Changelog
Product updates and announcements for Straddle in 2025
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Zapier Integration
- You can now integrate Straddle with Zapier to trigger automated workflows when events occur in Straddle. Check out the new docs for Zapier integration.
Straddle Reputation
We’re excited to introduce Straddle Reputation, a powerful new fraud prevention system that leverages consortium data to identify repeat bad actors and stop friendly fraud before it happens.
What’s New
Data-driven Fraud Detection
Access risk signals derived from a vast network of financial institutions, fintechs, neobanks, lenders, gaming platforms, and telcos across the US.
Friendly Fraudster Identification
Identify consumers with histories of fraudulent activities across multiple institutions before they can harm your business.
Reputation Risk Score
Receive a numerical risk score specifically designed to identify repeat bad actors, enabling more informed decisioning.
Historical Insights
Access detailed transaction history metrics including ACH fraud, card disputes, account closures, and more to understand the full context of risk signals.
Reputation Codes
Interpret risk with specific reason codes that explain exactly which risk factors were identified for a consumer identity.
Built Into Customer Profiles
Reputation data is automatically integrated into every customer profile, providing seamless access to risk intelligence throughout your payment flows.
New Documentation
Marketplace Platforms
We’ve evolved Straddle Embed to support two distinct platform types with different customer relationship models.
What’s New
A new model enabling platform-level customers who can transact with multiple accounts (sellers).
Maintains the existing 1:1 customer-to-account relationship for vertical SaaS providers whose end users interact with individual businesses.
Platform-Level Customers
Marketplace platforms can now create customers at the platform level with centralized profiles, allowing seamless transactions across multiple sellers.
New Documentation
Learn more about both models in our Straddle Embed: Platform Guide.
Payment Reporting API
We’ve launched a powerful new reporting endpoint that makes it easier to search, filter, and analyze your payment data.
What’s New
Unified Payment Search
Search across both charges and payouts with a single API endpoint, simplifying how you access and analyze your payment data.
Advanced Filtering
Filter payments by type, status, amount ranges, date ranges, customer IDs, and more to find exactly the transactions you need.
Flexible Sorting
Sort results by created date, payment date, effective date, amount, or ID in ascending or descending order.
Pagination Support
Control result set size with customizable page size and pagination to efficiently process large datasets.
Full-Text Search
Find payments using free-text search across relevant payment fields for quick information retrieval.
New Documentation
Check out the new reporting endpoint in our API Reference.
API Logs
Introducing detailed and searchable API logs within the Straddle Dashboard to help you monitor and troubleshoot your integration.
What’s New
Advanced Search and Filtering
Find the exact requests you need with powerful filtering by method, status code, timestamp, and duration.
Faster Troubleshooting
Identify and resolve integration issues more efficiently with complete request/response data and status codes available in real time.
Improved Observability
Quickly identify bottlenecks or errors across your payment flows with comprehensive performance metrics and response times.
Historical Data Access
Access up to 30 days of historical API logs to track down intermittent issues or analyze usage patterns over time.
Dashboard V2
We’ve completely rebuilt the Straddle dashboard from the ground up, focusing on developer experience, workflow efficiency, and powerful insights to help your team move faster.
What’s New
Work smarter, not harder
Navigate with confidence through our intuitive layout designed for developer productivity. Access critical information with fewer clicks.
Business metrics
Transform complex data into actionable insights with our improved interactive charts, real-time metrics, and comprehensive reporting tools. Spot trends faster and make data-driven decisions with confidence.
Built for speed
Experience lightning-fast response times with our rebuilt architecture. Page loads are up to 70% faster, API responses are optimized, and resource utilization is significantly reduced.
Business Identity and Chargeback Protection
We’ve expanded our identity verification capabilities with a comprehensive solution specifically for business customers.
What’s New
Business Verification Engine
Verify business customers with advanced checks for EIN, legal business name, business address, and people associated with the business.
Business Identity Codes
New “BI” prefixed verification codes provide detailed insights into verification results across multiple categories including tax ID verification, address verification, entity type, and business standing.
Chargeback Protection
Businesses using Business Identity verification now receive chargeback protection after 48 hours for verified business customers.
Risk Scoring
Numerical risk scores from 0 to 1 help assess business verification status for more intelligent decision-making.
New Documentation
Learn more about integrating and interpreting Business Identity in our Business Identity guide.
SDKs
- Python SDK: Launched the Straddle Python SDK with type definitions and sync/async clients.
- Node.js SDK: Launched the Straddle Node.js SDK with TypeScript support for Node.js, Deno, and Bun.
Webhooks
- Polling Endpoints: Added the ability to get a stream of events by polling webhook endpoints, useful for local testing or batch processing.
- Storage Integrations: Send Straddle webhook data directly to AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, or Google Cloud Storage.
Developer Tools
- Interactive Playground: Launched a new interactive developer playground at straddle.dev.
- Postman Collection: Published an official Postman collection at https://www.postman.com/strddl.
Website
- New Marketing Site: Launched a revamped marketing site at straddle.io with clearer product explanations.
Platform
- API Status Page: Launched a dedicated API status page at status.straddle.io with support for email/webhook subscriptions.