What is Stripe Checkout?

• A. A set of prebuilt UI components for collecting and validating user information.
• B. A merchant dashboard for managing subscriptions.
• C. A secure, Stripe-hosted payment page that lets you collect payments quickly.
• D. A sandbox environment for testing payments.

Answer: (C)

Stripe Checkout is a secure, Stripe-hosted payment page that lets you collect payments quickly. It’s a ready-to-use checkout experience hosted by Stripe, so you don’t have to build and host your own payment form. You create a Checkout Session on your server, Stripe provides a session URL, and you redirect the customer to that page to enter their payment details. Stripe handles the UI, validation, and payment method processing, plus security and PCI compliance, which speeds up setup and reduces your exposure to compliance work.

This isn’t the same as a set of UI components you embed on your site (that would be Stripe Elements), nor is it your merchant dashboard for managing subscriptions, and it isn’t just a sandbox for testing payments.