valantic is an official Stripe Payments Specialized Partner – what’s behind it?

Over the past year and a half, valantic has intensified its cooperation with Stripe’s Professional Services team, which supports companies with customized solutions and consulting for the implementation of the Stripe product suite and the optimization of existing Stripe integrations. The seal of approval as a Stripe Payments Specialized Partner confirms valantic’s outstanding competence in the successful realization of implementation or optimization projects and in the activation of Stripe business users. Find out exactly what is behind the seal in this article.

Who is Stripe?

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.

As a unified platform designed to solve all the undifferentiated complexity of money movement—not just accepting payments, but manyof the actions a business will need to take with money—Stripe enables businesses around the world to enter new markets, build new revenue streams, and optimize their customers’ experience. Stripe obsesses over the complexities of financial infrastructure so that users canfocus on building and optimizing.

Companies of all business models use Stripe’s software and APIs to accept payments, send payouts, prevent fraud, manage revenue,analyze data, and provide financial services to their users.

Stripe puts users first, understanding that businesses built on its software depend on Stripe for reliability, security, and reporting. Stripe’s success is dependent on the success of Stripe’s users, so the needs and problems of those users are always front and center.

Stripe envisions a future where businesses around the world are able to launch quickly, find product/market fit, and build onsoftware and APIs that are constantly improving to support the evolving needs of those businesses. The challenges facing businesses are myriad andmultiplying. Stripe helps users anticipate and stay ahead of those challenges, providing the tools, payment methods, and reliability requiredto successfully operate in the digital economy of today and the future.

What role does valantic play as an implementation partner?

Potential users often fail to get Stripe products up and running to their full potential or struggle with a slow go-live process because they don’t have the resources or knowledge to drive the project forward. In our role as a Stripe Implementation Partner, we guide future Stripe users through the implementation of their Stripe products.

We use an industry and subject matter specific project management approach combined with deep technical Stripe product expertise for successful project implementation. We also provide developers if required. In the last six months, valantic has successfully managed and supported complex end-to-end delivery of large transformation projects in over 40 projects.

What is a Stipe Payments Specialized Partner?

Potential clients are looking for partners with great expertise in the implementation of Stripe solutions. More than 20 valantic experts have already built up the necessary theoretical knowledge base through Stripe certifications. Complex implementations also require a great deal of practical experience. This is where the Stripe Accelerated Partner Enablement Program comes in, in which partners like valantic work side by side with the Stripe Professional Services team to realize complex implementations. Through a rigorous qualification process, Stripe identifies the most competent and professional partners – who can then implement even the most complex Stripe integrations with clients.

valantic has successfully completed the Accelerated Partner Enablement Program in close cooperation with the Stripe team and has thus become the first Specialized Partner in the DACH region in just four months.

“We are proud to be recognized as a strong payments partner for Stripe with immediate effect. Our collaboration has proven to be a perfect partnership that has provided both sides with valuable insights and learning experiences. We have grown into a strong team that works closely together to help ambitious companies optimize their financial infrastructure.”

^{Johannes Eckart, Managing Director Financial Services at valantic}