Stripe Tutorial for Beginners | Accept Payments Online

About this video

This beginner tutorial shows how to set up a free Stripe account at stripe.com to accept debit and credit card payments on any website, including WordPress, Wix, and Shopify, by providing business details, bank information for payouts, and identity verification. The fastest first payment is a Payment Link: add a product or service with name, optional description and image, set tax options in business settings, choose one-off or recurring, enter the amount — Stripe adjusts pricing to the customer’s local currency — and set quantity. You can add more products to the same link, collect extra customer information like phone number or address to build a lead list, preview the checkout, and customize the confirmation page. The finished link can be copied to email or social media, embedded as a buy button with code, or turned into a free QR code, pitched as handy for in-person selling such as a street fair. Pricing is per-transaction with no monthly or annual fee: the creator states online sales cost 2.9% plus 30 cents, so a $12 candle nets $11.35, and payouts typically reach the bank in 24 to 48 hours, with an instant payments option and dashboard visibility into upcoming and failed payments. The tutorial then covers building a product catalog product-by-product — Stripe has no bulk CSV upload, though the API can be used for bulk uploads, Stripe Connect and tools like Zapier with HubSpot or Shopify are suggested — editing products later, and exporting to CSV. Customers are added automatically after a purchase or manually with billing details. Finally it builds an invoice: pick a customer and currency, add catalog items or new line items, set due date and scheduled send date, choose payment options or auto-charge a saved payment method, send by email or keep it to forward yourself, and personalize with templates, a memo, custom fields, a footer, PDF layout, and branding with icon, logo, and colors that carry across invoices, receipts, and pages, then track, download as PDF, and add private notes; the mobile app can also track sales and manage links, customers, and the catalog.

Key takeaways

• Stripe is free to set up with no monthly fee; the creator cites 2.9% plus 30 cents per online transaction, e.g. $11.35 kept on a $12 sale
• A Payment Link is the fastest first sale — share it, embed a buy button, or generate a free QR code for in-person selling
• Payouts typically arrive in 24 to 48 hours, with instant payments available and failed payments visible in the dashboard
• Build the catalog one product at a time — there is no bulk CSV upload; use the API, Stripe Connect, or Zapier for larger imports
• Invoices support scheduled sends, auto-charge for saved payment methods, and branding that applies across invoices and receipts

Episode details: published May 2, 2025 · 9:27 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kevin Stratvert’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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