Practical, engineer-written content from the team that ships Stripe integrations every week.
A checklist built from real security reviews, not a generic best-practices list.
Manual tax tables work fine until they don't. Here's the point where automation pays for itself.
Stop deploying to test webhooks — the CLI forwards real events straight to your local server.
Refunds are the most commonly under-designed part of a marketplace payment architecture.
Radar's defaults are a starting point, not a finished configuration.
Most of these errors trace back to a test/live key mismatch or a stale client-side reference.
Shopify Payments covers standard storefronts well — here's where it stops being enough.
When to reach for Cashier, and when to go straight to the Stripe PHP SDK instead.
Proration is where most custom billing bugs live. Here's the mental model that actually holds up.
The single biggest risk in a billing migration is re-collecting cards. Here's how to avoid it.
For SaaS specifically — not general e-commerce — the decision is less close than it looks.
The five architectural decisions that determine whether your marketplace payments scale cleanly.
Every support ticket a customer can resolve themselves through a portal is a ticket your team never has to touch.
Using Checkout reduces your PCI scope significantly — here's exactly what that means in practice.
These three products solve real problems that most teams don't know Stripe already handles — until they've half-built a worse version themselves.
Idempotency keys prevent double-charges on retry — here's exactly how to use them.
Inheriting someone else's Stripe integration usually means inheriting their undocumented assumptions too. Here's how we triage one in the first week.
The test card numbers, 3DS triggers, and decline codes worth actually memorizing.
Buy-now-pay-later isn't a UI toggle — it changes your refund logic, your risk exposure, and what "payment confirmed" means.
If your webhook signature check is failing, it's almost always one of these five causes.
Card fees make sense for small transactions and stop making sense fast as transaction size grows — here's when to switch rails.
The account-type decision that's expensive to reverse — here's how to get it right the first time.
Wallets convert better than manual card entry, and Stripe surfaces them automatically — if the integration is set up correctly.
Verification, idempotency, and retries — the three things that separate a toy webhook handler from a production one.
Server Actions, Route Handlers, and the runtime gotcha that breaks most first attempts.
Both let you accept payments — but they solve different problems. Here's how to choose.
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