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8:30 am–3:30 pm

Payment operations training (add-on)

  • Pre-conference training

Location

InterContinental San Francisco, Grand Ballroom

Details

Learn industry best practices for keeping payment programs healthy and high-converting. We’ll teach you techniques and strategies you can use to investigate the performance of your card payments program, so you can improve your bottom line through both cost reductions and revenue growth.

Learn about

  • Improving conversion rates through optimized checkout surfaces
  • Managing card payment costs when using IC+ pricing
  • Strategies for reducing fraud and improving dispute win rates

This course is for

Individuals who work adjacent to payments—for example, operations managers and data analysts—but who are not yet payments experts.

Level

Beginner

Duration

6 hours

Erick Nielsen
Nicole Pinto
Dominick Yin
8:30 am–3:30 pm

Billing implementation training (add-on)

  • Pre-conference training

Location

InterContinental San Francisco, Ballroom A

Details

Learn to use Stripe Billing to simplify the management and launch of subscription or usage-based pricing plans. We’ll walk through the process of developing a subscription and setting up usage-based billing, from configuring pricing to recovering lost revenue. Then, we’ll explore a variety of API flows through interactive demos and hands-on coding with Workbench, a Stripe developer tool. Finally, you’ll revise a demo application to practice making Stripe API calls for specific user flows.

Learn about

  • Designing both recurring and usage-based pricing models
  • Selling implementations using quotes and one-time invoice items
  • Deciding how your application should handle trials, upgrades, and downgrades
  • Dynamically responding to payment failures to help customers recover more revenue

This course is for

Developers with professional experience building web applications using Node.js.

Level

Intermediate

Duration

6 hours

8:30 am–3:30 pm

Connect implementation training (add-on)

  • Pre-conference training

Location

InterContinental San Francisco, Ballroom B

Details

Learn how to implement Stripe Connect to embed payments and financial services for your users. First, we’ll discuss how platforms (e.g., Squarespace, Mindbody) and marketplaces (e.g., Lyft, Instacart) can use Connect in different ways. Then, we’ll explore different API flows through interactive demos and hands-on coding with Workbench, a Stripe developer tool. Finally, you’ll revise a demo application to practice making Stripe API calls for specific user flows.

Learn about

  • Onboarding merchants and collecting KYC information to comply with payment regulations
  • Helping users manage their business through the Stripe Dashboard or embedded components
  • Managing merchant risk, reselling payments, and controlling payouts
  • Picking a merchant of record for payments in multisided marketplaces
  • Integrating Stripe Issuing to let users manage spend via virtual cards

This course is for

Developers with professional experience building web applications using Node.js.

Level

Intermediate

Duration

6 hours

4:00 pm–4:45 pm

Opening keynote: The future of commerce

  • Main stage
  • All tracks

Location

Main stage, Level 3

Details

Hear about the trends that will shape the next decade of payments and global trade.

Patrick Collison
John Collison
4:45 pm–5:30 pm

A conversation with Mark Zuckerberg

  • Main stage
  • All tracks

Location

Main stage, Level 3

Details

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will join John Collison to talk about how advanced technologies are reshaping the global economy.

Mark Zuckerberg
John Collison
5:30 pm–7:30 pm

Sessions welcome reception

  • Meals and receptions

Location

Expo hall, Level 1

Details

We’ll kick off Sessions 2025 in our buzzing expo hall with food, drinks, and music. Make new connections, see Stripe tools in action, and meet our partners.