# Setting up your Stripe API key

The twosided platform requires a Stripe Secret API key in order to fully operate. You can use the Stripe integration using the account connection only, however you will have to deal with missing data:

* No personal data of suppliers and customers (only placeholders & customer IDs)
* Multi-split payments can't be supported
* No insights into aggregate supplier and customer locations

As this makes the twosided integration less effective, we recommend supplying an API key, or alternatively looking into substituting this information through our [REST API](/api-reference.md).

### Setting up a restricted key

Stripe allows you to set up a restricted key in their [developer section](https://dashboard.stripe.com/apikeys).

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It can be a good option to give looser restrictions to this key, to avoid breaking any integration when the twosided platform updates. At a high-level, we require the following permissions:

* All core resources – Read
* All core resources (Connect permissions) – Read
* All Connect resources – Read

You can restrict the key further to only allow for required resources to be accessible. However, note that this can lead to issues with platform updates later on.

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<summary>All required resources (Detailed, Latest)</summary>

* Balance transaction sources (Permissions & Connect Permissions) – Read
* Balance Transfers (Permissions & Connect Permissions) – Read
* Charges (Permissions & Connect Permissions) – Read
* Customers (Permissions & Connect Permissions) – Read
* PaymentIntents (Permissions & Connect Permissions) – Read
* Products (Permissions & Connect Permissions) – Read
* All Connect resources – Read

</details>


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