Connect Stripe

Stripe handles all payment processing for your job board. Once connected, employers can pay for job postings and subscriptions with credit cards, and payments go directly to your bank account.

Prerequisites

Have the legal business details, tax identifier, representative identity information, and payout bank account that Stripe requests for your country. Only an account owner or admin should connect or disconnect the board's payment account.

Connect your Stripe account

1. Go to Settings in the sidebar, then click the Payments tab
2. Click Connect Stripe to enable payments
3. You'll be redirected to Stripe to log in or create an account
4. Complete Stripe's onboarding (business type, address, tax ID, bank account, identity verification)
5. Return to Cavuno

The button text changes to Continue onboarding if you started the process but haven't finished.

Using an existing Stripe account

Connecting creates a Stripe connected account linked to your board, with payouts going to its configured bank account. On Stripe's onboarding screen, sign in with your existing Stripe email. Stripe can reuse eligible legal-entity information through networked onboarding, but not every account or field is eligible and Stripe may request additional details.

One thing that catches people out: simply being logged in to Stripe in another browser tab does not change the onboarding screen. You complete the connection by signing in inside Cavuno's onboarding flow itself.

Onboarding status

After connecting, the Payments tab shows three onboarding steps:

• Payments enabled: your board can accept credit card payments
• Onboarding completed: your business details have been verified
• Payouts enabled: you can receive funds to your bank account

All three must show Complete before you can fully accept payments. If the account is under review, the status shows In review. Stripe does not publish one review SLA for every account, so follow the requirements and timing shown in Stripe.

Disconnect Stripe

1. Go to Settings > Payments tab
2. Click Disconnect
3. Confirm the action

Disconnecting removes Cavuno's connection to the account and stops new Cavuno payments until you reconnect. Stripe objects can remain in Stripe, but Cavuno synchronization and subscription-based access can be affected. Resolve active subscriptions and invoices before disconnecting, or contact support if you need to move accounts.

After connecting

Once Stripe is connected and onboarding is complete, the rest of the Payments tab becomes active. You can create pricing plans, set up coupons, configure a job seeker paywall, and connect Google AdSense.

Example verification

For example, if Payments enabled and Onboarding completed are complete but Payouts enabled is not, do not launch a paid plan yet. Open the Stripe requirement shown for the connected account and complete it, then return to Cavuno and confirm all three states are complete.

Next steps

Create one private pricing plan and complete a test checkout before exposing the offer to employers. Use the Transactions ledger to confirm the resulting payment state.