Feature entitlements
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From Access to Assets: Understanding Entitlements in Membership Plans

ByTomas Zezula

Many businesses offer tiered membership plans, each with its unique set of features. This strategy allows businesses to distinguish themselves and stay competitive. These feature sets are typically referred to as entitlements. Meaning that customers are entitled to specific features included in their membership level. However, managing feature accessibility based on membership tiers can be challenging. In this article, we will explore two different platforms designed to make this process easier.

Efficient use of Stripe

Use Stripe Efficiently: Rate Limiting and Data Caching

ByTomas Zezula

Successful integration of payment processing platforms requires careful considerations about performance and reliability of your service. Whether you are gearing up for a major sales campaign or experiencing unexpected spikes in payment or billing-related requests, optimization techniques and strategic approach to caching are likely at the top of your todo list. This guide breaks down how rate limiting works with Stripe and how to handle peak traffic smoothly. We will also explore data caching practices with respect to PCI DSS compliance, ensuring your application runs efficiently without breaking privacy and security standards.

Stripe Series Summary
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Your Cheat Sheet to Mastering Payment Automation with Stripe

ByTomas Zezula

More than two months ago, I embarked on a journey to create a hands-on series about payment automation using Stripe. Writing the series has been an enjoyable and rewarding experience, and now the time has come to wrap it up. I hope you’ll find this final post useful. It summarizes all the essential points and provides links to the original articles, which are filled with detailed explanations and code examples. Consider it a cheat sheet that you can use as a point of reference at your convenience. Thank you for following along, and for all your insightful comments.

Smart retries with Stripe
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Implementing Smart Retries with Stripe

ByTomas Zezula

Network and connection issues can occur for various reasons, such as timeouts or intermittent server availability. Automatic recovery from network issues plays an important role when integrating with any API. When dealing with financial transactions, it’s vital to handle network issues and other errors gracefully. Stripe recommends implementing smart retry logic, especially for payment declines. In this blog post we’ll build reliable retries with exponential backoff and look at how to prevent charging a customer more than once.

Stripe exception handling
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Recovering from Failures when Handling Payments with Stripe

ByTomas Zezula

In our previous post we explored webhooks as a reliable means to promptly respond to customer activities, such as checkouts, successful payments or failed transactions. Yet, in practice, we often deal with a variety of unforeseen errors that can present a threat to daily operations of an e-commerce platform. To mitigate service disruptions, it’s crucial to understand how Stripe communicates issues. In this post, we explore common Stripe exceptions and learn about managing network and connection issues.

Stripe webhooks
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Checking Payment Status in Stripe with Webhooks

ByTomas Zezula

Getting timely updates about payments is crucial for maintaining smooth operational flows. Especially for businesses that rely heavily on e-commerce or offer subscription-based services. Stripe provides a robust solution for this through the use of webhooks, allowing for real-time notifications on various payment events. This blog post aims to shed light on how to automate and instantly reflect payment status changes. By understanding and implementing webhooks, developers and business owners can ensure their systems are more responsive in handling financial transactions online.