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Stripe Billing

Understand how Stripe Billing and Uscreen integrate and the limitations

Updated over 2 weeks ago

We’ve expanded our integration with Stripe to bring you powerful tools that:

  • Increase sales with popular payment methods like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and others.

  • Save time and money with automated tax collection for sales tax, VAT, or GST.

  • Reduce churn and failed payments with optimized payment tools.

Note: Stripe charges a 0.7% fee on recurring transaction volume through Stripe Billing. Stripe also offers an option for a flat monthly fee; learn more here.

Learn more about the benefits of Stripe Billing below.


Expanded Payment Methods

Digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay accounted for half of all e-commerce transactions in 2024, with this trend continuing to grow. Offering these options enhances customer convenience and boosts conversions.

With the exception of Buy now, Pay later options, no additional set up is required in your Stripe account to use the payment methods below.

Available Payment Methods with Stripe Billing:

Payment Method

Subscription Payments

One-Time Payments

Support Location

Notes

Credit Cards

Yes

Yes

In most countries.

Apple Pay

Limited

Yes

In most countries.

Requires domain verification (handled during setup).


Will not appear if you're using the Subscription Upsell feature due to limitations with Apple Pay.


Auto-displayed in Safari on Apple devices where Wallet access is set up.

Google Pay

Yes

Yes

In most countries.

Will not appear if you're using the Subscription Upsell feature due to limitations with Google Pay.


Auto-displayed if saved in the supported browser.

Stripe Link

Yes

Yes

In most countries.

Afterpay

Does not support subscription payments.

Yes

Australia

Canada

New

Zealand

UK

USA

Does not save payment method for future purchases in checkout.

Affirm

Does not support subscription payments.

Yes

USA

Canada

Does not save payment method for future purchases in checkout.

Klarna

Does not support subscription payments.

Yes

USA

Europe

Does not save payment method for future purchases in checkout.

SEPA

Yes

Yes

Europe

Disabled by default; can be enabled in Stripe.

Access may be delayed for a few days due to bank approval.

iDEAL

Does not support subscription payments.

Yes

Netherlands

Does not save payment method for future purchases in checkout.

Sofort

Does not support subscription payments.

Yes

Germany

Austria

Switzerland

Does not save payment method for future purchases in checkout.

Giropay

Does not support subscription payments.

Yes

Europe

Does not save payment method for future purchases in checkout.

CashApp

Yes

Yes

USA

Does not save payment method for future purchases in checkout.

Important Details:

  • Dynamic Payment Display: Stripe dynamically shows the payment methods most likely to convert based on the customer’s location and device.

  • Unsupported Methods: Only the above methods are supported with Stripe Billing. Attempting to activate unsupported methods will not make them functional.

  • Enabling/Disabling Payment Methods: Manage payment methods in your Stripe dashboard under Payment Methods.

  • Domain Verification for Apple Pay: Stripe requires domain verification for Apple Pay, handled when you connect your Stripe account.

  • Note: Apple Pay will not appear as a payment method on any subscription that is also using our Subscription Upsell feature. This is due to limitations with Apple Pay.

NOTE: Users paying with SEPA will not have access until their bank approves the transaction. This can sometimes take a few days.

SEPA is turned off by default for new stores, so if you want to use it you can turn it on from your payment methods section in Stripe.


Optimized Payment Tools

Expired credit cards, declined transactions and bank errors can account for 25% of all churn that subscription businesses experience.

With Stripe Billing, you’ll reduce involuntary churn significantly with Smart Retries, automated failed payment emails, and automatic card account update technology.

Smart Retries does not require any set up. However, you can edit the default settings here.


Automated Tax Collection

Tax collection requires setup in Stripe. Please refer to our guide here on setting it up.

If you’re not collecting sales tax at checkout, you’re paying it out-of-pocket, which is expensive and risky for you and your business.

With Stripe Tax, accurate sales tax, VAT or GST amounts will be automatically calculated and collected at checkout, making compliance with country or state laws easier and saving you money.

When you enable Stripe Tax, you will be able to collect tax for both Stripe and PayPal transactions. As of today, there is a 0.5% fee per Stripe transaction where you're registered to collect tax. There is a $0.50 fee per PayPal transaction where you're registered to collect tax. To learn more about the most updated fee structure for Stripe Tax, click here.

NOTE: For any questions about how your business collects tax you'll want to refer to a tax professional. If you have any questions regarding the setup and configuration of taxes, please reach out to Stripe support directly.


Additional Benefits:

Stripe Subscriptions

When creating a subscription plan in Uscreen, a corresponding subscription product is generated in Stripe automatically. This product is then assigned to users when they initiate a subscription during the checkout process on your Join page.

Please note that products, coupons, or user edits made directly in Stripe won't sync with Uscreen. Only items created by Uscreen will be managed through our platform.

Stripe Billing Analytics

With Stripe creating products for subscriptions and coupons for your members, Stripe's Billing analytics feature will begin to report on churn, new users, conversion rates, and more.

More Ways to Integrate Uscreen Membership Data

With subscription data now being managed within Stripe, you can directly integrate with tools like Salesforce, Intercom, Klaviyo, and many more with Stripe subscription data syncing to these software.

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