Hey, Albert here.
Integrating Stripe should be easy.
But if you’ve ever gone beyond a basic checkout flow, you know the drill: webhook chaos, race conditions, duplicate events, misaligned user states… and suddenly, that “quick Stripe setup” eats your entire afternoon (or worse—production bugs).
That frustration is exactly why I built paykit-cli
It’s a one-prompt CLI tool that wires up a complete, production-ready Stripe integration. It’s framework-aware, auth-aware, and battle-tested against the subtle bugs Stripe doesn’t warn you about.
Quickstart
🎉 Ta-da!
npx paykit-cli@latestThat's it, this post could end up here. Let's understand what's happening behind the scenes.
Why Stripe Integrations Break (and How paykit-cli Fixes It)
Most developers follow the official Stripe guides:
- Create a Checkout Session
- Redirect the user
- Listen to a webhook
- Update your database
Seems fine, right? Until you realize:
- The webhook can arrive before your DB is ready.
- Stripe sends duplicate events - did you handle that?
- Your backend can't always link the session to the user.
- You start adding "fixes" that make things worse.
Here's what paykit-cli does differently:
- ✅ Sets up idempotent logic out of the box
- ✅ Handles session-user binding securely
- ✅ De-duplicates webhooks with Upstash KV
- ✅ Scaffolds clean, type-safe backend handlers
- ✅ Injects auth-aware logic for Clerk, Supabase, or NextAuth
- ✅ Works with Next.js 13+, and soon more frameworks
In short: it handles everything Stripe forgot to tell you.
Coming Soon
Support for other frameworks as demand grows.
Check it out for yourself on the OS repository.
Built with care ❤️