How to connect Stripe to Claude Cowork

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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Stripe account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to create a new Stripe customer with email, generate a draft invoice for recent orders, cancel an active subscription at period end, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Stripe to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your Stripe account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to Stripe or give it any Stripe-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Create a new Stripe customer with email"
  • "Generate a draft invoice for recent orders"
  • "Cancel an active subscription at period end"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Stripe account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Stripe through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

What is the Stripe MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Stripe MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Stripe account. It provides structured and secure access to your payments platform, so your agent can perform actions like creating customers, managing subscriptions, issuing refunds, and generating invoices on your behalf.

  • Automated customer management: Effortlessly create, update, or delete Stripe customers—enabling streamlined onboarding and account maintenance through your agent.
  • Subscription and recurring billing automation: Have your agent create, configure, or cancel subscriptions, supporting trials, discounts, and advanced billing scenarios with ease.
  • Smart payment and refund processing: Allow your agent to initiate payment intents, confirm transactions, and issue full or partial refunds as needed, all through secure APIs.
  • Seamless invoice and price creation: Generate draft invoices for customers, create new products, and set up pricing structures—saving you time on manual billing tasks.
  • Advanced product and pricing management: Let your agent create new products and prices, helping you roll out new offerings or adjust monetization strategies with just a prompt.

Supported Tools & Triggers

Tools
Triggers
Cancel subscriptionCancels a customer's active stripe subscription at the end of the current billing period, with options to invoice immediately for metered usage and prorate charges for unused time.
Confirm payment intentConfirms a stripe paymentintent to finalize a payment; a `return url` is necessary if the payment method requires customer redirection.
Create CustomerCreates a new customer in stripe, required for creating charges or subscriptions; an email is highly recommended for customer communications.
Create an invoiceCreates a new draft stripe invoice for a customer; use to revise an existing invoice, bill for a specific subscription (which must belong to the customer), or apply detailed customizations.
Create payment intentCreates a stripe paymentintent to initiate and process a customer's payment; using `application fee amount` for a connected account requires the `stripe-account` header.
Create a priceCreates a new stripe price for a product, defining its charges (one-time or recurring) and billing scheme; requires either an existing `product` id or `product data`.
Create productCreates a new product in stripe, encoding the request as `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` by flattening nested structures.
Create RefundCreates a full or partial refund in stripe, targeting either a specific charge id or a payment intent id.
Create subscriptionCreates a new, highly configurable subscription for an existing stripe customer, supporting multiple items, trials, discounts, and various billing/payment options.
Delete customerPermanently deletes an existing stripe customer; this irreversible action also cancels their active subscriptions and removes all associated data.
List ChargesRetrieves a list of stripe charges with filtering and pagination; use valid cursor ids from previous responses for pagination, and note that charges are typically returned in reverse chronological order.
List Stripe couponsRetrieves a list of discount coupons from a stripe account, supporting pagination via `limit`, `starting after`, and `ending before`.
List customer payment methodsRetrieves a list of payment methods for a given customer, supporting type filtering and pagination.
List customersRetrieves a list of stripe customers, with options to filter by email, creation date, or test clock, and support for pagination.
List InvoicesRetrieves a list of stripe invoices, filterable by various criteria and paginatable using invoice id cursors obtained from previous responses.
List payment intentsRetrieves a list of stripe paymentintents, optionally filtered and paginated using paymentintent ids as cursors.
List payment linksRetrieves a list of payment links from stripe, sorted by creation date in descending order by default.
List productsRetrieves a list of stripe products, with optional filtering and pagination; `starting after`/`ending before` cursors must be valid product ids from a previous response.
List RefundsLists stripe refunds, sorted by creation date descending (newest first), with optional filtering by charge or payment intent and pagination support.
List Stripe shipping ratesRetrieves a list of stripe shipping rates, filterable by active status, creation date, and currency; useful for managing or displaying shipping options.
List subscriptionsRetrieves a list of stripe subscriptions, optionally filtered by various criteria such as customer, price, status, collection method, and date ranges, with support for pagination.
List tax codesRetrieves a paginated list of globally available, predefined stripe tax codes used for classifying products and services in stripe tax.
List tax ratesRetrieves a list of tax rates, which are returned sorted by creation date in descending order.
Retrieve BalanceRetrieves the complete current balance details for the connected stripe account.
Retrieve Charge DetailsRetrieves full details for an existing stripe charge using its unique id.
Retrieve customerRetrieves detailed information for an existing stripe customer using their unique customer id.
Retrieve payment intentRetrieves a paymentintent by its id; `client secret` is required if a publishable api key is used.
Retrieve a refundRetrieves details for an existing stripe refund using its unique `refund id`.
Retrieve subscriptionRetrieves detailed information for an existing stripe subscription using its unique id.
Search Stripe customersRetrieves a list of stripe customers matching a search query that adheres to stripe's search query language.
Update CustomerUpdates an existing stripe customer, identified by customer id, with only the provided details; unspecified fields remain unchanged.
Update Payment IntentUpdates a stripe paymentintent with new values for specified parameters; note that if `currency` is updated, `amount` might also be required, and certain updates (e.
Update SubscriptionUpdates an existing, non-canceled stripe subscription by its id, ensuring all referenced entity ids (e.

Available tools and triggers

After setup, the supported Stripe tools and triggers listed on this page are available to Cowork through Composio Connect.

You can now ask Cowork to handle Stripe workflows in natural language, from quick summaries and drafting tasks to more complex multi-step work across connected apps.

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FAQ

What are the differences in Tool Router MCP and Stripe MCP?

With a standalone Stripe MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Stripe tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Stripe and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Can I use Tool Router MCP with Claude Cowork?

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Stripe tools.

Can I manage the permissions and scopes for Stripe while using Tool Router?

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Stripe scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

How safe is my data with Composio Tool Router?

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Stripe data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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