The marketplace will launch with more than 50 apps, including one that allows users to convert Stripe payments into bitcoin in real time.
Stripe has released a new tool that allows third-party developers to create apps that can be added to the dashboard of Stripe users.
Stripe Apps enables businesses to create a custom app for their Stripe dashboard. These applications can also be submitted to the Stripe App Market to be shared with the fintech's user base.
According to the payments giant, this addresses a "fundamental difficulty" for growing businesses and has been a top client request.
"Stripe Apps makes it possible for the first time for businesses to customize Stripe," the fintech announced Tuesday.
It also facilitates the automated sharing of contextual information across applications, synchronizing systems of record and providing users with a more comprehensive perspective of their organization.
In the next weeks, users will be able to download apps from the Stripe App Marketplace, which will begin with more than 50 apps.
Accounting, analytics, e-signatures, and marketing are among the primary corporate activities for which many of these apps are created.
It will contain DocuSign, Dropbox, Intercom, Mailchimp, Ramp, and Xero applications. Over time, Stripe will introduce more partners and apps, as well as apps in additional languages.
One of the upcoming apps will enable users to change receiving payments into bitcoin in real time. The program, created by payment processor OpenNode, would enable users to convert a fixed percentage of incoming Stripe payments to bitcoin automatically.
This is Stripe's latest move in the cryptocurrency field; the company abandoned bitcoin in 2018 because of its volatility and slow transaction times.
In October of 2017, the firm cautiously re-entered the cryptocurrency market by establishing a specialized cryptocurrency engineering team.
Since then, it has partnered with global cryptocurrency exchange FTX and experimented with bitcoin payouts on Twitter.
Stripe, which was founded by the Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison, is striving to expand its offerings outside payments processing.
James Phillips, a Microsoft veteran, was recently appointed as the company's new president of financial services to expand its portfolio.
This month, the company introduced Stripe Financial Connections in the United States to enable businesses to establish direct connections with their clients' bank accounts.
Last week, Stripe Data Pipeline was also introduced in the U.S.; it synchronizes Stripe data with Amazon Redshift and Snowflake Data Cloud data warehouses.
