Payments run through your own Stripe account, so the money your customers pay lands with you. This guide covers connecting it — either during first-time setup or later from the Integrations screen.
Where to Find This
There are two doors, and which one is open to you depends on whether you've been through setup:
- The first time — and the only door until it's done: Services → Onboarding → Setup Wizard → the Connect Payments step.
- Afterwards, once that step is complete: Services → Integrations → the Stripe Connect card. This is where you reconnect, disconnect, or check the connection later.
Until the Connect Payments step is finished, both Integrations and Services → Account → Payments Account are greyed out in the sidebar. Reach either by its address and you get the same holding screen: Complete Onboarding First, with a line explaining you need to connect Stripe in the onboarding wizard first, "Please visit the Onboarding tab to get started." and a Go to Onboarding button. That button is the way through — there's no connect button on those screens.
What You'll Need
- Your business details — name and address
- Personal details for identity checks
- Your bank details, so Stripe can pay you
- About 5 minutes
Connecting During First-Time Setup
Connecting payments is the third step of the setup wizard, right after you've chosen your design — so it comes after picking a launch pack, not before. Several tabs in the console stay locked until it's done.
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Open the wizard
Go to Services → Onboarding → Setup Wizard.
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Reach the Connect Payments step
The progress line at the top reads Step 3 of 7 · Connect Payments, and the panel's heading is Connect Stripe Payments.
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Click Connect with Stripe
The panel reads "Connect your Stripe account to start accepting payments securely," with a ? beside it adding "Supports all major credit cards, recurring subscriptions and automatic payouts." Click Connect with Stripe and you'll be handed over to Stripe.
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Complete Stripe's own setup
Stripe asks for your business information, personal details for identity checks, and the bank account you want to be paid into. Which fields you get depends on your country — Stripe decides that, not Bizzly.
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Come back
You're returned to the wizard. If Stripe is already linked when the step loads, you'll see a Stripe Connected card confirming it, with a Continue button; the wizard also moves you on by itself once the connection lands.
Bizzly reads your currency from the Stripe account you connect — its settlement currency — and prices everything you sell in it, so your catalogue is in the money your business actually settles in. The wizard names it for you when it confirms the connection: "Your prices will be created in [CURRENCY] — your Stripe account's settlement currency."
If you're building a simple landing page rather than a full booking business, the shorter setup path doesn't include a dedicated payments step. Its Configure Integrations step shows a Stripe Connect card too, so you can connect it there as a head start if you like — it just isn't required to continue. Outside the wizard, Services → Integrations itself stays locked until you've finished publishing your landing page (the last step before Launch Site); once you're through it, the Stripe Connect card is there waiting on that screen as well. See Landing Page Setup.
Connecting Later, from Integrations
Once the Connect Payments step has been completed at least once, the Integrations screen takes over — use it to reconnect after a disconnect, or to connect a different Stripe account.
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Go to Services → Integrations
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Find the Stripe Connect card
While it's unconnected it reads "Connect your Stripe account to accept payments and manage subscriptions."
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Click Connect Stripe
You're sent to Stripe to sign in or create an account and finish its checks, then returned to Bizzly.
Checking It Worked
Go back to Services → Integrations. On the Stripe Connect card:
- The description changes to "Stripe is connected and ready to process payments."
- The button turns green, reads Stripe Connected, and is disabled — there's nothing left to do.
- A Disconnect Stripe option appears alongside it.
You'll also notice the previously locked tabs open up, including Services → Account → Payments Account.
What Happens Next?
With Stripe connected you can:
- Take payments from customers on your website
- Watch transactions come in under Services → Account → Payments Account → Payments, on a card headed Payment History
- Follow the money to your bank under the Payouts sub-tab
Troubleshooting
The Payments Account tab (or Integrations) is greyed out That's the expected state before Stripe is connected — both unlock together. Go to Services → Onboarding → Setup Wizard and finish the Connect Payments step; the setup wizard is the only way in until that's done.
Setup interrupted? Nothing is lost. Go back to whichever screen you started from — the Connect Payments step in the wizard, or the Stripe Connect card in Integrations — click the connect button again, and Stripe picks up where you left off.
Stripe still wants information from you Stripe sometimes asks for more detail before it will release payouts. Finish those requests under Services → Account → Payments Account → Onboarding, which shows Stripe's own checklist.
Need to change your business or bank details? Use Services → Account → Payments Account → Account. That screen is Stripe's account management, embedded in Bizzly.
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- Viewing Your Payment History - Where your customers' payments show up
- Understanding Your Payouts - How the money reaches your bank
- Managing Your Products and Prices - Setting up what you sell