Fintech giant Stripe reported processing over $40 billion in total payment volume from Black Friday through Cyber Monday, marking the largest four-day period in the company's history. The platform handled more than 578 million transactions, with Cyber Monday alone seeing over $10 billion in payment volume. Stripe's API maintained an uptime of more than 99.9999% and its fraud prevention system, Stripe Radar, blocked over 24.6 million attempted fraudulent transactions.
Cross-border transaction volume grew 37% year-over-year, increasing from $3.2 billion to more than $4.4 billion. The event was highly global, with top currency volumes in US dollars, euros, British pounds, Australian dollars, and Canadian dollars. Stripe also highlighted the use of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) by developers, with 41% of AI tool usage related to managing products and pricing during the shopping period.
Separately, e-commerce platform Shopify announced record Black Friday-Cyber Monday sales of $14.6 billion, a 27% increase from the previous year. The platform served more than 81 million customers worldwide, with transaction volume peaking at $5.1 million per minute on Black Friday.
However, Shopify's strong performance was marred by a Cyber Monday outage that temporarily affected merchant admin interfaces and point-of-sale systems for several hours, preventing some businesses from monitoring sales and managing inventory. The issue began around 11 a.m. Eastern time, with about 4,000 users reporting problems, which were resolved by evening. Despite the technical disruption, customer checkout remained functional.
Following the sales announcement, Shopify's stock jumped 5.5%, recovering from an initial 3.9% drop when news of the outage broke. The company's physical model city built to track BFCM data featured users including Coinbase, among others like Samsonite, BMW, and Marriott.
