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Stripe for SaaS Builders

Stripe has a 90-page API surface. Most SaaS builders need 20% of it — done correctly. This course covers exactly that 20%: one-time payments, subscription billing, the customer portal, webhook reliability, failed payment recovery, metered billing, and the 10 Stripe mistakes that cost builders money. No fluff — just the patterns that work in production.

Prerequisites: Some programming experience
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$69one-time · lifetime access

What you'll learn

The Stripe object model — Customers, Products, Prices, PaymentIntents, and Subscriptions explained plainly
One-time payments with Checkout — hosted, secure, and conversion-optimised in under an afternoon
Subscription billing — trials, plan upgrades, proration, and cancellation done correctly
Webhook reliability — signature verification, idempotency, and the four events every SaaS must handle
The Stripe Customer Portal — self-serve billing management without building any UI
Failed payment recovery and dunning — automatically recover 40–60% of failed charges
Metered billing — charge per API call, message, or any countable unit with Billing Meters
The production checklist — 10 Stripe mistakes that cost builders money, and how to avoid them

Course outline

Full course — $69 one-time

03

Subscription Billing

Recurring revenue with trial periods, plan upgrades, proration, and cancellation — done correctly

12 min
04

Webhooks Done Right

The five events every SaaS must handle, signature verification, idempotency, and a bulletproof handler

14 min
05

The Stripe Customer Portal

Let customers manage their own billing — cancellation, payment updates, and invoice downloads — without building UI

9 min
06

Failed Payments and Dunning

Recover 40–60% of failed subscription payments automatically — without writing a dunning system from scratch

13 min
07

Metered Billing

Charge customers exactly for what they use — API calls, AI credits, messages, or any countable unit

12 min
08

The Stripe Production Checklist

Every item to verify before going live — and the Supabase query that guards every protected route

14 min

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8 lessons — from the Stripe object model to metered billing, dunning automation, and the production go-live checklist.

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