t3dotgg/stripe-recommendations
Stripe Recommendations
This project is a reference implementation for integrating Stripe payment processing into an application. It provides a boilerplate for managing the end-to-end checkout lifecycle, specifically focusing on binding local user accounts to third-party payment identities.
The implementation utilizes a payment checkout orchestrator to coordinate the creation of customer identities and checkout sessions. It includes a dedicated webhook processor and subscription state synchronizer to mirror external payment data into a local database, ensuring application state remains consistent with asynchronous provider events.
The system covers subscription lifecycle management and identity mapping, including mechanisms to enforce subscription limits and prevent duplicate active plans per customer. It handles data synchronization through shared logic used across both webhook listeners and success pages.
Features
- Stripe Billing Integrations - Integrates Stripe billing to manage customer checkouts and subscription access control.
- Stripe Webhook Handlers - Implements a backend handler to synchronize application state with Stripe payment events.
- Checkout Orchestrators - Coordinates the binding of local users to provider IDs before initiating the checkout session.
- Checkout Workflows - Implements a multi-step checkout process that coordinates customer identity creation and session binding.
- Customer Identity Linking - Associates internal user identities with external payment identifiers for accurate billing records.
- Payment Synchronization - Keeps a local key-value store in sync with customer and subscription details from the payment provider.
- Subscription Lifecycle Management - Manages the lifecycle of recurring billing plans to prevent duplicate billing and race conditions.
- Subscription State Mirroring - Copies the latest subscription data from the payment provider to a local store to maintain state.
- State Synchronization Webhooks - Synchronizes internal database state with external payment provider events via asynchronous webhooks.
- Payment Webhooks - Provides a dedicated processor for handling asynchronous payment and subscription status updates via webhooks.
- Payment Identity Mappings - Links internal user accounts to external provider IDs using a persistent lookup table.
- Subscription Limit Tracking - Enforces a maximum number of active subscriptions per customer to prevent duplicates.
- Concurrent Subscription Restrictions - Configures the payment platform to restrict multiple active plans per customer.
- Subscription Syncing - Uses shared business logic to synchronize user access levels across both webhook listeners and success pages.
- Asynchronous Event Handlers - Processes payment status changes in the background using non-blocking event-driven logic to maintain data consistency.
