---
title: "Connect Stripe to OpenClaw"
description: "Authorize the Stripe connector so your assistant can query customers, payments, and invoices straight from your Stripe account."
updated: 2026-06-11
canonical: https://holaclaw.ai/docs/connectors/connect-stripe
---

Connect Stripe and you can ask your assistant about your business in plain language — how payments are tracking, who was invoiced, whether anything failed today. It reads customers, payments, and invoices from your Stripe account, so you get answers without opening the dashboard. (Your assistant is an OpenClaw instance running in a private VM on your Mac.)

```provider-card
name: Stripe
company: stripe.com
tagline: Query customers, payments, and invoices from your account.
hue: 270
auth: Sign in with Stripe
best-for: Checking on payments in plain language
```

> **Heads-up — keep this on a private assistant.** Stripe is financial data, and anyone who can chat with an assistant can ask it about the services it reaches. Connect Stripe to a work assistant you keep to yourself, not one that's open to other people on a shared channel.

## What you'll need

- A Stripe account you can sign in to in a browser. If your team uses Stripe, you'll sign in to the workspace whose data you want to reach.
- A **running** assistant. Connectors are set up per-assistant, and the sign-in happens inside that assistant's private VM, so it needs to be awake.

## Connect it

1. Open the assistant you want to give access to, and make sure it's running.
2. Click **Connectors** in the sidebar to open the catalog.
3. Search for `Stripe` to filter the list.
4. Click **Authorize** on the Stripe card.
5. Your browser opens **Stripe's own consent screen** — Stripe's page, on Stripe's site.
6. Sign in if you aren't already, review what's being requested, and **approve** it.
7. Switch back to HolaClaw. The connector verifies the connection, and once it checks out it moves to **Active**.

For the full walkthrough and troubleshooting that applies to every connector, see [Connect a service](/docs/connectors/connect-a-service).

## Try it

With Stripe connected, message your assistant:

- *How did payments look this week?*
- *Find the latest invoice for Acme.*
- *Any failed payments today?*

## If it stops working

If the connector shows **Re-authorize**, your sign-in with Stripe has expired or you revoked it from Stripe's side. Click **Re-authorize** and approve again in the browser — nothing to reconfigure. For everything else, see the troubleshooting in [Connect a service](/docs/connectors/connect-a-service).

## A quick word on privacy

Stripe's access token lives **inside this assistant's private VM on your Mac** — never on HolaClaw's servers. Connectors are **per-assistant**, so authorizing Stripe here gives no other assistant access to it. You can also revoke access any time from Stripe's own authorized-apps settings.

## Next steps

New to connectors, or want the bigger picture? See [What are connectors](/docs/connectors/what-are-connectors). And if Stripe won't cooperate, the [HolaClaw Discord](https://discord.gg/FbxAbS5sGQ) is a friendly place to ask.