If you sell products or subscriptions online through Stripe, staying updated on every new payment is crucial. Whether you're notifying your team, confirming orders with customers, or logging transactions for records, automated email alerts can save time and ensure consistency.
Instead of checking Stripe manually or sending emails by hand, you can use Albato to automatically trigger an email in Gmail each time a new payment is received. It takes just minutes to set up—and no coding required.
In this article, you’ll learn how to connect Stripe and Gmail using Albato to send real-time payment notifications.
Why automate Stripe-to-Gmail emails
Manually handling Stripe payment alerts can be time-consuming and prone to error. Automation helps you:
- Notify yourself or your team instantly when a payment arrives
- Send thank-you or confirmation emails to customers
- Forward transaction details to accounting
- Keep an organized inbox of daily payment activity
Using Albato, you can customize the message, subject line, and even who receives the email—all based on live payment data.
How Albato helps
Albato is a no-code integration platform that connects Stripe, Gmail, and hundreds of other apps. With just a few clicks, you can create a workflow (called an automation) that listens for new Stripe payments and automatically sends an email through your Gmail account.
Key benefits:
- Native Stripe and Gmail integrations
- No coding required
- Full control over email content and recipients
- Add conditions, delays, or extra steps to customize your workflow
- Logs and error handling to make sure every email is delivered
Step-by-step: send Gmail emails from Stripe payments
Here’s how to set up your Stripe-Gmail automation in Albato:
1. Connect your accounts
Log into your Albato account and connect both your Stripe and Gmail accounts. This gives Albato permission to pull payment data and send emails on your behalf.
2. Create a new automation
Click “Create automation”, then choose Stripe as the trigger app. Set the trigger event to “New payment” (or “Successful payment” depending on your preference).
3. Add Gmail as the action app
Choose Gmail as the action. Then select “Send email” as the action type.
4. Customize the email
Albato allows you to insert payment data directly into your message. For example:
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To: your own email, a team address, or even the customer’s email
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Subject: “New payment received from {{customer_name}}”
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Body:
Hi team, A new payment has been received: - Amount: ${{amount}} - Customer: {{customer_name}} - Product: {{description}} - Time: {{payment_time}}
5. Test and activate
Run a test using a real or test payment. If everything looks correct, activate the automation.
Now, each time Stripe processes a payment, your email will be automatically sent.
Bonus tips
- Send different emails for different products: Use filters in Albato to send different messages depending on what was purchased.
- Send alerts to multiple recipients: Include CCs or create multiple email steps if several people need the update.
- Add other apps: Want to log the payment in Google Sheets or send a Slack message too? Just add another action step in the same automation.
Summing up
Manually tracking Stripe payments is inefficient and error-prone—especially as your business grows. Albato helps you build automated workflows that take care of alerts and communication instantly.
With Stripe and Gmail connected in Albato, you’ll never miss a payment notification again. And because Albato integrates with hundreds of apps, you can expand your automation into a full system that saves hours every week.
Ready to automate your payment alerts? Try Albato and connect Stripe to Gmail in just a few clicks.
