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title: "Connecting Stripe and taking card payments · BlastoClean docs"
description: "Link your own Stripe account through Stripe Connect, save a card on file, bill automatically on completion — and what BlastoClean does and does not take a cut of."
url: "https://www.blastoclean.com/docs/connecting-stripe"
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# Connecting Stripe and taking card payments

Getting paid · Web app · 2 min read · updated August 13, 2026

**Link your company’s own Stripe account in a couple of clicks with no API keys to paste; payments settle directly to you, and BlastoClean adds no fee of its own on top of Stripe’s.**

![The payments section of Settings, showing the option to connect a Stripe account](/images/docs/settings-payments.webp)

## Your Stripe account, your money

Card processing works through **Stripe Connect**: you link your company's own
Stripe account in a couple of clicks, with no API keys to paste anywhere.

Two things follow from that, and they are the whole design:

- **Payments settle directly into your own Stripe account.** Your money never
  passes through us.
- **BlastoClean adds no fee of its own.** You pay Stripe's processing fees and
  nothing on top. Card processing is part of every paid plan.

If you would rather add a fee of your own for paying by card, you can — see
[Tips, fees and refunds](/docs/tips-fees-and-refunds), including the rule that
it has to be disclosed before the customer pays.

On the Business plan a location that banks separately can have its own payment
account. See [Setting up your company](/docs/setting-up-your-company).

## Card on file

A customer saves a card once, through **Stripe's own hosted page**. You never
see or store the card number, and neither do we — what comes back is a token
that can charge that card, nothing that could be read out over the phone.

## Billing when the visit is done

With a card on file, you choose per company how billing works:

- **Automatic** — mark the visit complete and the card is charged.
- **Manual** — charge it with one click when you are ready.

Per-visit prices stay under your control either way, including the
[price changes scheduled ahead of time](/docs/recurring-schedules) on a series.

Every successful charge produces a **branded PDF receipt** with your logo,
emailed to the customer automatically and kept, so it can be re-sent whenever
somebody asks.

## No Stripe account at all

You do not need one. Recording cash, checks, bank transfers and any method you
define works on every paid plan with nothing connected — see
[Invoices and payments](/docs/invoices-and-payments) and
[Taking payment in person](/docs/taking-payment-in-person). Connecting Stripe
adds cards; it is not the price of entry.