Will your billing code survive launch day?

Writing a Stripe integration is intimidating

There are lots of moving pieces and no one place to see a complete implementation. You've probably asked yourself a million questions:

Simple tutorials only go so far. Blog posts from years ago are easy to find, but are they still correct? API documentation doesn't help if you don't know what you're looking for.

Mastering Modern Payments: Using Stripe with Rails distills the experience of building dozens of Stripe integrations into one concise, comprehensive guide.

From first chapter to last, MMP is packed with advice and examples:

Basic Integration guides you through the most basic Stripe billing system possible and prepares your app for the rest of the book.

Security and PCI Compliance guides you through the murky waters of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards and how they apply to Stripe. It also talks about security scanners and code analysis tools you can use to validate your code isn't susceptible to things like cross-site-scripting attacks and SQL injections.

Custom Payment Forms shows you how to get away from Stripe Checkout and build your own payment forms, your way, with your own framework.

State and History teaches you why and how you should build your application with explicit state machines. It also walks through why keeping audit logs of the changes to your models is so very important, and how you can get them with just one line of code.

Handling Webhooks describes how to handle Stripe's webhook events to alert you of errors, perform vital upkeep within your application, and send receipts to customers.

Background Workers describes how to communicate with Stripe asynchronously. The Internet is a wild, wacky place, and your application needs to be able to recover from any number of errors, both internal and external.

Subscriptions walks through your options for building recurring billing into your application, along with advice about emailing your customers and integrating analytics services.

Connect and Marketplaces adds onto the basic integration again, this time allowing your app to sell things on your users' behalf with Stripe Connect and send them payments with Transfers.

MMP has helped 1,303 people confidently earn more than $2 million dollars by getting their Stripe integration set up in hours, not days.

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