The eCommerce Stripe Integration Manual

📚 What's inside this manual:

18 chapters across 159 pages. Every chapter ends with something written down that you keep.

1. Chapter 1: Why a card payment and a store order are two different records, and the nine stages between them
2. Chapter 2: The nine records behind one card sale, and how to read a payment's status in ninety seconds
3. Chapter 3: Choosing a checkout surface on purpose, and paying for it once
4. Chapter 4: Set the environment up so a mistake costs an hour instead of a weekend.
5. Chapter 5: Why the card fields vanish, and the script rules that arrived in 2025
6. Chapter 6: Getting the one-tap buttons to appear for every buyer, on every domain you sell from
7. Chapter 7: Why the bank says no, what to tell the buyer, and when a card payment has to stop and ask a question
8. Chapter 8: The fields around the card field, and the buyers they quietly turn away
9. Chapter 9: Verified messages, a queue, and an event log that survives an outage
10. Chapter 10: The order state machine, the events worth trusting, and the weekly orphan report
11. Chapter 11: Reading the money instead of guessing at it, from the balance transaction to a month end you can repeat
12. Chapter 12: Change a plan, a price or a trial without producing an invoice nobody can explain
13. Chapter 13: Count what customers use, and show them the number before the invoice does.
14. Chapter 14: Getting back the subscribers who never meant to leave
15. Chapter 15: A portal the customer can use alone, a policy you publish, and the renewal rules in force this year
16. Chapter 16: Reading the signs early, and the settings that end it in an hour
17. Chapter 17: What a chargeback really is, the packet that wins one, and the ratio that decides whether you keep card acceptance
18. Chapter 18: A ninety-minute review that keeps the rest of this book true, and four things nobody has settled yet