
Payments infrastructure for global marketplaces and platforms
How it works
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Accept payments through Circle
Leverage a variety of different payment methods across traditional and digital dollar rails like USDC.

Payout recipients & sellers
Route funds, timed transfers and send programmatic payouts through traditional rails or leverage the global nature and near-instant settlement capabilities of USDC.
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Onboard business sellers
Option for us to handle KYC and compliance requirements for business entities who sell on your platform.
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Manage your platform
Report transactions across your platform and keep track of activity and participants.

Flexible Funds Routing
Control how funds flow in your platform
Facilitate payments from buyers and payout sellers on your platform. Offer direct settlement to seller accounts and many more flexible funds flows.

GLOBAL FIRST
A global first platform for your international buyers and sellers
Your buyers and sellers come from many different countries and we can help through the power of digital dollars. Expand into new geographies by plugging your marketplace into Circle’s global transactional infrastructure.
shared payments information
Network effects built in
Share buyer payment details across sellers for a better user experience.
compliance
Embedded compliance & verification
We’ll onboard your businesses with our comprehensive Know Your Customer and compliance procedures.

FEES & MONETIZATION
Add a new revenue stream
As the marketplace owner, you can choose to collect a portion of sellers’ settled funds to diversify your business model**.

Developer-first tools
Integrating with Circle is not another legacy payment integration to your codebase, it’s re-imagined payments processing with the developer first in mind. Focus on building customer and product experiences with our production ready tools:
Get started in our sandbox
Build what’s next for payments, finance and internet commerce.
Read our API documentation
Build what’s next for payments, finance and internet commerce.
How Circle is used
Use Cases
Gaming, digital goods & content
Facilitate peer-to-peer payment and cash out activities for players, consumers and content creators.

customer highlight
Arcade City uses Circle for accepting card payments for riders as well as sending wire payouts to drivers and “guilds”. Our global-first platform native to USDC allows Arcade City to expand into new markets easily with one integration.
Learn how to benefit from our payments & funds flow infrastructure
Ready to get started? Create a Circle Account or get in touch.
**Surcharges imposed by Customer are subject to applicable law