**Important**
Stripe is our 3rd party transaction service to allow payments from your players, teams, and leagues to be securely processed
for more information on stripe and how it works Click Here.
To Create and activate your acount an account
1. If you do not already have a stripe account then Click Here to create an account.
2. If you have a Stripe account but it is not activated then Click Here to learn how to activate your account.
Create Stripe Account - https://help.scoremonster.com/tutorials/ID/130/how-do-I-create-a-Stripe-account-and-get-account-id
Activate Stripe Account - https://help.scoremonster.com/tutorials/ID/131/How-to-activate-my-stripe-account
For Control Panel (2022 release)
*Must be a league admin to be able to set a stripe account up to your league
1. Login to Scoremonster
2. Click the "League Dashboard" from the side menu
3. Click the "Edit League" sub tab to be brought to the league editor

Step 4) Scroll down to the "Configure Payment Method" section and click "connect with stripe" setting.

Next) choose from the pop up if you want to use your parent leagues payment setup OR if you want to create your own stripe connection to scoremonster.
Parent league option - This option is used for leagues who will not be accepting payments directly and want the payments to go to a parent league that runs your league.
Create new stripe connection- This option is used for leagues who want all payments to go to themselves from registrations and fees on scoremonster.

Stripe is our 3rd party transaction service to allow payments from your players, teams, and leagues to be securely processed
1. If you already have a stripe account created and activated then skip this step.
2. If you do not already have a stripe account then Click Here to create an account.
3. If you have a Stripe account but it is not activated then follow the onscreen steps to set up your stripe account with your banking information.
For more information on Stripe and how to activate your stripe account with your bank Click Here.
Step 5) Enter your Stripe Email and Password to connect your stripe to scoremonster

Step 5) Click the "OK" link to bring you back to the edit league page

Step 8) You will see your stripe connection was successful and you are ready to start using stripe as your method of payment.

If you do not see your stripe id listed in the stripe connections area please contact ScoreMonster Support
For Classic Site (pre 2022 release)
Step 1) Login to your ScoreMonster Account.
Step 2) Click the Leagues tab at the top.

Step 3) Find your league and click on it to edit it.

Step 4) Scroll down to the "Configure Payment Method" section and click "connect with stripe" setting.

Next) choose from the pop up if you want to use your parent leagues payment setup OR if you want to create your own stripe connection to scoremonster.
Parent league option - This option is used for leagues who will not be accepting payments directly and want the payments to go to a parent league that runs your league.
Create new stripe connection- This option is used for leagues who want all payments to go to themselves from registrations and fees on scoremonster.

Step 5) From the stripe page enter your Stripe account information or create a new stripe account.
**Important**
* when logging in you will be asked to complete two-factor authenication
*If you have not already activated your stripe account with your banking information you will be prompted here to enter that information.
Continue through the onscreen steps to activate your account.

Step 6) Click the "OK" link to bring you back to the edit league page

Step 7) You will see your stripe connection was successful and you are ready to start using stripe as your method of payment.

If you do not see your stripe id listed in the stripe connections area please contact ScoreMonster Support