Stripe Connect

What it means

Stripe Connect is the specific product within Stripe's broader platform that HypeRaise uses to route donations from individual donors directly to individual program accounts, rather than pooling every transaction into a single company-wide account. This is the same underlying infrastructure used by many marketplace and multi-vendor platforms that need to split payments across many separate recipients.

How it works on HypeRaise

Under Stripe Connect, each program using HypeRaise has its own connected Stripe account associated specifically with that program. Donations made to a campaign flow toward that program's own connected account rather than into a shared, undifferentiated company account that would then need to be manually divided up and distributed later.

Key details

This structure has a direct practical benefit for administrators: because funds are routed through the program's own connected account from the start, there is a clear, traceable path from an individual donor's transaction all the way through to that specific program's payout, without funds ever being commingled with another program's donations along the way.

Programs do need to complete account setup with Stripe, which typically involves verifying identity and bank account details, as part of connecting their program to receive payouts. This verification step is standard across any platform using Stripe Connect and exists to meet financial regulatory requirements around identifying who is receiving funds, not something specific or unique to HypeRaise.