Subscriptions and plan changes
Tiered plans, mid-cycle upgrades and downgrades, proration, trials, and cancellations handled through the Subscriptions API without drift between Stripe and your app.
web & commerce / specialist delivery
Stripe billing integration.
Stripe billing and subscriptions done properly: metered usage, proration, dunning, tax, and webhooks wired into your product with reliable reconciliation.
2015Building production software since
8+ yrsLongest active partnership
100%Source and production visibility
5.0Across 18 verified Clutch reviews
Scope
What this service covers.
Stripe is simple to take a single payment with and deceptively hard to run a business on. Subscriptions with mid-cycle upgrades, metered and usage-based pricing, proration, trials, coupons, dunning, and tax turn billing into stateful logic that has to stay correct as customers change plans. We build that logic against the Stripe Billing and Subscriptions APIs and keep your database and Stripe in agreement.
Usage-based and metered billing
Meter events, tiered and graduated pricing, and usage reporting for products that charge on consumption rather than a flat seat price.
Webhooks as source of truth
Idempotent, signature-verified webhook handlers with retry-safe processing, so account state stays correct even when events arrive late, twice, or out of order.
Dunning and churn recovery
Smart retries, failed-payment flows, customer-facing card-update prompts, and Stripe's recovery tooling to reduce involuntary churn.
Tax, invoicing, and compliance
Stripe Tax for automatic VAT and sales tax, hosted invoices, the customer portal, and SCA or 3D Secure handled so checkout clears European authentication.
Reconciliation and reporting
Scheduled reconciliation between Stripe and your database, plus clean reporting so revenue, MRR, and refunds line up across product and finance.
In production
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A clear delivery process
From first decision to production.
The same senior team stays close to scope, architecture, build, launch and what comes next.
- 01
Scope & cost
We agree the outcome, users, integrations, budget and main technical risks before the work starts.
- 02
Architecture
We plan the data, interfaces and failure modes around the way the system needs to operate.
- 03
Build & review
You receive source access, a working environment and regular demonstrations throughout delivery.
- 04
Launch & support
We launch, document and monitor the work, then hand it over or continue as your engineering team.
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Common questions
Planning the work.
01Do you use Stripe Billing or build the subscription logic yourselves?+
Both, depending on the product. Stripe Billing handles standard subscriptions, proration, and invoicing well, and we lean on it where it fits. When pricing is genuinely bespoke, such as hybrid usage plus seats, custom entitlements, or multi-party payouts, we model the subscription state in your own database and drive Stripe through its APIs, keeping the two reconciled.
02How do you stop webhook events from corrupting billing state?+
Every handler is idempotent and verifies the Stripe signature, so a retried or duplicated event is safe to process twice. We record processed event IDs, treat webhooks as the source of truth for state changes, and run scheduled reconciliation against the Stripe API to catch anything a webhook missed.
03Can you migrate our existing billing to Stripe or fix a broken integration?+
Yes. We audit the current setup, its data model, webhook handling, and where Stripe and your records disagree, then propose a focused fix or a migration plan covering customer, subscription, and payment-method transfer. We rehearse the cut-over so live billing is not interrupted.
Start a project
Bring us the exact problem.
Book a 30-minute call with the senior team that will scope and lead the work.