How to implement payment to your product?

I am building Watcher37 and Link37, and I want to add payment functionality to them. But I also don't want to spend too much time on this.

The first solution I tried is using ko-fi, I set up a shop there, and added 5 tickets. After you buy a ticket, you will get a txt file containing a ticket id. Then you can use the id in Watcher37 or Link37 to finish the payment. In the backend I will update the expiresAt of your account to 1 year later.

This is ok, but not scalable. I need to manually add it for every ticket. (And they charge a small 5% fee for each transaction).

Then I got an email from buy me a coffee, that they are releasing webhook feature. So I can set up a shop there, create an endpoint in my backend, and when someone buys a ticket, buymeacoffee will send a request to my endpoint, and I can update the expiresAt of the user's account. Sounds good.

But when users buy ticket from the shop, I don't have their user id. I thought for sure there is a text area at checkout, so I can ask users to leave their user id there, and the webhook can extract it from the request body. It's not nice but I can live with it. But there isn't, you can leave nothing when checkout in buymeacoffee's shop.

Finally, I tell myself, let's not be lazy, maybe just check Stripe. And it turns out stripe also has something similar to everyone else's shop feature, they call it payment links, no code solution, supports webhook, and you can add custom fields!

Super easy to setup, in the end it looks like this for me:

And for the webhook, mine looks like this:

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  import Stripe from 'stripe';

  const stripe = new Stripe(process.env.STRIPE_SECRET);

  async stripe(request) {
    const payload = request.rawBody;
    const sig =
      request.headers['stripe-signature'] ||
      request.headers['Stripe-Signature'];

    let event;

    try {
      event = stripe.webhooks.constructEvent(payload, sig, process.env.STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET);
    } catch (err) {
      console.log('stripe_error', err);
      return { message: 'invalid stripe signature' };
    }

    if (event.type === 'checkout.session.completed') {
      const userId = event?.data?.object?.custom_fields?.[0]?.text?.value;
      const email = event?.data?.object?.customer_details?.email;
      const productId = event?.data?.object?.custom_fields?.[0]?.key;

      if (!userId || !email || !productId) {
        return { message: 'invalid user data' };
      }

      // Update data in your DB

      return { message: 'success' };
    }

    return { message: `unhandled error type: ${event.type}` };
  }

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Hope this helps, and give Watcher37 and Link37 a try :)

Btw, I am using claudiajs for my backend.