Stripe is a payments and financial infrastructure platform that offers a suite of APIs, SDKs, and no-code tools for online and in-person commerce. It enables businesses to accept card and local payments, send payouts, manage subscriptions, and automate back-office financial workflows. Stripe provides developer tooling (client libraries, webhooks, test modes and mocks), prebuilt UI components for mobile and web, and data products like Sigma and Data Pipeline for analytics and ETL. Its value lies in combining scalable payment processing with integrations and tools that accelerate launch and financial automation for internet businesses.