Integration · Light and Stripe Billing
Light and Stripe Billing
Stripe Billing and Light do different jobs, and work best together. Stripe Billing runs subscriptions and gets you paid: flat, tiered, volume and usage pricing, hosted invoices, automated collection with Smart Retries, tax automation and 135+ currencies. Light is the agentic ERP that runs the books after the payment: Light's Stripe integration syncs every finalised Stripe invoice, payment and credit note into the ledger as it happens, and Light adds the general ledger, AP and vendor payments on local rails in 80+ countries, corporate cards and expenses, revenue recognition and multi-entity consolidation.
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Who does what: Light and Stripe Billing
| Feature | Light | Stripe Billing |
|---|---|---|
| Card and online payment processing | No | Yes |
| Automated retries on failed card payments | No | Yes |
| Stripe invoices, payments and credit notes in the same ledger as AP, cards and expenses | Yes | No |
| Company-wide general ledger and financial statements across revenue and spend | Yes | No |
| Revenue recognition under IFRS 15 and ASC 606Stripe Billing: Stripe Revenue Recognition, a paid add-on | Yes | Yes |
| Accounts payable, vendor payments, cards and expensesStripe Billing: Not part of Stripe Billing | Yes | No |
| Multi-entity consolidation | Yes | No |
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Remove 4+ tools
700+ apps
The world's most demanding finance teams run on Light.
Stripe gets you paid, Light runs the books
Keep Stripe for subscriptions, checkout and collecting payments. Light is where everything after the payment lives: the ledger, the close, revenue recognition and reporting, with AP, cards and expenses in the same system.
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What syncs from Stripe
Light connects to Stripe with an API key and receives Stripe events as they happen. Each finalised Stripe invoice becomes a sales invoice in Light, payments are recorded on the matching invoice, credit notes become customer credits, and voids carry over. Customers and products are matched, the original Stripe PDFs are attached, and your Stripe balance can be connected as a bank feed for reconciliation.
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Charge Light invoices through Stripe
Invoices you raise in Light can be collected through Stripe too. The customer saves a payment method once through a Stripe checkout link, Light charges it when the invoice falls due, and the invoice is marked paid once the Stripe payout is reconciled through the Stripe bank feed.
How Light and Stripe work together
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Every Stripe invoice in the ledger
Finalised Stripe invoices arrive in Light as sales invoices, with payments, credit notes and voids synced as they happen.
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Revenue recognized in the books
Light manages IFRS 15 and ASC 606 revenue recognition with pre-built templates, on the same ledger as the invoices.
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Everything else in one system
AP, vendor payments, corporate cards, expenses and multi-entity consolidation sit next to your Stripe revenue.
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Built for the daily work
Bills through to payment
Capture invoices, route approvals and pay vendors from the same system.
Room to grow
One ledger built to handle billions of transactions across your business.
Trace every number
Open a report and drill straight into the transactions behind it.
Spending, under control
Expenses, vendors and cards connected to your ledger.
Expenses
Collect receipts, approve expenses and track spend as it happens.
Vendors
Keep supplier details, bills and approvals together. Apply your purchasing rules as work moves through.
Cards
Issue cards for employees and vendors. Pay with Apple Pay or Google Pay. Send receipts through Slack, Teams or email.
Frequently asked questions
Do we replace Stripe if we move to Light?
No. Light works alongside Stripe: keep Stripe for payments and billing, and Light syncs Stripe invoices, payments and credit notes into the ledger.
Is Stripe Billing a general ledger?
No. Stripe Revenue Recognition keeps a revenue sub-ledger and exports journal entries to a general ledger; Stripe invoices and payments sync into an accounting system such as Light.
Can Light collect payment through Stripe?
Yes. Light charges your sales invoices through Stripe using the customer's saved payment method, and the payment is recorded on the invoice.
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