Architecting a Multi-Sided Marketplace on Stripe Connect
The five architectural decisions that determine whether your marketplace payments scale cleanly.
Zeeshan
Founder · Published
The five architectural decisions that determine whether your marketplace payments scale cleanly.
Zeeshan
Founder · Published
A marketplace's payment architecture determines its ceiling for scale far more than its frontend stack does. Five decisions matter most.
Each decision constrains the next. Choosing Custom to maximize control, for instance, means you also own more of the dispute and compliance surface: a tradeoff that should be made deliberately, not by default.
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