Payments and Billing Release Notes
Updates for payments, invoicing, subscription billing, and banking APIs.
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Latest Payments and Billing Updates
- Nov 10, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Nov 10, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Nov 11, 2026
Stripe and HSBC power Tap to Pay for UK small businesses
Stripe powers HSBC UK's new Tap to Pay offering, enabling eligible small businesses to accept supported contactless payments on compatible smartphones without a card reader, with setup through the HSBC Business Banking app.
LONDON – Stripe, the programmable financial services company, is powering a new Tap to Pay offering from HSBC UK, bringing payments infrastructure trusted by some of the world's largest companies to small businesses through their bank.
Eligible HSBC UK small business customers can accept supported contactless payments directly on a compatible smartphone, without an additional card reader. Businesses can get set up in their HSBC Business Banking app.
"Tap to Pay gives sole traders and businesses an additional, simple way to take payments using their phone. Helping serve customers wherever business happens," said Gavin Rees, Head of Innovation Banking at HSBC UK.
"Small businesses drive the UK economy, but payment admin slows them down. We can take that hassle away and give them better ways to get paid so they can focus on growing," said Marc Fryer, Head of Revenue and Growth UK & Ireland at Stripe.
Original source - November 2026
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- First seen by Releasebot:Nov 6, 2026
Bank payments on Payment Links
Square adds ACH bank payments to eligible US sellers’ Payment Links, letting customers connect accounts through Plaid, with subscriptions excluded.
Eligible US sellers turn on Automated Clearing House (ACH) bank payments for their seller-created Payment Links in Checkout Merchant Settings. Customers pay by connecting and authorizing a bank account through Plaid. Subscription Payment Links don't offer bank payments.
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- November 2026
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- First seen by Releasebot:Nov 6, 2026
Fire held courses from an Expo Kitchen Display System
Square adds countdown-based course release controls, letting kitchen staff fire held courses or cancel the action with a second tap.
Kitchen staff tap a course header to release a held course. A short countdown runs before the course fires, and a second tap during the countdown cancels it. Sellers turn this on per location in Square Dashboard under Service settings > Courses > Hold/fire.
Original source - November 2026
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- First seen by Releasebot:Nov 6, 2026
Hide $0 items from printed customer receipts
Square adds a receipt setting to control whether items rung up at $0 appear on customer receipts, while other records still list every item.
A Show $0 items setting in Square Dashboard receipt settings controls whether items rung up at $0, like a complimentary basket of bread, print on customer receipts. Paid items, items discounted or comped to $0, and $0 items with a paid modifier always print. Kitchen tickets, merchant copies, transaction records, reports, exports, and email and text receipts list every item either way.
Original source - November 2026
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- First seen by Releasebot:Nov 6, 2026
Select a Treasury Tipped Occupation Code on the Tax forms page
Square lets US individual and sole-proprietor sellers select an IRS occupation code for tip reporting on Form 1099-K.
US individual and sole-proprietor sellers who receive tips through Square pick one occupation code from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) list in Square Dashboard under Account & settings > Business > Tax forms. One code applies across all locations and can be changed until December 31, 2026. Square reports tip totals in Box 1c of Form 1099-K and the selected code in Box 1d.
Original source - November 2026
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- First seen by Releasebot:Nov 6, 2026
Set swatch colors while creating or editing an item
Square adds inline color pickers to item options in Dashboard, letting sellers set swatch colors while adding or editing items.
A color picker sits next to each color-based option on the item page in Square Dashboard. Sellers choose swatch colors as part of adding or editing the item, without opening the separate Options page.
Original source - November 2026
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- First seen by Releasebot:Nov 6, 2026
Split pooled tips by points assigned to each role
Square adds points-based tip pooling, letting sellers distribute tips according to team members’ assigned points alongside existing split methods.
Sellers assign a point value to each role in a tip pool, and pooled tips divide in proportion to those points. At the end of a shift, points for participating team members are added together, and each person's share follows their own point total. Points-based splitting sits alongside equal, percentage-by-job, and hours-worked splits, and point values are set under Staff in Square Dashboard.
