# Connect Stripe and get paid

Source: https://sofunnels.com/guide/connect-stripe
Last updated: 2026-10-05

To take payments, connect your own Stripe account once: open **Settings**, choose **Payment Gateway**, press **Connect with Stripe** and follow Stripe's steps. From then on every checkout, order bump and upsell charges through your Stripe account. Money goes from the buyer to your Stripe balance and out to your bank on your usual schedule. soFunnels takes 0%.

- **Plan:** Basic or Pro
- **Time needed:** About 10 minutes, mostly on Stripe
- **You need:** A Stripe account, or the details to create one
- **Platform fee:** 0%. Only Stripe's standard processing fee applies

## Connect your Stripe account

1. In the studio, open **Settings** in the top bar and choose **Payment Gateway**.
2. Press **Connect with Stripe**.
3. On Stripe, sign in to your existing account or create a new one, then confirm your business and bank details.
4. You return to soFunnels with the connection marked **Active & Ready**. Press **Test Connection** to check it at any time.

> **Good to know:** if you leave Stripe before finishing, the button changes to **Continue Onboarding on Stripe** so you can pick up where you stopped.

## How the money flows

- **Buyers pay you directly.** Charges are made on your Stripe account. soFunnels is not a payment processor and never holds your money.
- **0% platform fee.** soFunnels charges a flat plan price and takes nothing from your sales. Stripe charges its standard processing fee.
- **Payouts follow your Stripe schedule.** Stripe pays out to your bank exactly as it would for any other sale.
- **Refunds, disputes and receipts stay in Stripe.** You manage them from your Stripe dashboard. [Orders and refunds](https://sofunnels.com/guide/orders-and-refunds).
- **Card details never touch soFunnels.** Buyers type them into Stripe's secure payment fields on your page.

## Test before you launch

1. Publish your funnel and open it in a private browser window.
2. Buy your own product with a real card, ideally at a low test price.
3. Check that the order appears as **Paid** on your **Orders** page and in your Stripe dashboard.
4. Refund the test order from Stripe, then watch the order change to **Refunded** in soFunnels.

> **Tip:** set the checkout price back to the real amount after your test, and publish again.

## Change or disconnect your account

On the Payment Gateway screen, **Open Stripe Dashboard** takes you to your account, and **Disconnect** removes the connection. Your checkouts stop taking payments until you connect again, so only disconnect when no funnel is live, or when you are switching straight to another Stripe account.

## Frequently asked questions

### Does soFunnels take a cut of my sales?

No. soFunnels takes 0% on every plan. Stripe charges its standard processing fee, as it would on any website.

### Which countries are supported?

soFunnels works through Stripe, so you can connect if Stripe supports businesses in your country; Stripe tells you during sign-up if it does not. Checkouts charge in US dollars, euros, British pounds, Brazilian reais, Canadian dollars or Australian dollars.

### Can I use PayPal?

Not at the moment. Checkouts take cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay through Stripe.

### Why do I need Basic or Pro to take payments?

Taking payments is part of the paid plans, alongside upsells, automated emails and your own subdomain. You can build and test the whole funnel on Free first.

## Related guides

- [Set up your checkout: prices, order bumps, coupons and payment plans](https://sofunnels.com/guide/checkout-setup.md): Set your product and price, add order bumps and coupon codes, sell subscriptions, payment plans and free trials, and choose what buyers see after paying.
- [Add one-click upsells and downsells](https://sofunnels.com/guide/one-click-upsells.md): Add a one-click upsell after checkout so buyers accept an upgrade without typing their card again, and route people who decline to a downsell.
- [Track orders, refunds and disputes](https://sofunnels.com/guide/orders-and-refunds.md): Find every order in soFunnels, understand each order status, issue refunds through Stripe, handle disputes and export your orders to CSV.

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Part of the [soFunnels user guide](https://sofunnels.com/guide.md). The whole guide in one file: https://sofunnels.com/llms-full.txt