splitfriday

Setup guide

Connect your website

Your website keeps doing what it does - showing your services, taking bookings. At the moment of payment it hands over to Splitfriday, the buyer pays on a secure Stripe page, and the split runs by itself. This page has no code on it; it tells you what to ask for and gives you the one link to send your developer.

Takes an afternoon of developer timeYou finish with: your own site taking payments that split automatically
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Understand what is being built (one paragraph)

When a customer on your site presses Pay, your site quietly tells Splitfriday who is owed what for this order. Splitfriday answers with a link to a secure Stripe payment page; your customer pays there and returns to your site. From that moment everything you have seen in the dashboard applies - the split, the hold window, the payouts, the paperwork. Your site never touches card details, which keeps you out of the hardest compliance territory.

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Check you have what the developer needs

  • A developer - in-house, your web agency, or a freelancer. This is a small, well-documented job: typically an afternoon, not a project.
  • An API key - created by you on the API keys page in the dashboard, shown once, and handed to the developer like a house key. You can revoke it there at any time.
  • Your recipients already added (each earner has an id the website uses to say who is owed a share) - see the recipients guide.
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Send your developer this brief

Copy the block below into an email or chat - it is everything they need:

Hi - we are connecting our site to Splitfriday, a split-payments service running on our own Stripe account. The integration is one REST call at pay time: POST an order (who earns what, in cents) and redirect the buyer to the Stripe Checkout URL it returns. Webhooks back to us are available but optional. Full reference with request examples, refund endpoints and webhook signatures:

https://splitfriday.com/docs

I will send you an API key separately. Please do not commit it anywhere - it can be revoked and reissued from our dashboard.

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Know when it is done

Ask the developer to demonstrate one full round trip:

  • a test order placed through your real website,
  • the payment made on the Stripe page,
  • the order visible on your Splitfriday dashboard with the right split,
  • and a refund of that test order from the order page.

You should now see

You watched a payment travel from your own website to your dashboard, split correctly. That is the acceptance test - if that works, everything works.

Next guide

Refunds, holds and payouts

What happens to the money after your site hands it over.