How a Timeout Can Charge Your Customer Twice (And How to Stop It in Laravel)
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Stripe Connect refunds: the two flags that silently cost platforms
Problem When a Stripe Connect platform refunds a charge, the platform often assumes that the original transfer and the application fee are automatic…
Credits, plans and quotas in Laravel with Larameter
If your app sells an allowance, a number of credits a month, or a number of documents, or a number of anything. Whatever it is, you end up writing a…
What a lost dispute actually costs a Connect platform
Refunds get the attention. Disputes are worse, and the reason is structural rather than a matter of degree. On a refund you at least have a paramete…
The Stripe Connect refund that only costs the platform
There is a class of bug in Stripe Connect that never throws, never logs, and never fails a webhook. The refund succeeds. The customer is made whole.…
Stripe Shared Payment Tokens: five wire shapes I only found by shipping
Five response shapes from Stripe's Shared Payment Tokens preview API that I didn't find documented, captured from real test-mode responses. Stripe's…
Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’
What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it…
Stripe Says Paid, WooCommerce Says Pending: A Safe Reconciliation Checklist
A customer completes checkout. Stripe shows a successful payment, but the WooCommerce order is still Pending payment , On hold , or Failed . The tem…
Why I built a full PayPal checkout on Cloudflare Workers instead of using Stripe
When I migrated a 4-year-old e-commerce store to Webround, the client had one non-negotiable requirement: PayPal had to work. Their customers were u…
Stripe Just Bought OpenRouter for $7B+ — and That Is the Most Important AI Story of the Week
Stripe Just Bought OpenRouter for $7B+ — and That's the Most Important AI Story of the Week On August 16, Bloomberg reported that Stripe has finaliz…
I Built a Production E-commerce System — Here’s What I Learned
E-commerce projects at first glance look simple — search products, add them to a cart, checkout, complete the payment, done. I thought the same. I r…
Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up
PayPal is still reportedly negotiating a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent, as the fintech firm's new CEO attempts to turn the…
I type-check AI-generated SDK code against the real package. Claude refused a third of my Stripe tasks.
I build a small tool called SDKProof. It measures whether AI coding agents write a library's current API or an older one they remember. A model solv…
Architecting Bulletproof SaaS Billing with Stripe: Webhooks, Proration, and Usage Metrics
Architecting Bulletproof SaaS Billing with Stripe Building a SaaS product is a marathon, but billing is where developers often trip over their own s…
What a failed renewal does to an affiliate commission you already paid
If you run an affiliate program on Stripe subscriptions, you pay commission when an invoice gets paid. The part that quietly breaks is what happens…
Payment Integration Process Using AI with React JS - DEV.to Guide 2026
The short answer: Integrating payments in a React JS app using AI means combining a payment gateway SDK (Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay) with AI-powered f…
Multi-currency affiliate commissions on Stripe: which amount do you actually owe?
If your customers pay in their own currency and you pay affiliates in yours, every payment carries two different amounts. Pick the wrong one and eve…
PayPal leaves the door open to a higher takeover offer following earnings beat
After reporting better-than-expected Q2 results, PayPal said it remains focused on its AI-driven turnaround, but would consider a deal that creates…
Subscription Billing and Plans
Last time, in Accepting Payments with Stripe , I covered the part everyone assumes is the hard bit: taking a card and moving money. It isn't, really…
Designing Idempotent Stripe Webhook Delivery for Generated Files
A successful payment is not the same thing as a successful order. For a SaaS product that generates a personalized file after checkout, fulfillment…
Applications close in 48 hours — here’s everything Australian founders need to know about Stripe x Startup Battlefield
The window is almost shut. On August 19, eight startups will take the stage at Stripe Tour Sydney in front of investors, global press, and the Austr…
Stripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal for around $53.4B
Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly submitted a joint bid to acquire PayPal in a deal valued at approximately $53.4…
Multi-Tenant Stripe Connect Payments in a Go SaaS Platform
The problem We build Verify365, a white-label SaaS platform used by several law firms, each under its own brand. Every partner firm needs payments t…
How to Accept Crypto Payments on WooCommerce (Without a Custodial Processor)
You built your WooCommerce store. You've got products, a checkout flow, and customers who want to pay in crypto. The question is: which payment gate…
Next.js Stripe Billing Integration for SaaS (Step-by-Step Guide)
Creating a B2B SaaS application involves a number of challenges. One of the challenges facing entrepreneurs and businesses is the time required to d…
Stripe webhooks can work and your app access can still be wrong
Most Stripe billing bugs get described as webhook bugs. Did the event arrive? Did the signature verify? Did the handler return 200 ? Is the handler…
Stripe-connect-reckon – a read-only monitor for Stripe Connect balance risk
I worked on a marketplace where a connected account went negative, Stripe suspended its payouts, and refunds silently queued as pending — no error,…
Stripe vs Paddle vs Lemon Squeezy for Indie Developers
Originally published on the Keylight blog . If you are an indie developer about to charge for an app, you have three names in front of you: Stripe,…
How I add Polar (Merchant of Record) + Stripe to any Next.js app in 10 minutes — without an SDK
If you're a solo dev outside the US, "just add Stripe" is rarely just. Stripe doesn't onboard sellers directly in a lot of countries, so you reach f…
Clawing back affiliate commissions when a customer refunds: design the ledger first
You pay an affiliate 30% for referring a customer. Three weeks later that customer refunds. Now the affiliate is holding a commission on a sale that…