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Stripe
Stripe is free. Card payments, subscriptions, and Checkout for an app you run yourself.
What is Stripe?
Stripe is free. Stripe charges cards and runs subscriptions through an API and a hosted Checkout page. You are the merchant, so tax and invoices stay your problem unless you add more Stripe products.
Stripe is a tool in the Payments category of a tech stack.
Level
Key Features
CheckoutSubscriptionsWebhooks
Stripe Pros & Cons
Pros of Stripe
The API and test mode are well documented
Subscriptions and one-time payments use the same account
Webhooks tell your app when a payment succeeds
Cons of Stripe
You handle tax, invoices, and chargebacks
Global tax gets messy without extra setup