Issuing CreditPrivate preview
Apply your platform Issuing account balance or platform exposure limit to cards issued to your connected accounts.
Caution
This API is currently in beta. Field names or high-level concepts might change with later releases.
To get access to the Credit APIs, pass the following header in all API requests:
Stripe-Version: <your stripe version>;issuing_
You can apply your platform’s Issuing funds towards authorizing and funding the transactions on your connected accounts if the connected account’s balance doesn’t hold sufficient funds.
This enables funding your connected accounts when needed for spend instead of requiring them to maintain their own issuing balance based on anticipated cardholder spend.
With our Credit APIs (CreditPolicy API and FundingObligation API), you can allow your connected accounts to access a line of credit. Use the Credit APIs to implement the following use cases:
- Set credit limits for each connected account through a
CreditPolicy
. - Set repayment terms for each connected account through a
CreditPolicy
. - Track and manage each account’s credit usage through a
FundingObligation
.
Stripe isn’t offering the credit in this structure. Instead, you provide a charge card-like integration to your connected accounts by extending credit to them through your platform Issuing account balance.
Get access to the Issuing Credit beta 
Contact your Stripe account representative or sales to access to the Credit APIs.
Use the Credit APIs to build a capital-efficient charge card integration. The following concepts and examples use Gymbox, a fictitious wellness platform that offers credit and Stripe issued cards to gyms. Learn how to: