The use case: how Kickstarter deploys Stripe Payments
Kickstarter uses Stripe Payments to process backer pledges and Stripe Connect to route payouts to creators across multiple countries and currencies. It also uses Radar for fraud prevention and the Payment Element with Link for its checkout experience.
More reported results
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in 6 weeks, 7.4% of payers used Link.
Stripe and Radar automatically blocked $9.5 million in fraudulent charges
Roughly 70% of Link transactions were from returning Link customers
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Using the Payment Element from the Optimized Checkout Suite has made it easier for Kickstarter to add new payment methods, which generated a 22% increase in average order volume.