Original source - November 2026
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- First seen by Releasebot:Nov 6, 2026
Switch between Square accounts from Dashboard
Square adds an always-visible account selector in Dashboard, letting owners and team members switch between multiple accounts without returning to Launchpad.
An always-visible account selector in Square Dashboard moves between accounts without a return to Launchpad. It appears automatically for owners and team members added to two or more Square accounts, and requires no setup.
Original source - Nov 5, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Nov 5, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Nov 6, 2026
Analyze your Stripe data directly with your agent
Stripe now lets users connect agents like Claude and Cursor to analytics data through MCP, Queries API, and Reports API, enabling natural-language business analysis with inspectable SQL and modeled reporting data.
As AI becomes a larger part of how teams work, users increasingly tell us they want to access and analyze their Stripe data directly with the agents they use every day.
Agents can now have structured access to your Stripe data to help you make faster, better business decisions. We introduced the ability for you to connect compatible agents such as Claude and Cursor to your Stripe analytics data via Stripe’s MCP or by using the Queries API and Reports API directly—now available for all Stripe users. With natural language prompts, you can do things like create an investor slide deck highlighting where your business outperformed in the previous quarter, or build a custom dashboard to understand why your Stripe revenue changed.
The Queries API is free for all Stripe users through January 31, 2027. After that, you’ll pay per credit of API usage, with no monthly subscription required. The Reports API will remain free.
How it works
To make use of your Stripe data, an agent needs to know which tables to use, how Stripe defines the relevant metrics, and how to construct the analysis. The Reports API has the modeled data schema of more than 300 tables, as well as built-in guidance for how the agent should use the tables, so you can get the most accurate and reliable analysis. If you want to better understand your subscriptions business, Stripe can route the agent to track monthly recurring revenue over time and attribute changes to upgrades, downgrades, churn, and anything else that is important for you to understand and take action on.
Once your agent has the relevant Stripe data, it can analyze the data alongside information from connected tools and relevant context from previous conversations. In Claude, you could bring together website activity from a PostHog connector, subscription data from Stripe, and context from earlier threads about a campaign to understand which customers clicked a button but later churned.
This type of financial analysis often informs important business decisions and investor reporting, so results from an agent need to be clear and verifiable. For each analysis with our APIs, you can inspect the underlying SQL, confirm how the result was calculated, and edit the query as your needs change.
Example prompts to get started
Explore and use your Stripe data with an agent using these example prompts, which you can copy or customize.
To answer accounting and finance questions:
- “Reconcile each payout from the past three months to its underlying payments, refunds, disputes, fees, and transfers. Show any amounts that do not tie out and the transactions contributing to each difference.”
- “Create an Excel file with all open and past-due invoices grouped by customer and invoice age from the last month. Flag customers with repeated collection failures.”
To track business growth:
- “Build a monthly recurring revenue dashboard for me to monitor MRR, expansion, contraction, churn, and reactivation, then explain the largest month-over-month changes by product and plan.”
- “How have our new promotions affected revenue this quarter?”
To understand and prevent fraud:
- “Set up a Slack notification when fraud rates go higher than my predefined range. Show trends by payment method and dispute reason, then highlight the segments with the largest increases.”
- “Find the payment segments with the highest chargeback rates over the past 90 days.”
To analyze payments performance:
- “Give me a visual report on my payments business over the past quarter, with charts of payment volume, success rates, failures, refunds, and disputes. Show the most important trends by payment method and market, flag notable changes, and summarize where performance is improving or needs attention.”
- “Find failed payments from the past 30 days that did not succeed within three days. Group them by decline reason and payment method.”
If you’re already connected to the Stripe MCP, you can get started by directly prompting your agent with one of the above examples. If you’re new to the Stripe MCP, open your agent and prompt: “Pull my Stripe data in” to get connected.
If you want to access Stripe data programmatically from your own workflow, you can get started with the Queries API or Reports API directly.
Original source - Nov 2, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Nov 2, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Nov 4, 2026
November 2, 2026
Plaid adds an optional Sandbox setting that makes an Item present a multi-factor challenge on every login attempt.
Added optional
Original sourcehas_perpetual_otpfield to the custom Sandbox user configuration object. When set to true, the Item behaves like one at an institution that presents a multi-factor challenge on every login attempt.