Stripe is the primary payment processor used by Apareé clients in North America and several non-EEA markets. The integration sits behind the payment wrapper, exposing the same charge / hold / release / refund / reconcile contract that the booking engine, the issue engine, and the move-in / move-out flow consume.

The integration uses Stripe's idempotency primitives and webhook delivery model to guarantee that financial events land exactly once in the building's ledger, even under retries and processor outages. Holds for amenity deposits and security deposits are issued through Stripe's authorization model and released on the schedule defined by the behavioral standard. Refunds are a first-class workflow, not a manual back-office task — the standard requires refunds to happen within a defined window, and the wrapper enforces that contract regardless of which processor sits behind it.

When a building swaps Stripe for Adyen, or vice versa, the consumers — booking engine, issue engine, onboarding — are unaffected. The wrapper is the only thing that changes.