Stripe

Stripe Payments

Key Capabilities

• Checkout Sessions: Hosted payment pages for one-time payments and subscriptions
• Payment Intents: Custom payment flows with full control
• Subscriptions: Recurring billing with flexible pricing
• Customers, Invoices, Refunds, Payment Methods

Best Practices

• Always prefer Checkout Sessions for standard payment flows
• Use Payment Intents only for custom checkout UI or off-session payments
• Never use deprecated Charges API or Sources API
• Enable dynamic payment methods in Dashboard instead of hardcoding payment_method_types
• Use Setup Intents to save payment methods for future use
• Handle webhooks for all async events
• Implement idempotency keys for safe retries
• Never expose secret keys in client-side code
• Do not include API version in code snippets

Common Workflows

One-Time Payment

1. Create Checkout Session (mode: "payment")
2. Redirect customer to session.url
3. Handle webhook for payment_intent.succeeded

Subscription

1. Create/retrieve customer
2. Create Checkout Session (mode: "subscription")
3. Handle webhook for customer.subscription.created

Refund

1. Retrieve payment intent
2. Create refund (full or partial with amount in cents)
3. Handle webhook for charge.refunded

MCP Server Config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stripe": {
      "url": "https://mcp.stripe.com"
    }
  }
}

Resources

• Integration Options
• Go Live Checklist
• Subscription Use Cases
• Testing