Payments & Stripe
Connecting Stripe
How do I connect Stripe?
Go to Payments
Connect with Stripe is the only thing on the page until you've done it.

Payments → Connect with Stripe. DropQ hands you to Stripe
The rest happens on Stripe's own site. Stripe asks for your business details, an ID check, and the bank account you want money paid into — DropQ never sees or stores any of it.

DropQ hands you to Stripe. The rest happens on Stripe's site. Come back and check the status
Coming back from Stripe is not the same as being finished. Payments tells you when Stripe can actually take charges — that's when you can publish.

Once Stripe can take charges, you can publish.
Coming back from Stripe is not the same as being finished. See the next article.
Related
- Started vs ready to take paymentsCreating a Stripe account isn't the same as being able to take charges — Stripe decides when.
- When you get paidCustomers pay into your own Stripe account, and Stripe pays out on its schedule.
- Why you can't publishAlmost always Stripe: a drop can't go live until Stripe can take card payments for you.