Integration of Stripe Connect Into Your Project
Almost every service on the Internet today deals with money. And dealing with money requires a robust Billing system. Building your own billing system is a pain. It is a crucial component that should be highly available, secure, and 100% bug-free; otherwise, your users or your business might lose some money, which is unacceptable.At Mad Devs, we prefer to use robust, suitable, and resource-saving solutions if possible. That is why we often use Stripe & Stripe Connect to enable billing for our products. That saves our clients a lot of time, money, and negative emotions.Stripe, as well as Stripe Connect, is very easy to integrate: it has a lot of documentation and a very simple and powerful API. Yet, for those who are new to online payments & e-commerce, Stripe integration might cause issues and unexpected side effects. This article is to describe some of our lessons learned so that when you integrate Stripe Connect for your business, you can easily avoid or overcome them.If you link cards to your users' accounts or you accept card payments, make sure users authorize the cards; otherwise, you might have a lot of fraud resulting in disputes. Card authorization happens in several steps. You request basic card details and make sure they are passed to Stripe so that it can verify the card. But it is very easy to break the defense if a person has stolen/scanned a card. To completely avoid cases of stolen cards being used, use 3D Secure.
