1. Stripe provides several APIs, on the customer side, Stripe allows the customers to check out to pay instantly on the merchant's website without being redirected to another website for the transaction. On a mobile phone, it makes transaction even easier. As for the merchant's side, it allows the merchants to see all of the transactions made on one page. As for start-ups and small companies, Stripe provides clear documentation so that both developers and non-developers could understand code and client libraries to allow software developers to understand coding language