Exciting Partnership Announcement: Apparel²¹ is Integrating with Stripe! Elevating Your Retail Experience with Modern Payments

We are thrilled to announce that Apparel²¹ is partnering with Stripe, a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. This collaboration is focused on seamlessly integrating Stripe's world-class payment technology into the Apparel²¹ platform, starting with their cutting-edge solutions for in-person transactions.

Who is Stripe?

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform that powers millions of businesses in over 45 countries. From startups to the world’s largest enterprises, Stripe provides the tools to accept payments online and in person, run marketplaces, manage billing, and much more, all from a unified platform.

Introducing Stripe Terminal and Tap to Pay

As part of this integration, Apparel²¹ customers will soon have access to two key solutions for modern in-person payments:

• Stripe Terminal: This solution enables you to accept in-person payments with Stripe’s fleet of pre-certified, secure card readers. Terminal helps unify your in-store and online payments data, making reconciliation, reporting, and customer insights simpler than ever.

• Tap to Pay: This feature, available via the Stripe Terminal SDK, allows you to accept contactless payments directly on a compatible iPhone or Android device—no extra hardware required! This is a game-changer for fashion retailers:

  • Mobile POS & Queue busting: Equip staff with a mobile POS to check customers out anywhere on the shop floor, especially during peak seasons.

  • Pop-up Shops & Events: Easily take payments at off-site events, trunk shows, or temporary pop-ups using just a phone.

  • Unified Data: All payments, whether taken online, via a Terminal reader, or using Tap to Pay, flow through the same Stripe account, giving you a single, holistic view of your customer and sales data.

Key Benefits for Apparel²¹ Customers

This integration is designed to deliver a modern, unified commerce experience, which means:

• Simplified Operations: Manage both your physical store and e-commerce payment data in one system.

• Modern Customer Experience: Offer the fast, secure, and flexible payment options customers expect, including contactless cards and digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay.

• Security & Compliance: Benefit from Stripe’s secure, global infrastructure, reducing your compliance burden.

• Faster Innovation: Leverage Stripe’s developer-first approach to easily adopt future payment methods and features.

Next Steps for Interested Customers

We are working closely with the Stripe team to finalise this powerful integration. We know many of you will be eager to learn more and be among the first to benefit!

To learn more about the integration and its availability, contact your Apparel21 representative or email us at crm@apparel21.com

To explore Stripe's products and see what a unified payment platform can do for your business:

• Visit the official Stripe website: stripe.com

• Learn more about Stripe Terminal and Tap to Pay: stripe.com/terminal

• Direct Contact with Stripe:

  
  

  • If you're a prospective customer or want to discuss Stripe's solutions for multi-channel commerce at an enterprise level, you can reach the Stripe Sales team here: stripe.com/contact/sales. Be sure to mention you are an Apparel²¹ customer!

We look forward to bringing this exciting new capability to you and helping you future-proof your payment infrastructure!