From Black Friday through Cyber Monday, businesses on Stripe reportedly processed over 578 million transactions with a total payment volume of over $40 billion. It was said to be the largest 4-day period in Stripe’s history, capped by a solid Cyber Monday that saw more than “$10 billion in payment volume.”
Stripe also claims that over 150,000 users had their “best day ever, including Shopify, Lovable, Wix, and beehiiv.”
This year’s BFCM was also the most global, by far: cross-border transaction volume over BFCM grew “37% year over year, up from $3.2 billion to more than $4.4 billion.”
As ecommerce activity surged, Stripe’s API maintained “an uptime of more than 99.9999%, and more than 24.6 million attempted fraudulent transactions were prevented by Stripe Radar.”
Rob Frieman, Chief Information Officer at URBN said that their customers expect seamless checkout online and in stores during BFCM. Stripe’s performance and stability “help them deliver that consistency at scale,”
Frieman added that over the Black Friday weekend, they “saw nearly 2 million site visits every day.”
They also stated that in that “high-pressure environment, technical reliability is what matters most.”
Jean-Cédric Costa, Chief Information Officer at La Redoute said that Stripe allows them to stay “focused on the customer experience as we continue into Cyber Week, which started off with over 1.5 million site visits on Monday,”
More BFCM by the numbers
- More than 152,000 transactions per minute at peak volume\
- Top currency volumes were US dollars, euros, British pounds, Australian dollars, and Canadian dollars
- Top-selling cities were New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London
- 2.7 million minutes—more than five years—were saved by consumers using Link, Stripe’s consumer wallet
Stripe tracked Model Context Protocol (MCP) usage to show “how developers use LLMs and AI agents to interact directly with the Stripe API.”
The top form of MCP usage came from developers using AI tools to update their product and pricing details during “this particularly intense shopping period. 41% of usage related to requests to “Manage Products and Pricing”; 38% to “Search”; 16% to “Manage Subscriptions and Invoices”; 4% to “Tracking Customers”; and 1% to “Refunds and Disputes.””
To track real-time BFCM data and highlight the businesses running on Stripe, Stripe built a physical model city featuring “more than 100 users like Samsonite, BMW Group, Marriott, Ramp, Cursor, Coinbase, ElevenLabs, Rivian, and Harry’s.”