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# Connect Stripe for customer payments

> Complete Stripe-hosted onboarding and configure accounting registration for customer card payments.

Connect Stripe only after accounting is invoice-ready. Online payments become available when Stripe approves card payments and Sweeply can register them against accounting invoices.

## Before you begin

* Connect and configure Dinero, e-conomic, or Billy.
* Confirm **Ready for invoicing** in Customer billing.
* Complete the required Sweeply plan setup.
* Have legal company, ownership, bank, and representative details available for Stripe-hosted onboarding.
* Identify the accounting account that will hold unsettled Stripe funds.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Stripe Connect">
    Go to **Settings** > **Customer billing** and select **Add online payments** or open **Stripe Connect**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Start Stripe onboarding">
    Select **Connect Stripe**. Enter the required company and payout information in Stripe's hosted flow.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Return to Sweeply">
    Sweeply refreshes the Stripe status. Returning from onboarding does not itself prove readiness.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Respond to Stripe status">
    Continue or update information if the status is **Needs information** or **Restricted**. If the account is **Verifying**, wait for Stripe to complete its review.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose the Stripe clearing account">
    Under **Accounting accounts for Stripe**, select or create the account used to register customer Stripe payments and refunds.

    For e-conomic, the customer-payment journal must also be configured on the provider setup page.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Save and verify readiness">
    Return to Customer billing and confirm **Online payments are ready** and **Payment registration ready**.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Stripe account states

| State             | Action                                                     |
| ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| Not connected     | Start Stripe-hosted onboarding.                            |
| Needs information | Continue in Stripe and provide the missing details.        |
| Verifying         | Wait for Stripe's review; readiness updates automatically. |
| Ready             | Card payments and accounting registration are available.   |
| Restricted        | Open Stripe and resolve the account requirement.           |

<Check>
  The setup is complete only when Sweeply can create payment links and register successful payments in accounting.
</Check>