Checkout, subscriptions, the billing lifecycle, webhooks, invoices, usage-based billing, and Stripe Connect for marketplaces. The Stripe course for developers who want to get payments right — not just get them working.
This is a text-first course that links out to the best supporting material on the internet instead of trying to replace it. The goal is to make this the best course on stripe you can find — even without producing a single minute of custom video.
This course is built by engineers who ship stripe systems in production. It reflects how these tools actually behave at scale.
Every day includes working code examples you can copy, run, and modify right now. Understanding comes through doing.
Instead of re-explaining existing documentation, this course links to the definitive open-source implementations and the best reference material on stripe available.
Each day is designed for about an hour of focused reading plus hands-on work. Do the whole course over a week of lunch breaks. No live classes, no quizzes.
Each day stands alone. Read them in order for the full picture, or jump straight to the day that answers the question you have today.
Stripe objects (Customer, Product, Price), Stripe Checkout Sessions, success and cancel URLs, payment method collection, test mode, and the Stripe Dashboard for debugging — the foundation every other Stripe integration builds on.
Creating subscriptions, trial periods, the subscription status machine (active, past_due, canceled, incomplete), proration on plan upgrades, metered billing, and the customer portal for self-service management.
Webhook event types that matter for subscriptions (payment_intent.succeeded, invoice.payment_failed, customer.subscription.updated), idempotency for safe replay handling, webhook signature verification, and testing with the Stripe CLI.
Invoice objects and the invoice lifecycle, usage-based billing with billing meters, Stripe Tax for automatic calculation, multi-currency pricing, and the invoice patterns that work for B2B SaaS.
Connect account types (Standard, Express, Custom), onboarding flows, destination charges vs separate charges and transfers, payout timing control, and the compliance requirements (KYC, AML) Connect handles for you.
Instead of shooting our own videos, we link to the best deep-dives already on YouTube. Watch them alongside the course. All external, all free, all from builders who ship this stuff.
Complete Stripe integration walkthroughs — from Checkout to subscriptions to webhooks.
The subscription lifecycle, billing portal, trials, and the event-driven webhook patterns that keep your database in sync with Stripe.
Handling Stripe webhooks safely — signature verification, idempotency, replay handling, and testing with stripe listen.
Building marketplace payments with Stripe Connect — account onboarding, split payments, and payout management.
Billing meters, reporting usage, and the pricing models that work for AI and consumption-based SaaS products.
The best way to deepen understanding is to read the canonical open-source implementations. Clone them, trace the code, understand how the concepts in this course get applied in production.
Official Stripe Node.js SDK. The /examples directory has reference implementations for every pattern in this course.
Official Stripe Python SDK. The /examples directory covers checkout, subscriptions, webhooks, and Connect from a Python perspective.
Vercel's reference implementation of Stripe subscriptions with Next.js and Supabase — the most-referenced open-source SaaS billing template.
The Stripe CLI source. Use it to forward webhook events to localhost during development — essential for local webhook testing.
Stripe is powerful but the API surface is large. This course covers the 20% of Stripe that handles 80% of SaaS payment scenarios — in the right order.
Billing is where many first-time SaaS founders make expensive mistakes. This course covers the subscription lifecycle patterns that prevent those mistakes.
Stripe Connect handles the complexity of multi-party payments. This course covers the account types, charge models, and compliance requirements that marketplaces need.
The 2-day in-person Precision AI Academy bootcamp covers SaaS billing and payment engineering in depth — hands-on, with practitioners who build AI systems for a living. 5 U.S. cities. $1,490. 40 seats max. June–October 2026 (Thu–Fri).
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