Wordpress, Hosting and Merchant Question?

[Briann]

Hello, I am kind of a newbie to wordpress and I am needing some clarification.

Okay, so I am setting up an Wordpress, e-commerce site and I know that I am wanting to use Stripe for my merchant and Payment gateway. The problem is, is that when I am looking at hosting for my website they say that they have their own merchant account and payment gateways. My question is; Do I have to use the merchant account that my Host (I was looking at ipage) provides for me? And will I have any issues integrating Stripe with any host that i decide to use?

Thanks!
I will be using WooCommerce which Stripe is compatible with, So that wont be an issue.
I did contact iPage and they told me that they use "Accept Safe" as a merchant.
and I am just wanting to know if I can use ipage for hosting but still use WooCommerce and Stripe.
I dont want to pay for hosting just to find out that it is not compatible with what I want.

Thanks for the responses so far, they have been helpful.