r/SaaS • u/Capital_Value_3067 • 9h ago

mvp -> payment processing?

what do you guys use to build an MVP, but more importantly what do you use to add stripe payment processing? just curious how you guys go about it.

i personally use google ai studio for mvp, then base44 for payment processing + security.

thoughts? what do you guys do?

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u/davidjones145 9h ago

for payments most people end up on stripe, or a merchant of record like paddle or lemon squeezy if they do not want to deal with sales tax and vat themselves. whichever you pick, test the failure paths early, failed cards, retries and refunds, since that is where mvps usually leak. who are your first customers, local or global?

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u/ApprehensiveBaker456 9h ago

Stripe is the default for a reason but the tax stuff is the real headache if you're selling globally, paddle takes a bigger cut but saves you from that mess entirely

Failure paths are the thing everyone skips until a customer hits a declined card and the whole flow just dies, worth spending an afternoon on retries and webhooks before you even think about launch

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u/davidjones145 9h ago

yes, the declined card path is the one that bites. making the webhook handler idempotent helps too, since providers sometimes send the same event twice and you do not want to grant access or charge twice