Connecting Stripe

Stripe is how money actually reaches your bank account. Until it's connected, you can build estimates and invoices all day but you can't take a card payment, run a service plan, or use Tap to Pay.

Flyra uses Stripe Connect, which means Stripe holds the payment details and handles compliance. Flyra never sees a card number.

1. Open Settings then Payments

Gear icon, then the Payments tab.

What you're looking at

The page has two independent integrations stacked on it: Stripe for taking payments, and QuickBooks Online for pushing the results into your accounting. They're separate. Connecting one does nothing to the other.

2 and 3. Two ways in

Create New Stripe Account starts a brand new Stripe account from inside Flyra. Pick this if you've never used Stripe.

Sign In to Existing Stripe links an account you already have. Pick this if you're already taking card payments somewhere else, because it keeps your payout history and your existing bank details in one place.

Either way Flyra hands you to Stripe's own onboarding, you finish it there, and Stripe sends you back.

Finishing a half-done setup

Stripe onboarding asks for real business details: legal entity, tax ID, bank account, and usually an ID document. It's normal to start it and stop partway, and Flyra remembers.

When that happens the card changes to Finish connecting Stripe and shows your Account ID, Email, Stripe Country and Status, with an Account Capabilities breakdown underneath telling you exactly what's still switched off. Complete Setup drops you back into Stripe where you left off.

Until every capability is enabled, you cannot charge cards. A half-connected account looks connected at a glance, so read the Status line rather than assuming.

How Stripe Connect works

Below the buttons is a short explainer of the arrangement. The part that matters: your customers pay Stripe, Stripe pays you on its normal payout schedule, and Flyra records the payment against the invoice. Flyra is the front end, not the money handler.

QuickBooks Online

A separate card at the bottom, and a separate connection. It syncs your customers and collected payments into QuickBooks so you're not typing them twice.

Do this after Stripe, not instead of it. Stripe collects the money, QuickBooks records it.

Tips and gotchas

• Have your details ready before you start. Legal business name, tax ID, bank account, and photo ID. Stripe will ask, and stopping halfway leaves you with the "Finish connecting" state.

• Check Account Capabilities, not just Status. Charges and payouts are enabled separately, and one can be live while the other isn't.

• Deleting the Stripe account here unlinks it from Flyra. It's on this page, and it's not a button to explore casually.

• Payout timing is Stripe's, not Flyra's. Marking an invoice paid in Flyra does not move money any faster.

• Existing Stripe user? Sign in rather than creating new. Two accounts means split payouts and split reporting.

Next up: Building your price book