Webhooks deliver billing events in real-time, but they break in subtle ways. Avoid the pitfalls of duplicates, ordering, and downtime.
Testing your billing integration prevents double charges, missed access, and angry customers. A framework to catch bugs before production.
Stripe makes billing look solved. Then you discover the gaps: entitlements, seat management, price grandfathering, and failed payment recovery.
Stop polling for subscription changes. Webhooks notify your application the moment something happens, from subscription creation to payment failure.
Stripe webhooks break in production: duplicates, out-of-order events, failed retries. Here's how to handle them without debugging at 2 AM.