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Payments lets your website take payments. A customer presses a Buy button on your website and pays on Stripe’s checkout page. The money goes into your own Stripe account, and Stripe pays it out to your bank account. Payments lives in Build, under Tools. Ted does most of the work: he makes the products you want to sell and adds their Buy buttons to your website. Connecting Stripe, confirming what you sell and publishing your website are yours.
The Payments dashboard: a link to learn how payments work, your payout account, and your net revenue and customers from Stripe.

Payments once Stripe has approved your account.

Sell on your website

Ask Ted for a product and put its Buy button on your website.

Sales and refunds

See what sold, refund a sale and ship orders.

Test a purchase

Buy from your website’s preview with a test card. No money moves.

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How Payments works

Payments is powered by Stripe. When you set it up, Stripe makes a payment account for your foundable and checks your business details. After that, Stripe takes your customers’ payments and pays the money out to you. A product goes on sale when three things are true:
  • Stripe has approved your account.
  • Your website is published.
  • The product’s Buy button is on your live website. Ted adds it when you ask.
You can start before all three are true. Ted can make products first, and you can test a purchase in your website’s preview before you’re set up.

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Before you start

  • The owner or an admin starts setup. Only the owner can finish it with Stripe.
  • Have your business details and bank account ready. Stripe asks for them.
  • You sell on a published website. You can set up Payments before you publish, but customers can only buy on your live website.

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Set up Payments

1

Open Payments

In Build, press Tools, then Payments. The card says “Ready to make your first sale?”On Home, the next step “Start accepting payments” opens the same place.
The Payments card before setup: Ready to make your first sale? with a Start accepting payments button, powered by Stripe.
2

Press Start accepting payments

If Payments asks for your Country and Currency, pick them first. Then press Start accepting payments.Foundable passes Stripe what it already knows, like your business name and your email, so you type less.
3

Finish with Stripe

Stripe’s own pages open once your account is made. Confirm the details Foundable sent, then add the rest, like your bank account. When you’re done, Stripe sends you back to Payments.If you leave before the end, Payments says “Finish setting up with Stripe”. Press Continue with Stripe to pick up where you left off. Only the owner can do this step.
4

Wait for Stripe’s review

Payments says “Stripe is reviewing your account”. There’s nothing to press. Payments checks again by itself and turns on once Stripe approves your details.
5

Add something to sell

Once Stripe approves, Payments shows your sales dashboard. Ask Ted for your first product. See Sell on your website.
The Payments card asking you to finish setting up with Stripe, with a Continue with Stripe button.
Already use Stripe? Sign in with your usual Stripe login. Stripe can reuse your saved business details and bank account. The new account sits beside your existing one in your Stripe Dashboard.

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What you’ll see while you set up

Payments always shows where your setup stands. You never need to refresh or check by hand.

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Where your money goes

You’re the seller. When a customer pays, the money goes straight into your own Stripe account. Foundable never holds it.
  • Payouts: in Payments’ words, “Revenue is paid out to your bank account on a regular schedule.” To check or change the bank account Stripe pays, the owner presses Manage payouts.
  • Fees: “Pricing follows Stripe’s standard rates.” Your Stripe Dashboard shows your earnings, refunds and fees. The owner opens it with Open in Stripe at the top of Payments.
  • Refunds and disputes: you can refund a whole sale from Payments. Partial refunds and disputes happen in your Stripe Dashboard. See Sales and refunds.
  • Taxes: “Foundable does not calculate or collect tax on your sales.”

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What Ted does, and what’s yours

Ted can

  • Suggest a product on a card, with the name and price you gave him.
  • Create the product once you say yes, or when you already told him exactly what to sell and for how much.
  • Make a test product before Payments is set up.
  • Add a Buy button when you ask, plus a footer with who’s selling and links to your policies.
  • Find a customer’s sale and show you a refund card.
  • Tell you how your sales are going.

Only you and your team can

  • Press Start accepting payments and finish Stripe’s pages.
  • Press Create product, or answer “yes” to Ted’s card.
  • Decide when your website goes live.
  • Refund a sale, on Ted’s card or in Payments.
  • Handle partial refunds and disputes, in your Stripe Dashboard.
  • Manage payouts and disconnect payments.
When a step is yours, Ted tells you in one sentence, with a link to it. While Ted runs your business in Run, he asks you only for what he can’t do himself. Connecting payments is one of those.

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Who can do what

Everyone in your foundable can see Payments. What they can change depends on their role: Where a button isn’t yours to press, Payments says who can, like “Only the owner can manage payouts.” To add people or change roles, see Invite your team.

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Disconnect payments

Disconnecting stops this foundable from taking payments with its Stripe account. Only the owner can do it.
1

Open the menu

In Payments, press … (More options) at the top right.
2

Choose Disconnect payments

It’s under “Danger zone”.
3

Confirm

Type DISCONNECT in the box, then press Disconnect. Payments says “Payments disconnected”.
Disconnecting is permanent. You can’t reconnect the same Stripe account to this foundable, and past payments aren’t refunded automatically. Your Stripe account and its payment history stay yours at dashboard.stripe.com.
To sell again later, press Start accepting payments. Stripe makes a new account in place of the old one.

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FAQ

No. Payments isn’t one of the features that need a paid plan. Ted’s work on your website, like adding a Buy button, uses your credits as usual. See Plans and credits.
Your prices are in your shop’s currency, the one your Stripe account uses. If you ask Ted for a price in another currency, he tells you so instead of converting it.
Yes. Everyone in your foundable sees your sales, including each buyer’s email address. Only the owner and admins can change what’s for sale or refund a sale.
Foundable deletes that foundable’s Payments records with it. Your Stripe account stays yours at Stripe. See Your foundables.

Sell on your website

Ask Ted for a product and add its Buy button.

Publish your website

Put your website online so customers can buy.

Tools

Payments and the other tools behind your website.

Invite your team

Add people and choose what each one can do.