One-day hackathon primer

Ship a revenue-ready product before sundown.

The Stripe tools worth reaching for when you have hours, not weeks. Pick one, wire it up, demo it.

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01Accept payments

Optimized Checkout Suite

Go from zero to taking money in minutes. Pick the level of control you need.

Payment Links
No-code. Share a URL, get paid.
Checkout
Hosted, conversion-optimized payment page.
Elements
Embeddable UI components for custom flows.

Hack tip · Native WebMCP support built in — agents can drive Checkout directly. Fastest human path: a Payment Link in under 60 seconds.

02Recurring revenue

Billing

Model any pricing — flat, tiered, seat-based or usage-based.

Subscriptions
Recurring plans, trials, upgrades and proration.
Invoices
Send, collect and reconcile one-off or recurring invoices.

Hack tip · Invoices, subscriptions and more are all available via the Stripe MCP — let your agent create them for you.

03Pay-per-use

Machine Payments Protocol

Charge per API call. Let machines and agents pay each other programmatically.

Metered APIs
Price each request, settle automatically.
Agent-to-service
Agents pay for the tools they call.

Hack tip · Great for AI tools: monetize every inference or endpoint hit.

04Agentic commerce

Link Agent Wallet

Give agents a secure way to pay on a user's behalf — with guardrails.

Scoped credentials
Spend limits and merchant controls.
User approval
Humans stay in the loop for sensitive buys.

Hack tip · Demo idea: an agent that books, buys or tops-up autonomously.

05Infrastructure

Stripe Projects

Rapid, agentic provisioning of the services your app needs — from one CLI.

One command
Spin up hosting, DB, auth and more.
Unified billing
Every provider billed through Stripe.

Hack tip · Skip the setup hour. Provision your whole stack before lunch.

06 · Partners

Give your agents hands — and a wallet.

Browser Use
Open-source agents that drive real browsers.
Browserbase
Headless browser infrastructure at scale.
Kernel
Fast, sandboxed browsers for agents.
Vercel Eve + Link
Spin up your own Instinct super-agent with built-in payments.
AgentMail
Email inboxes built for AI agents.
AgentPhone
Phone numbers and calling for agents.
Exa
Search engine built for AI.
Firecrawl
Turn any website into LLM-ready data.

Stripe CLI cheat sheet

Build fast. Charge on day one.

Get started
$ stripe login
$ stripe sandbox create
Provision your stack
$ stripe projects init
$ stripe projects add supabase
$ stripe projects add vercel
$ stripe projects add resend
$ stripe projects add openrouter
Take a payment
$ stripe payment_links create \
    --line-items price=price_123
Send an invoice
$ stripe invoices create \
    --customer cus_123 \
    --collection-method send_invoice \
    --days-until-due 7
Link Agent Wallet
$ npm i -g @stripe/link-cli
$ npx skills add stripe/link-cli
$ link-cli spend-request create --schema
Stripe Directory (agent discovery)
$ stripe directory search "email sending api"