# Integrate with Stripe for Advocate
Stripe is a software service provider for end-to-end billing, invoicing, payments, and subscription management. Advocate specifically integrates with Stripe’s invoicing and payment processing system. You can configure a credit-based reward that will automatically get pushed into Stripe and applied to the advocate’s next invoice.
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**Important:** Advocate's Stripe integration is set up differently from impact.com's affiliate Stripe integration and is currently incompatible. Refer to [Integrate with Stripe](https://integrations.impact.com/impact-brand/docs/integrate-with-stripe) if you want to integrate with the affiliate impact.com Stripe integration.
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## Understand the integration limitations
Advocate's Stripe integration only supports [custom reward units](https://help.impact.com/en/support/solutions/articles/155000001414-create-a-reward-unit).
* Credit, Cash, Discount, and Fuel Tank are not supported.
* Multi-currency support needs to be turned on for the reward unit.
## How it works
* In impact.com, you'll configure a custom reward unit.
* When a user earns a reward using the custom unit, the system automatically pushes the credit to Stripe.
* The credit is added to the user’s account in Stripe.
* Once in their account, Stripe will automatically apply the credit as a discount to their next invoice.
## Integration setup
### Connect your Advocate program to your Stripe account
The first step is to grant your impact.com account access to your Stripe account's live and test modes by using *Stripe Connect*.
1. In impact.com, from the top navigation bar, select  **\[User profile] →** [**Settings**](https://app.impact.com/secure/advertiser/account-settings-flow.ihtml).
2. In the left column below *Advocate Settings*, select **Integrations**.
3. Scroll down to *Stripe Integration*, select :plus: **\[plus]** to expand the section and then select **Enable Stripe**.
4. Select **Connect to Stripe**, which will open a pop-up window prompting you to log in with your Stripe credentials. This will authorize Advocate to add credit to your customer accounts in Stripe.
### Configure custom Stripe reward units
The Stripe Integration supports the fulfillment of alternative reward units as long as it is specified in the Stripe Configuration and a valid currency code is appended.
1. In impact.com, from the top navigation bar, select  **\[User profile] →** [**Settings**](https://app.impact.com/secure/advertiser/account-settings-flow.ihtml).
2. In the left column below *Advocate Settings*, select **Integrations**.
3. Navigate to the *Integrations* page.
4. On the *Stripe Integration* card, expand the card and select **Custom** from the drop-down menu.
5. In the empty text box, add a `Reward Unit/Currency` in this format, e.g., `STRIPE/USD`.
6. Select **Save**.
### Connect Advocate users
For a customer to have their rewards fulfilled by Stripe, you must link their Advocate User Account with their Stripe Customer ID (e.g. `cus_FpRWZEB4b77zAI`). Refer to Stripe's documentation on [managing customers](https://docs.stripe.com/billing/customer) via the dashboard or API or follow the steps below.
#### Create a customer in Stripe
1. Navigate to the *Stripe Dashboard*, and in the left navigation menu, select **Customers**.
2. In the upper-right corner, select **Add customer**
3. On the *Create customer* window, fill in the customer information.
4. Select **Add customer**.
5. Once the customer is created, select the customer's name.
6. Below the *Details* section, copy the **Customer ID**.
#### Add a user in impact.com
**1. Add a Stripe customer ID custom field to the participant profile**
You can include custom fields when importing new users or updating existing users in bulk. If the participant does not have a `stripeCustomerId`, the integration will not send the reward to Stripe. Refer to [Import Advocate Participants in Bulk](https://help.impact.com/en/support/solutions/articles/155000000869-import-advocate-participants-in-bulk) for more information.
**2. Add the Stripe customer ID to the participant**
After adding `customFields.stripeCustomerId` to the participant details page, add the Stripe customer ID to the participant. Refer to [User Upsert](https://integrations.impact.com/impact-brand/reference/openuserupsert) to use the API method.
1. From the left navigation menu, select  **Engage → Participants**.
2. Select the participant's name for which you want to add the Stripe customer ID.
3. On the *Participant Details* card, select **Edit**.
4. Scroll down to the *Custom Fields* section and in the `stripeCustomerId` text box add the Stripe customer ID.
5. Select **Save**.
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