Stripe is a Gateway and gives you application program interfaces (APIs) and tools that enable you to Take payments—that is, if you have a website that sells coffee beans from all over the world, you could use Stripe to accept payments on your website. Marqeta is an Issuer Processor and has tools and APIs that allow you to Make payments—that is, you can use Marqeta’s APIs to create the credit or debit card that would allow you to buy those special coffee beans from Yemen.
