Stripe + Circle integration

Plandalf connects them with native Circle steps, not a direct Stripe-to-Circle sync. Stripe takes the payment in a Plandalf checkout, then a sequence finds or creates the Circle member and adds them to a space. A refund that succeeds in Stripe can remove them from the space again. Circle's Admin API needs a Business plan or above.

1. Connect Stripe and publish the checkout

   Authorize your Stripe account in Plandalf, attach the Stripe price for your membership to an offer and publish it. Stripe collects the payment and pays out to your own Stripe account.

2. Create an Admin V1 token

   In your Circle community open Developers, then Tokens, create a token called Plandalf and choose Admin V1 as its type. Only community admins can see this page. Copy the token.

3. Connect Circle

   In Plandalf go to Automation, then Marketplace, and click Connect on Circle. Paste the token into API Key and leave Community ID blank. If the token can see several communities, Plandalf lists them and you enter the right ID under My apps.

4. Create the member, then the space

   Make a sequence on Plandalf, Checkout Completed for your checkout. Add Circle, Find or Create Member with Email Address {{trigger.customer_email}} and Name {{trigger.customer_name}}. Add Circle, Add Member to Space with the same email and your members-only Space.

5. Remove them from the space on refund

   Add the Remove access on refund template for the same checkout under Automation, then Templates. Pick the Space in the Remove Member from Space step, and add another removal step for each extra space the checkout grants.

6. Test with your own address

   Switch on Run on test purchases, buy through the test link with a Stripe test card, and check the Circle member list. New members receive Circle's invitation email, so run it with an address you control and then switch the setting off.

• Circle's Admin API is on its Business plan and above. On a lower plan the connection fails with Authentication failed.
• The token must be of type Admin V1. A token that can see more than one community stops the connection until you enter a Community ID.
• Removing someone from a space does not remove them from the community, so a refunded buyer keeps whatever access your other spaces give every member.
• Plandalf has no subscription-cancelled trigger. Cancelling a plan does not remove anyone from a space unless you do it in Circle or run Remove Member from Space from a sequence you start yourself.
• The Member Created trigger needs a Circle workflow that sends to a webhook. That action is an Enterprise feature in Circle, and other plans use Zapier or Make.
• Find or Create Member sends Circle's invitation email to new members, so a test run really emails whoever you put in the Email Address field.

Does Stripe integrate with Circle?

Plandalf joins them. Stripe takes the payment in a Plandalf checkout and a Plandalf sequence adds the buyer to a Circle space. For payments you set up inside Circle itself, check Circle's own documentation.

How do I add someone to a Circle space after a Stripe payment?

Start a sequence on Checkout Completed, add Circle, Find or Create Member with the buyer's email, then Circle, Add Member to Space and choose the space. Run the first step before the second.

Can a Stripe refund remove someone from my Circle space?

Yes. When a full refund succeeds in Stripe, the Remove access on refund template runs Remove Member from Space for that buyer. They stay in the community itself.

Do I need Zapier to connect Stripe to Circle?

No for the grant and the removal, which are native steps. Zapier or Make only comes in if you want Circle's Member Created trigger without Circle's Enterprise plan.

Checked October 26, 2026 against Plandalf's own setup guides.