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Stripe Link

Link is a digital wallet built by Stripe. For returning Link customers, shipping address and payment credentials are already saved at Stripe, so checkout completes in fewer steps than a guest-checkout flow.

Stub page — capabilities beyond the returning-customer fast-path shape are out of scope of the 2026-03-12 ingest.

Agentic-commerce positioning

Per the 2026-03-12 Stripe retrospective, Link is repositioned as the answer to the agent-identity-resolution gap: because most agentic commerce today "still behaves like a guest checkout" with the buyer's identity materialising only at the buy moment, sellers lose their usual loyalty/personalisation/attribution signals. Link's saved credentials let an agent complete a purchase for a returning Link user "without exposing a shopper's personal or payment details" to the agent — the sensitive data stays within Stripe's vault while a scoped credential is made available to the agent.

This composes with SPTs: Link-vaulted credentials are the source of the payment method that an SPT then scopes to the agent's intent.

Seen in

• sources/2026-03-12-stripe-10-things-we-learned-building-for-the-first-generation-of-agentic-commerce — Link's agentic-commerce role framed as the returning-customer identity fast-path.

Related

• systems/stripe-agentic-commerce-suite — Suite integrates Link as the returning-customer checkout fast path.
• concepts/agent-identity-resolution-gap — the gap Link is positioned to close.
• concepts/shared-payment-token — downstream scoping mechanism that uses Link-vaulted credentials.
• companies/stripe — Link vendor.