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Connect Stripe

Send Stripe payments straight to your site — a donor wall, a fundraiser total, a private record of every payment, or all three.

Connecting Stripe needs a Pro site ($15 a month for that site). Plans and billing.

What this does

When someone pays you through Stripe — for example with a Stripe Payment Link — Lanlan picks up the payment within seconds and puts the parts you choose on your site:

  • A public list — a donor wall that grows with every donation (a collection).
  • A running total — a fundraiser thermometer that goes up with every payment (live data).
  • A private record — the full details, kept with your form messages so only you and your collaborators see them. Private records don't send you an email.

A typical fundraiser uses all three: a public wall, a public total, and private records for thank-you notes.

Set it up

It takes about 10 minutes, half in Lanlan and half in your Stripe account. Lanlan walks you through it in Tell Lanlan:

  1. Say what you want. "Connect Stripe to a donor wall — show each donor's first name and amount, and add it to the total on the home page."
  2. Lanlan sets up the connection and gives you a private address for Stripe to send payments to, with the next steps.
  3. In Stripe, go to Developers → Webhooks → Add endpoint. Paste the address, and choose the event checkout.session.completed.
  4. Copy the signing secret Stripe shows (it starts with whsec_) and paste it to Lanlan. It lets Lanlan check that payments really come from Stripe.
  5. Make a test payment in Stripe's test mode and watch it arrive on your site.

There's no Stripe page in the dashboard; to change what goes where later, ask Lanlan: "Show the donor's city on the wall too."

Which payment details you can use

Tell Lanlan which details matter. The common ones:

  • The amount and currency (for most currencies, Lanlan converts Stripe's cents into whole amounts for you).
  • The payer's name and email.
  • Custom fields you add to a Stripe Payment Link, like "In honour of" or "Keep my donation anonymous?".
  • Metadata your checkout adds to the payment.

Anonymous donors: add a Payment Link custom field such as "Keep my donation anonymous?". Lanlan can show "Anonymous" on the public wall when it's ticked, and still keep the name in the private record.

Anything you send to a public list or total is public. Lanlan doesn't filter personal details out for you, so choose carefully what to show.

What's supported

  • One-off payments — completed checkouts and successful charges.

Not supported yet

  • Subscription renewals. Monthly payments after the first don't appear on your site.
  • Refunds and disputes. They don't remove an entry or lower a total. Ask Lanlan to correct it by hand.

If either matters for you, email support and tell us what you're building.

What to try next

If you get stuck

Ask Lanlan. In Tell Lanlan, "I can't figure out how to…" almost always gets you unstuck. For anything Lanlan can't help with, email support.