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Payments, subscriptions, marketplaces, and webhooks with idempotency, reconciliation, and monitoring built in.
Taking a payment with Stripe is easy. Keeping your system correct when the customer closes the tab mid-payment, the webhook arrives twice, the card is declined on the third retry of a subscription, or a dispute lands three weeks later, is the part that actually takes engineering. Most Stripe integrations we get called in to fix are not broken in the checkout. They are broken in the webhook handler, where a missed event or a duplicated one has quietly left the database disagreeing with reality.
& custom builds
Proven in client projects
Stripe, Westpac PayWay, and Braintree in production, including a competition platform that has paid out more than $250,000 in prizes.
The Stripe integration work our senior team most often takes on.
Payments & Checkout
Payment Intents implemented properly, with 3D Secure and Strong Customer Authentication handled rather than avoided. Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and the local methods your customers actually reach for.
Subscriptions & Billing
Recurring billing, plan changes, proration, trials, dunning, and failed-payment recovery. The hard part is not creating a subscription, it is keeping your own database in step with Stripe when the customer upgrades mid-cycle or a renewal fails at 3am.
Stripe Connect & Marketplaces
Multi-party payments, split payouts, and onboarding for sellers or providers. Connect is powerful and genuinely fiddly, especially around onboarding requirements, payout timing, and who is liable when a dispute lands.
Webhooks Done Properly
Signature verification, replay protection, idempotent handlers, and a queue so a slow handler never causes Stripe to time out and retry into a mess. This is where most Stripe integrations quietly rot, and it is entirely preventable.
Refunds & Disputes
Partial refunds, chargebacks, and dispute evidence handled in a way that keeps your own records honest. A refund that happens in Stripe but never lands in your system is an accounting problem waiting to be found.
The same approach behind every integration we deliver, from the first conversation to the years of maintenance that follow.
Scope & map
We define the data, events, responsibilities, source of truth, and failure cases across Stripe and the systems around it.
Build for failure
We design around real failure modes with appropriate retries, idempotent writes, validation, and reconciliation so a temporary outage does not become silent data loss.
Test & reconcile
We test representative data in a safe environment, verify each data path, and reconcile the expected outcomes before go-live.
Monitor & maintain
Monitoring and alerting start at launch. Our senior team keeps the project context and remains responsible for changes, incidents, and long-term operation.
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The services and platforms a Stripe integration most often plugs into.
For organisations that need websites, ERPs, finance, CRM, fulfilment, or identity systems to exchange data reliably.
Online stores for consumer brands, built to keep selling when traffic spikes.
Ordering portals, operations software and quoting systems for when off-the-shelf tools no longer fit how you work.
A good fit for custom applications, complex business rules, APIs, and integrations that need a maintainable long-term codebase.
A good fit for consumer brands that want a managed commerce platform and need senior help with complex storefronts, migrations, or integrations.
Scheduled or event-driven updates can be safer, cheaper and easier to recover.
Each field and business rule needs one accountable owner across the connected systems.
Retries, logs, alerts and reconciliation are part of the integration—not optional support work.
Almost nobody gets the payment itself wrong. What goes wrong is everything around it: the duplicate webhook, the retry that charges twice, the subscription that renewed in Stripe but not in your database, the refund that never made it to the ledger. That is where we spend the engineering.
A common shortcut
Ships the checkout, ignores the webhooks.
Webhook handler accepts anything that arrives, with no signature verification. Anyone who finds the endpoint can forge a payment.
Stripe retries a webhook it thinks failed, the handler runs twice, and the customer is credited twice.
Subscription state lives in two places and slowly diverges. Someone cancels in Stripe and keeps their access forever.
Our senior-team model
Correct when things go wrong.
Signatures verified on every webhook, with replay protection. An endpoint that trusts unverified input is a security bug, not a shortcut.
Handlers are idempotent and queued. The same event processed twice produces the same result once.
Stripe is the source of truth and your database follows it, with reconciliation to catch anything that drifted.
“ Digital Bird has had a huge influence on our business providing many solutions besides just a fantastic reliable website. Jonathan is great to work with and has a solution to every challenge. Jonathan also has the ability to “dumb it down” and provide timely advice and assistance if something goes astray. With Jonathan we have in excess of 99% uptime on all three websites. ”
Systems commonly compared, connected, or operated in the same workflow.
ERP & Accounting
Payments
Marketing & CRM
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