What This Is
We connect your business systems to Stripe’s API so that payments, subscriptions, invoicing, and billing management are handled automatically inside your application — not through Stripe’s hosted pages or manual dashboard work. The integration covers the full billing lifecycle: creating customers, processing payments, managing subscription tiers, handling upgrades and downgrades, issuing invoices, and processing webhook events for every state change.
This is not a Stripe Checkout embed. We build Stripe into your application as a complete billing engine. When a user subscribes, the system creates a Stripe customer, attaches a payment method, starts the subscription, and tracks the billing state — all through your application’s interface. When Stripe fires a webhook (payment succeeded, payment failed, subscription cancelled, invoice created), your application processes it in a queue job with full error handling and retry logic.
We run Stripe in production across our own platforms — managing subscriptions, processing payments, syncing product catalogues, applying loyalty discounts, and handling the full webhook lifecycle. Our integration handles edge cases that most implementations miss: proration on plan changes, grace periods on failed payments, coupon management, and idempotent webhook processing.
When You Need This
Stripe integration is the right choice when your application needs to accept payments or manage subscriptions as part of its core functionality. Common triggers:
- You are building a SaaS product that needs recurring billing with multiple pricing tiers, usage-based charges, or per-seat pricing
- You need one-time payments with invoice generation, receipt emails, and payment status tracking inside your application
- You want to replace a manual billing process — sending invoices by email, chasing payments, or manually reconciling bank transactions
- An existing Stripe integration is unreliable or incomplete — missing webhook handling, no retry logic, or losing track of subscription state
How We Work
Stripe projects start with mapping the billing model — what products exist, what pricing tiers apply, how upgrades and downgrades work, what happens on failed payments, and how refunds are processed. This model defines the Stripe product catalogue, the subscription lifecycle, and every webhook event your application needs to handle.
We build Stripe as a first-class service inside your application with a dedicated service layer that abstracts Stripe’s API behind your business logic. Your controllers and jobs interact with the billing service, not with Stripe directly. This means changing billing rules (adding a trial period, adjusting proration behaviour, applying a discount) is a configuration change, not a rewrite.
Webhook processing is built on Laravel’s queue system with idempotent job handlers. Each webhook event type has its own job class with specific error handling. Payment failures trigger retry logic and user notifications. Subscription changes update your local state. Invoice events generate records in your system. Every webhook is verified, logged, and processed exactly once — even if Stripe sends it multiple times.
What You Get
- Subscription management — create, upgrade, downgrade, pause, and cancel subscriptions with full lifecycle handling
- Payment processing — one-time and recurring payments with payment method management and SCA compliance
- Webhook processing — idempotent handlers for payment, subscription, invoice, and dispute events, processed via queue jobs
- Invoice generation — automated invoicing through Stripe with records synced to your application
- Product catalogue sync — Stripe Products and Prices managed from your application, with coupon and discount support
- Failed payment handling — configurable retry logic, grace periods, and automated user notifications on payment failures
Technologies We Use
- Stripe API — Customers, Subscriptions, PaymentIntents, Products, Prices, Invoices, Webhooks, and Checkout Sessions
- Laravel — dedicated service layer, queue-based webhook processing, and Stripe SDK integration
- React — Stripe Elements for secure payment form rendering with real-time validation
- PostgreSQL — local subscription state, payment history, and invoice records for fast querying without API calls
Related Systems
Stripe is the billing engine inside systems that involve money — a SaaS platform with tiered subscriptions, a client portal with invoice management, or an e-commerce system with product payments. The billing logic is a critical subsystem, not a standalone feature.
Talk to Us About Billing Integration
If your application needs to handle payments, subscriptions, or invoicing, get in touch and we will map the billing model and build it properly.
