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Create a custom workflow

Transform every Stripe payment event into instant AI-powered intelligence with Perplexity AI. Automatically generate customer insights, personalized communication strategies, and financial research the moment transactions occur—no manual data handling required, just automation that turns your payment data into actionable business intelligence

Create a custom workflow

Every automation starts with a trigger and an action. Select one from each app to generate a workflow tailored to your needs.

Stripe
Trigger: Watch Events
Perplexity AI
Action: Select an action
1. Select a trigger

  • Triggers when a given event occurs.

2. Select an action

  • Creates a chat completions with the chosen model.

  • Generate a response for the provided input with optional web search and reasoning.

  • Generate contextualized embeddings for document chunks. Chunks from the same document share context awareness, improving retrieval quality for document-based applications.

  • Generate vector representations (embeddings) for the text you provide.

  • Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.

Select a trigger and an action

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Triggers and actions

Perplexity AI functions as a trigger in this integration, monitoring events such as new payments received, subscription changes, or other financial activities in your account. When these specified Perplexity AI events occur, they automatically activate Stripe as an action, which then uses its advanced artificial intelligence capabilities to perform tasks such as generating intelligent customer analysis reports, creating personalized communication strategies, or automating research tasks related to your financial data. This automated workflow eliminates manual data transfer between systems and enables AI-powered insights to be generated instantly in response to your Perplexity AI payment events

Cancel a Payment Intent
Cancels a payment intent by its ID. For payment intents with status ’requires_capture’, the remaining capturable amount will automatically be refunded.
Action
Cancel a Payout
Cancels a previously created payout.
Action
Capture a Charge
Capture the payment of an existing, uncaptured, charge.
Action
Capture a Payment Intent
Captures an existing uncaptured payment intent by its ID.
Action
Confirm a Payment Intent
Confirms a payment intent by its ID. Upon confirmation, the payment intent will attempt to initiate a payment.
Action
Create a Charge
Creates a charge.
Action
Create a chat completion
Creates a chat completions with the chosen model.
Action
Create a Customer
Creates a new customer object.
Action
Create a Payment Intent
Creates a Payment Intent.
Action
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How to set up Stripe and Perplexity AI in 5 easy steps

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Get your Perplexity AI API key

Before you can connect Perplexity AI to Make, you need to obtain an API key from Perplexity AI. Log into your Perplexity AI account and click the Settings icon next to your username. Navigate to the API section in the left sidebar, create a new API group, then go to the API Keys tab and click Create Key to generate your API key. Copy this key and keep it handy as you'll need it in the next steps.

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Get your Stripe API key

To connect Stripe to Make, you'll need an API key from your Stripe account. Log into Stripe and click Developers in the upper right corner, then navigate to the API keys tab. In the Restricted keys section, click Create restricted key and choose the option for providing this key to another website. Name it Make, enter https://make.com as the URL, create the key, and copy it for later use.

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Add a module to your Make scenario

Log into your Make account and start building your automation by adding either a Perplexity AI or Stripe module to your scenario. When you add a module, you'll see an option to create a connection, which is where you'll link Make to your chosen application. This is the starting point for making your apps work together automatically.

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Connect Perplexity AI to Make

After adding a Perplexity AI module, click Create a connection and optionally give it a descriptive name to help you identify it later. Paste the API key you copied from your Perplexity AI account into the API Key field and click Save. If prompted, authenticate your account to confirm access and complete the connection setup.

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Connect Stripe to Make

When adding a Stripe module, click Create a connection and select Stripe API Key as your connection type. You can optionally enter a custom name for quick identification, then paste the API key you copied from your Stripe account into the Key field. Click Save and authenticate if prompted to finalize the connection, and you'll be ready to start automating your Stripe tasks.

Powerful automation benefits with Stripe and Perplexity AI integration

Combining Stripe and Perplexity AI creates intelligent payment automation that transforms how you handle transactions, customer insights, and financial decisions with AI-powered analysis

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Automated payment intelligence

Automatically query Perplexity AI to research and verify customer information, fraud patterns, or payment disputes whenever specific Stripe payment events occur.

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Real-time revenue insights

Use Perplexity AI to analyze payment trends, market conditions, and competitive pricing strategies based on your Stripe transaction data in real-time.

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Better customer support

Instantly generate AI-powered responses to customer payment inquiries by combining Stripe transaction details with Perplexity's knowledge discovery capabilities.

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Intelligent subscription management

Use Perplexity AI to research industry best practices and automatically optimize subscription pricing or billing strategies based on Stripe subscription metrics.

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Integrating Stripe with Perplexity AI through Make allows you to automate intelligent responses to payment-related queries and customer insights. For example, you can automatically generate AI-powered summaries of transaction patterns, create custom reports based on payment data, or provide instant knowledge-based responses to payment inquiries. This integration combines Stripe's robust payment processing with Perplexity AI's information discovery capabilities, helping you make data-driven decisions and improve customer service without manual intervention.

With Make, you can create powerful automated workflows such as: triggering Perplexity AI to research and provide insights when specific payment events occur in Stripe (like refund requests or high-value transactions), automatically generating AI-powered customer intelligence reports based on payment history, creating smart notifications that include contextual information about payment trends, or enriching transaction data with relevant market research. Make's visual workflow builder makes it straightforward to connect these applications without coding, allowing you to customize automations to your specific business needs.

No, you don't need technical expertise or coding knowledge to integrate Stripe and Perplexity AI through Make. Make provides an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface that allows anyone to create sophisticated integrations visually. The platform offers pre-built modules for both Stripe and Perplexity AI, along with templates and step-by-step guidance. You connect your accounts, select triggers and actions, and configure the data flow between applications. Make handles all the technical complexities behind the scenes, making automation accessible to users of all skill levels.

Yes, using Make is significantly more cost-effective than custom development. Building a custom integration would require hiring developers, ongoing maintenance, and substantial time investment. Make offers affordable subscription plans with generous operation limits, and you can start with a free tier to test the integration. The platform eliminates development costs, reduces implementation time from weeks to hours, and provides reliable, maintained connections that automatically update when either application changes its API. This allows you to achieve professional-grade automation at a fraction of the cost while maintaining flexibility to modify workflows as your needs evolve.