Case Study: IDC achieves a 6.7% revenue lift and 24% lower payments costs with Stripe

The Business Value of the Stripe Payments Platform

Stripe is an API-first payments platform that helps digital commerce companies— from ecommerce and SaaS to multisided marketplaces—solve the pain of aging financial infrastructure, cross-border transactions, fraud, regulatory complexity, and the high cost of building and maintaining homegrown payment systems. IDC framed these challenges as barriers to faster onboarding, higher conversion, geographic expansion, and efficient use of developer resources.

Stripe’s suite (Payments, Connect, Radar, Subscriptions, Sigma, Atlas) streamlines integration, compliance, fraud prevention, payouts and global payment methods so businesses can move faster and reallocate staff. IDC found Stripe customers realized measurable gains: ~6.7% higher revenue, 24% lower payments platform costs over five years, a 59% increase in developer productivity, and 81% fewer unplanned outages—enabling faster market expansion and higher conversion rates.

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Jordan Jewell

IDC