Keep Stripe in sync
Your product enforces access in real time, but billing lives in Stripe, and the two have to agree. When a subscription, plan, add-on, or quantity changes, both your app and Stripe need to reflect it, without anyone updating records by hand.
Common approaches
The do-it-yourself version is a two-way integration. In one direction you listen for Stripe webhooks, subscription created, updated, canceled, payment failed, and translate each into the right entitlement changes in your app. In the other, you push changes made in your product, an upgrade, an added seat, a cancellation, back to Stripe so billing reflects them.
Getting that integration correct is a real project, and keeping it correct is the harder part. Every new plan, add-on, or usage-based product is another mapping to maintain, and subscription lifecycle states like past-due, paused, or incomplete each need a deliberate decision about whether access should continue. Miss one of those edge cases and the two systems quietly disagree, so a customer keeps access after canceling, or loses it after a payment that actually succeeded.
How Schematic fits in
Schematic runs a bidirectional sync with Stripe. Map plans and add-ons to Stripe products and usage features to metered products; changes made through Schematic checkout and the customer portal write straight to Stripe, while subscription changes in Stripe provision or revoke entitlements automatically. Subscription status drives access, so cancellations and failed payments move customers to the right state without custom code.
Learn more
- Stripe Integration — how the bidirectional sync works end to end.
- Stripe Integration Guide — mapping companies, plans, and prices correctly.
- Stripe App — manage Schematic from inside the Stripe dashboard.
- Automatically provision customers using Stripe — a playbook for provisioning from subscriptions.