Golang At Stripe — An Irish-American Financial Services and SaaS company

2 min readNov 3, 2022

Before we start with the understanding of how Stripe is using Golang, let us understand what is Stripe and Stripe Payment Gateway.

What is Stripe?

Stripe is an Irish -American financial services and Software as a service (SaaS) company. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin. Stripe primarily offers Payment Processing Software and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The services focus more in E-commerce websites and Mobile applications.

Now let us understand,

What is a Payment Gateway?

Payment gateway in simple terms is-

A Network through which your customers transfer funds to you.
A technology that is used by merchants to accept the debit card or credit cards from customers while purchasing goods online.

The payment gateway is either provided by a bank to its customers or can be provided as a separate service by a specialized financial service provider aka payment service provider (PSP).

A payment service provider (PSP) acts as intermediary between those who make payments, (consumers) and those who accept them (retailers)

Some of the most renowned PSPs are:

Adyen
PayPal and
Stripe

So What is Stripe Payment Gateway?

It is a famous payment gateway that helps in the financial transactions between merchants and customers. Accepts more than 133 countries' currencies. It is a powerful payment engine that makes money to move easily.

Millions of big company like Google, Salesforce, Uber ,Slack use Stripe payment gateway.

Go Stripe is The official Stripe Golang client library. Package stripe provides the binding for Stripe REST APIs. It has around 1.6k stars on GitHub

To know the Installation, Documentation, Usage, etc of Golang in Stripe visit Github

You can also read more articles about Golang Usage/Application here-

Golang At Stripe — An Irish-American Financial Services and SaaS company

Written by Reemi Shirsath