Get paid online: connect Stripe or PayPal to your invoices

Clients can pay your invoices online with your own Stripe or PayPal account. The money goes to that account. SkySuite checks your key and sets up the payment webhook for you, so there is nothing to set up in Stripe after you paste the key.

Connect Stripe

1. Open Settings › Finance › Payments · /settings/finance/payments. The page is called “Payment Providers”.
2. On the Stripe card, click “Connect Stripe”. (If your page shows “Connect with Stripe”, that signs you in to Stripe instead, with no key to copy; “Enter API keys” is the key route.)
3. Click “Open the Stripe dashboard” and copy your key from Developers › API keys in Stripe.
4. Paste it into “Secret key”, in this box only. Never email a key, put it in a Snippet Ticket or send it in a chat.
5. “Publishable key (optional)” is “Only needed to show Apple Pay / Google Pay buttons on your invoice page.”
6. Click “Connect Stripe”. SkySuite verifies the key, registers the payment webhook and saves the connection, then shows “Stripe connected”.

You need the “Settings → Manage” permission for your organization to do this.

Using a restricted key

The “Secret key” field also takes a Stripe restricted key (it starts with rk_). The page says a restricted key needs “Account: Read” and “Webhook Endpoints: Write”. Clients pay through Stripe Checkout, so give it Checkout Sessions write access too, then run a test payment (below). If the key can’t connect, the page says what to add.

Test it before real money moves

1. Connect with a test key (sk_test_ or rk_test_). SkySuite tells test and live keys apart, and the card reads “Test mode”: “no real money moves”.
2. Click “Test connection” on the card to check the key still works.
3. Make an invoice out to yourself on Office › Money › Invoices · /office/money/invoices and send it. On the invoice, click “Copy Pay Link” and open the link.
4. Click “Pay with Card” and pay with Stripe’s test card 4242 4242 4242 4242, any future date and any CVC. The payment is recorded on that invoice like a real one.
5. When it works, click “Disconnect”, then connect again with your live key (sk_live_ or rk_live_). The card then reads “Live”.

What your client sees

Each invoice has its own pay page, and the invoice email links to it. Your client sees the amount due and a button for each provider you connected: “Pay with Card” for Stripe and “Pay with PayPal” for PayPal, plus “Pay with Apple Pay” or “Pay with Google Pay” on a phone that has it, once you added the publishable key. When the client pays online, the invoice is marked paid for you.

Common questions

Do quotes get a pay button? No. On a quote your client clicks “Accept Quote”. Then bill the work with an invoice: the invoice carries the pay link.

How do I connect PayPal? On the PayPal card, click “Connect PayPal” and paste the “Client ID” and “Secret” from your PayPal REST app. Sandbox credentials connect in test mode.

Can clients pay with Square? Not yet. Square is listed on the page, but clients can’t pay with it, so use Stripe or PayPal.

I connected both. Which one is used? Clients see every connected provider and pick one. “Make default” chooses your default; “Pause” hides a provider from invoices.