# Runner + Stripe: revenue your team can see

> Connect Stripe and Runner reads your payments and customers, so a contact who pays becomes a customer and your growth team works toward real revenue.

Canonical: https://www.runtheworld.ai/integrations/stripe

Your growth team works toward real revenue: Runner reads Stripe, so a payment counts the moment it lands.

## What Runner does with Stripe

**Reads**

- Your payments and customers, history included.

**Does**

- Turns a contact who pays into a customer.
- Charts your growth level from what Stripe says you earn.
- Flags failed payments that stay unpaid.

**You approve**

- Reading needs no approval; any change to money waits for a person.

**Connects:** Paste a secret or restricted key on the product's Payments page. An owner or admin connects it.