At Stripe Sessions 2025, we’re previewing a few new tools that will allow developers to build apps that are more deeply integrated to Stripe.
Extensibility
We’ve invested in our internal extensibility platform to allow third-party developers to build on top of it and enable greater customization for all users.
The first apps launched are from our tax calculation partners, Avalara, Anrok, and Sphere. Previously, tax calculation in Stripe products was limited to Stripe Tax. Now, with these new extensions, users can plug in one of these tax calculation apps at runtime. These extensions call out to the third-party tax provider for real-time tax calculation and are powered by our internal extensibility platform.
These tax calculation extensions are just the start. We’ll also be adding more extension types, like the ability for Workflows to call out to third-party services. We’re continuing to invest in internal platform primitives to enable rapid external innovation. Stripe’s commitment to extensibility is a multi-year vision.
Breaking out of the app drawer
Today, the app experience mostly exists in the app drawer, a popout sidebar in the Stripe Dashboard:
We want developers to be able to build apps that feel truly native in the Stripe Dashboard. With our new components, developers will be able to build better onboarding journeys and bring apps directly into dashboard pages for richer interactions, blurring the line between Stripe and third-party apps.
This set of capabilities enables app developers to create custom onboarding journeys in Stripe, surface app data in the Customers list, and create app experiences that surface directly on the Customer detail page.
In this example from a shipping app below, shipping history appears right in the Customer detail page:
If you’re interested in previewing new app components and capabilities, sign up to request early access.