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Stripe Integration for Custom Websites & Applications

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.

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Works with Shopify Adobe Commerce WordPress Laravel & custom builds

Proven in production

Stripe, Westpac PayWay, and Braintree in production, including a competition platform that has paid out more than $250,000 in prizes.

Capabilities

What we build with Stripe

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.

Accounting Sync

Stripe payouts, fees, and refunds reconciled into Xero or MYOB, including the Stripe fee as its own line rather than a mysterious gap between what the customer paid and what hit the bank.

How it works

A Stripe integration built to last

The same approach behind every integration we deliver, from the first conversation to the years of maintenance that follow.

01

Scope & map

We define the data, events, responsibilities, source of truth, and failure cases across Stripe and the systems around it.

02

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.

03

Test & reconcile

We test representative data in a safe environment, verify each data path, and reconcile the expected outcomes before go-live.

04

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.

Case Studies

Stripe integration in production

Related services

Where Stripe fits in

The services and platforms a Stripe integration most often plugs into.

Business Software Integrations

For organisations that need websites, ERPs, finance, CRM, fulfilment, or identity systems to exchange data reliably.

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D2C eCommerce Web Development

For established consumer brands that need a faster storefront, better merchandising, and commerce systems that can handle growth.

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Custom Web Application Development

A good fit when off-the-shelf software cannot support a critical workflow, integration, or customer experience without costly workarounds.

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Laravel Development

A good fit for custom applications, complex business rules, APIs, and integrations that need a maintainable long-term codebase.

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Shopify & Shopify Plus Development

A good fit for consumer brands that want a managed commerce platform and need senior help with complex storefronts, migrations, or integrations.

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Straight advice

The simplest reliable integration usually wins.

The right design depends on volume, timing, ownership and what must happen when either system is unavailable.

Not every sync needs to be real-time

Scheduled or event-driven updates can be safer, cheaper and easier to recover.

Choose a source of truth

Each field and business rule needs one accountable owner across the connected systems.

Design the failure path

Retries, logs, alerts and reconciliation are part of the integration—not optional support work.

The Difference

The checkout is the easy part.

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. ”

Jeff Ross · Director, Impact Office Supplies
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FAQ

Common Stripe Integration Questions

Common questions our team is asked about integrating Stripe.
Because they are the part everyone treats as an afterthought. Stripe will retry a webhook it believes failed, which means your handler must be idempotent or you will process the same event twice. It sends events for things that happened while your server was down, which means order matters. And an endpoint without signature verification will happily accept a forged event from anyone who finds the URL. Get those three right and Stripe integrations become boring, which is the goal.
Yes. Plans, trials, proration on upgrades and downgrades, dunning, and failed-payment recovery. The genuinely hard part is keeping your application's own idea of who has access in step with Stripe's idea of who is paying, especially around mid-cycle changes and failed renewals. That reconciliation is where we put the care.
Connect is for when you are moving money between more than two parties: a marketplace paying sellers, a platform paying providers, anything with a split. If you are simply taking payments for your own goods, you do not need it and it adds real complexity around onboarding requirements, payout scheduling, and dispute liability. If you do need it, it is the right tool and worth doing carefully.
Stripe, usually, unless something specific pushes you elsewhere. It has better documentation, a far better developer experience, and broader payment method support. Australian bank gateways like Westpac PayWay still make sense when your bank relationship, merchant rates, or existing finance processes require it, and we have shipped both.
Yes, and it is worth doing properly. The trap is the Stripe fee: the customer pays one amount, a smaller amount lands in your bank, and if the integration does not record the fee explicitly then your reconciliation will never balance. We map payouts, fees, and refunds as distinct entries so the ledger reflects what actually happened.

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