organises it for you.
What this does not do
- EPG is not Stripe and is not Stripe support.
- EPG does not approve, verify or underwrite a Stripe account, and cannot lift a restriction, change a reserve or alter payout timing — only Stripe can.
- EPG is not a payment processor and does not hold merchant funds.
- No payment can be taken until Stripe has enabled charges on the connected account, however quickly the EPG side is set up.
- A physical card reader is not part of the product; in-person payment happens on the customer's phone.
Common questions
- What is Stripe setup?
- Stripe setup is getting a business ready to take money through Stripe: creating and verifying the Stripe account with Stripe, then configuring what customers pay for — a payment link, a storefront, an invoice or a recurring plan. EPG is software for the second part, connected to your own Stripe account.
- How do I set up Stripe payments for my business?
- Create a free EPG workspace, add your business details, connect Stripe, complete any verification Stripe asks for, add what you sell, and publish a payment link, storefront page or plan. Payments can be accepted once Stripe has enabled charges on the account.
- Can I use my existing Stripe account with EPG?
- Yes. EPG connects to the Stripe account you already have. There is nothing to migrate and no processor to switch, and money keeps settling into that account in your own name.
- Does EPG replace Stripe?
- No. Stripe stays the processor and holds the account. EPG is separate software that configures and manages supported payment workflows around it.
- Can I create Stripe payment links?
- Yes. Every product you add in EPG gets a Stripe-hosted payment page you can share anywhere, and you can publish a storefront page listing all of them.
- Can I set up recurring Stripe payments?
- Yes. Set a price and a monthly or yearly interval; Stripe runs the renewals and EPG keeps the subscriber list, renewal history, failed-payment alerts and cancel or pause controls.
- Can customers update their payment method?
- Yes, where the payment provider's customer billing-management setting is enabled for the merchant account. The member requests a secure single-use link by email and updates the card on the provider's own hosted page. Until that setting is enabled, members are asked to contact the business.
- Does EPG handle my customers' card details?
- No. Card details are entered and stored by the payment provider on its own hosted pages. EPG never sees or stores a card number.
- Does EPG approve my Stripe account?
- No. Stripe decides account approval, verification, restrictions, reserves and payouts. EPG reads and explains what Stripe reports and has no influence over those decisions.
- How long does Stripe setup take?
- The EPG side is usually a few minutes of typing. Stripe's verification takes as long as Stripe needs, depending on your business, your country and the information requested, and no payment can be taken until Stripe enables charges.
- Can EPG help me understand payment failures?
- Yes. Each failed attempt is recorded with a plain failure category taken from Stripe's own event, never card data, and failed renewals and abandoned checkouts are surfaced as follow-up actions.
- What happens if a payment fails?
- The payment is recorded as failed, no revenue is counted for it, and nothing is charged. You see the attempt, its category and the customer it belongs to, and can follow up or send a fresh payment link.
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