The short answer is: No. Connect is for marketplaces and does some amazing things to make 3 party payments substantially less painful. Checkout is for 2 party

The short answer is: No. Connect is for marketplaces and does some amazing things to make 3 party payments substantially less painful. Checkout is for 2 party payments and does some amazing things to make getting credit cards and storing them in a secure vault substantially less painful. However, neither solution is drop-in zero-code. Stripe focuses on removing friction at the hard parts of the problem so you can build machines that do payments, Paypal focuses on payments that require no effort on the backend.