Ecommerce & Payments · Payments platform
Stripe
integration & API.
Stripe integrations that handle subscriptions, marketplaces, and edge cases the docs gloss over.
S What is Stripe?
Stripe in plain English.
Stripe is the developer-favourite payment platform powering online payments, subscriptions, marketplaces, and connected commerce for millions of businesses. Its API is the reference for clean payment architecture.
What businesses use it for
Common Stripe
use cases.
- 01 Online payment acceptance for ecommerce, SaaS, and services
- 02 Subscription billing with trials, proration, and plan changes
- 03 Marketplace payments through Stripe Connect
- 04 Invoicing and one-off payment links
- 05 Automated tax calculation through Stripe Tax
Why custom?
Beyond the default Stripe integrations.
Stripe's API is fantastic — and deep. Building reliable Stripe integrations means handling webhooks idempotently, managing failed charges gracefully, reconciling against accounting systems, and supporting subscription edge cases (proration, dunning, plan changes) without losing revenue. We build Stripe integrations that don't leak.
What we build with Stripe
Common Stripe integrations.
Stripe Checkout, Elements, and custom payment flows
Subscription billing with proper proration and dunning
Stripe Connect for marketplaces and platforms
Webhook handling with idempotency and retries
Reconciliation with Xero, QuickBooks, and MYOB
How a Stripe project usually unfolds
How a Stripe project usually unfolds.
- 01
Discovery on the payment model and the surrounding stack
A working session with finance, product and operations to map the actual payment model — one-off, subscriptions, marketplace splits, multi-currency — and where Stripe sits relative to accounting, customer support and the operational systems. Out of that we agree what to build bespoke versus what Stripe handles natively.
- 02
Design webhooks, idempotency and reconciliation
API access and webhook endpoints agreed, idempotency keys and retry behaviour designed in from the start, and the reconciliation model into accounting decided up front so the bookkeeper does not have to undo our work later.
- 03
Build in phases
Highest-pain piece first — typically the subscription or marketplace flow, or the reconciliation into Xero or QuickBooks — then dunning, then reporting. Each phase ships behind feature flags and tested against Stripe test mode before going live.
- 04
Handover with documentation and a maintenance arrangement
Finance and support team training on the new flows, runbooks for failed-charge and dispute handling, and an agreed support arrangement for the months after launch.
Typical investment $15K–$70K depending on scope
Typical timeline 5–12 weeks to first delivery
What you can expect
What a Stripe integration usually delivers.
Revenue that does not leak
Webhook handlers built idempotently with proper retries, failed-charge handling and dunning that recovers what would otherwise be lost — without double-charging or double-counting.
Subscription edge cases handled properly
Proration, plan changes, trials, mid-cycle upgrades and cancellations behave the way finance expects, with the reporting to back it up.
Reconciliation that satisfies the bookkeeper
Charges, refunds, fees, payouts and chargebacks reconcile cleanly into Xero, QuickBooks or MYOB — including the multi-currency and timing edge cases the default integrations gloss over.
Marketplace flows that scale without compliance landmines
Stripe Connect implementations done with the right onboarding, payout and compliance handling for the markets the platform actually operates in.
Commonly paired with
Stripe works with the rest of your stack.
How we build
Production-grade.
Not Zapier in a trench coat.
Every Stripe integration we ship handles failure properly: idempotent jobs, retry logic, dead-letter queues for unrecoverable cases, and observability so you can see exactly where data is at any moment.
Tested
Real test suite, real edge cases. Not just "it worked once."
Observable
You see what is happening — events logged, errors surfaced.
Maintainable
Documented, version-controlled, handed over properly.
More Ecommerce & Payments
Other ecommerce & payments platforms we connect.
S Shopify
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W WooCommerce
WooCommerce integrations and AI automation for businesses already invested in WordPress.
B BigCommerce
BigCommerce integrations and headless builds for stores ready to scale beyond Shopify.
S Square
Square integrations connecting in-person and online sales with the rest of your business.
FAQ
Common questions about Stripe integration.
Do you build Stripe Connect integrations for marketplaces?
Yes — Stripe Connect for marketplaces and platforms is a common engagement, including the compliance, payouts, and reconciliation work that goes with it.
Can Stripe integrate with Xero or QuickBooks?
Yes — we build Stripe ↔ accounting integrations that reconcile charges, refunds, fees, and payouts properly. Going beyond the default integrations to handle edge cases like multi-currency and chargebacks.
Does Stripe handle Australian GST?
Yes — through Stripe Tax for automatic calculation, or through proper integration into your accounting system for manual control. We set it up the way your accountant expects.
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