Site Builder Documentation
A real, step-by-step walk-through of everything Stripe itself asks for, done entirely on Stripe's own site, so your Easy Life Sites page can really charge a real customer.
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On stripe.com
This is the very first account, made on Stripe's own site, before anything about your real business is typed in anywhere.
Open a new browser tab and type stripe.com into the address bar.
Sign in sits near the top of Stripe's home page. The page it opens has a Create account link near the bottom of the sign-in form.
Type your email address, your full name, the country your business is really in, and a password. This password belongs only to Stripe — it does not need to match any password used anywhere else, and should not.
Stripe makes the account right away and sends a real email to the address you typed.
Click the Verify email button inside it. Until this is clicked, Stripe treats the email address itself as unconfirmed.
This one screen covers three real things together: your business's own details, who really owns and runs it, and the bank account that gets paid. If you keep clicking through it now, each of those three gets filled in as part of this same flow. If you click away, or close the tab, or Stripe ends the session before you finish, nothing is lost — each of the three pieces can still be filled in on its own, and the three sections right below this one are the real, separate tutorial for each piece.
Already signed up, and skipped the rest of that screen? That's exactly what the next three sections are for. Each one is the real, separate path to finishing one piece of what Stripe asked for on that first screen, done later, on its own:
On dashboard.stripe.com, once signed in
Fill this in here if you signed up already and skipped past it, or if anything about your business changes later and needs correcting.
Go to dashboard.stripe.com and sign in with the email and password from signing up.
It sits in the upper right corner of the screen, near your account name.
Then click into Business details specifically.
Your legal business name, a registration number if your business has one (plus a "doing business as" name if you trade under a different name than your legal one), your business address, your business phone number, your industry, your website if you have one, and a plain description of what you actually sell.
Stripe reviews what you entered — this is part of what the law requires every payment provider to check, called Know Your Customer, so it is normal for this review to take a little time rather than finishing instantly.
On dashboard.stripe.com, once signed in
Stripe has to know, for real, who actually owns and runs the business getting paid — this is the law, not a Stripe preference, and it applies to every payment provider.
Same starting point as Business details above.
It's on this same Business settings area, usually below the business details fields.
Type their real name, date of birth, home address, and the identifying number Stripe asks for (a Social Security number or similar, depending on your country).
A notice appears asking for this, with its own upload button right there in the Dashboard — a driver's license or passport photo is typical.
Stripe checks everything entered. A real payout cannot go out until every real owner on the account is verified.
On dashboard.stripe.com, once signed in
This is the one real piece of information Stripe needs to actually send you the money a customer pays.
Same starting point as the two sections above.
It sits alongside Business details on this same settings area.
If you only take payments in one currency, there's only one to set up.
Stripe may ask you to confirm by email or by re-entering your password before showing this form.
Every one of these three has to match your real bank statement exactly, letter for letter and digit for digit, or the payout fails. The account has to be a checking account, not a savings account.
Only someone with Admin or Owner permission on the Stripe account can add, change, or remove a bank account — if this button is missing or refused, that's the real reason.
On dashboard.stripe.com, once signed in
A product is the real thing you're selling. Once it exists here with a price attached, that price is what an Easy Life Sites checkout actually charges.
Near the top of the Dashboard is a mode switch — a sandbox (a separate, fake play space Stripe gives every account for testing) or Live. A product made in a sandbox does not exist in Live, and the other way around, so know which one you're building in before you start.
Sometimes shown simply as Products.
Exactly as a customer should see it, for example "Easy Life Website Development Kit."
This is the one place to say plainly everything included — for a kit like the one above, that means spelling out that it includes images, content, Stripe setup, email setup, and domain setup, since the name alone won't say that.
Click the upload area on this same form and choose a picture file from your computer.
Stripe asks for a tax category so it can calculate tax correctly if Stripe Tax is ever turned on. If you're not sure which applies, the general default category is a safe starting choice, and it can be changed later.
One-time for something paid once, like a kit or a one-off job. Recurring is for a subscription that bills again on a schedule.
Flat rate means one fixed number — no tiers, no usage-based math.
For example 300.00, with the currency set to USD or whichever one you actually charge in.
Click into the saved product and find its price — a string starting with price_. That exact ID is what gets used anywhere a real checkout needs to charge this exact product at this exact price.
