#018: Stripe Pay-As-You-Go: it's easier than you think

Stripe is a fantastic service and it has certainly made payment collection uneversal and easy.

However, it now has so many functions that it is easy to get confused not quite knowing how to create a robust and simple integration.

Today I'm going to cover a very straightforward implementation of the Pay as you go scheme that works very well with agentic services where the user "TopsUp" their account and then you keep track of usage on an ongoing basis and refuse service when the usage exceeds what the user has paid.

In this article we are goin to look at:

• Implementing pay as you go strategy in python

• Keeping track of user balance

• Handling stripe webhooks to ensure our view of user balance is consistent

Let's jump right into it!