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Connect Stripe

Connect Stripe and an approved commission run becomes money in your partners' accounts. Authorise, choose the scopes, and every payout stays traceable back to the deal that earned it.

4 min readAnimated walkthroughUpdated 28 July 2026

Before you begin

  • An account in Stripe that can authorise an integration.
  • Stripe Connect enabled, so partners can onboard and receive transfers.
  • A tier ladder with commission rates on it, since that is what a run prices against.
  • An Airstride account with access to the App Centre.
Step 1

Connect Stripe from the App Centre

Open Airstride's App Centre, select Stripe and authorise. The connect screen lists every scope before you grant it, and the write access it asks for is deliberately narrow: sending approved commission to connected partner accounts.

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1/4Open the App Centre in Airstride and select Stripe.
  1. Open the App Centre in Airstride and select Stripe.
  2. Check what Airstride is asking for. Nothing beyond this is requested.
  3. Authorise through Stripe.
  4. Connected. Airstride can see which partners are ready to be paid.
Step 2

Approve a commission run

A run collects every deal that reached a won stage in the period and prices each one against the tier its partner held at the time. You get a list with the working shown: partner, tier, rate, amount.

Then it stops. Nothing is transferred and nothing is posted until someone with approval rights releases the run, and the approval is recorded against it. That gate is the difference between automation you can defend in an audit and automation you cannot.

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1/4A run collects every deal that closed in the period.
  1. A run collects every deal that closed in the period.
  2. Commission is worked out from the tier each partner holds.
  3. Nothing moves until someone approves it.
  4. Approved. Stripe moves the money from here.
Step 3

Pay the partners

Airstride checks your available balance first, then sends each partner their commission to the account they onboarded themselves. Transfers are grouped under the run, so a payout can always be traced back to the deals that earned it.

A partner who has not finished Stripe onboarding is skipped and reported rather than failing the batch. You pay everyone who can be paid and get told precisely who could not, which is the behaviour that stops one incomplete profile holding up a whole quarter.

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1/4Airstride checks your balance before it moves anything.
  1. Airstride checks your balance before it moves anything.
  2. Each partner is paid to the account they onboarded.
  3. A partner who has not finished onboarding is skipped, not failed.
  4. Every transfer carries the run and the deal that earned it.

What stays under your control

Paying partners is where programs lose trust, so the guard rails matter more than the automation.

  • Nothing moves until a run is approved, and the approval is recorded against it.
  • Airstride checks your available balance before a run, so a shortfall stops the run rather than paying some partners and failing on others.
  • A partner who has not finished onboarding is skipped and reported, not silently failed.
  • Every line traces back to the deals that earned it, so a query is answered by opening the run rather than rebuilding it from exports.

The rest is done for you

Beyond the Stripe connection, Airstride handles your full setup within 24 hours of signup: partner data migrated with tiers and history, collateral connected, the portal white-labelled to your brand, SSO configured, the Partner Activation Agent trained, and your partners invited.

Common questions

Can Airstride move money without us approving it?

No. A commission run is calculated and then held. Nothing is transferred until someone with approval rights releases it, and the approval is recorded against the run.

How do partners get a Stripe account?

Through Stripe Connect onboarding, which they complete themselves from your portal. Airstride can see whether a partner has onboarded and whether their payouts are enabled, so a run never sends money at an account that cannot receive it.

What happens if our balance is short?

The run stops before any transfer is made rather than paying some partners and failing on others. Airstride checks your available balance as part of the run, so the failure is caught while it is still a warning.

Can a partner see why they were paid a given amount?

Yes. Every transfer carries the commission run and the source deal, so a payout can be traced back to the deals that earned it without anyone rebuilding the calculation from exports.

Which currencies are supported?

Whichever your Stripe account is enabled for. The payout currency is part of the mapping, so a partner is paid in the currency their connected account expects.

Where do the commission rates come from?

The tier each partner holds. Rates are attached to the rungs of your tier ladder, and a run prices against the tier the partner held when the deal closed. See invite partners and set what they see for how the ladder is built.