Stripe development at ZeroPixel
Stripe is the payments infrastructure behind millions of businesses, and its documentation is famously good — which creates a trap. Following the quick-start gets money moving in an afternoon; handling failed cards, disputed charges, VAT, refunds, webhook retries and customers who downgrade mid-cycle is the other ninety percent, and it's where untested integrations quietly leak revenue.
ZeroPixel builds Stripe integrations for UK businesses the complete way: checkout and subscription flows that convert, webhook handling that survives outages and replays, billing logic that matches what your accountant needs to see, and the customer-facing pieces — payment pages, invoices, billing portals — polished to the standard of the rest of your product.
We work across Stripe's range: one-off payments, recurring subscriptions with trials and proration, usage-based billing, invoicing, and Stripe Connect for marketplaces that split payments between parties. All of it in TypeScript, all of it tested against the failure cases before your customers find them.
Stripe work we take on
From a checkout button to a full marketplace — these are the four shapes of payments work UK businesses bring us.
Checkout & one-off payments
Payment flows that convert — Apple Pay, Google Pay and cards, with 3D Secure handled and failure states that recover sales instead of losing them.
Subscriptions & billing
Plans, trials, upgrades, proration, dunning for failed cards — the full lifecycle, wired to webhooks that never miss an event.
Marketplace payments
Stripe Connect flows that onboard sellers, split payments, and handle payouts — the machinery under platforms and marketplaces.
Billing operations
Customer portals, invoice handling, refund tooling and revenue reporting that reconciles with your accounts — not just your dashboard.
Why hire ZeroPixel for Stripe work
- The failure cases are the job
- Anyone can charge a card that works. We test declined cards, expired cards, disputed charges, double-fired webhooks and mid-cycle plan changes — because that's where real money gets lost.
- Compliance without drama
- SCA and 3D Secure for UK/EU cards, VAT handling, and PCI-scope kept minimal by using Stripe's hosted elements properly. Your flows pass European banking rules from day one.
- Revenue you can reconcile
- We build so that what Stripe reports, what your database records, and what your accountant sees all agree. Month-end stops being an investigation.
Stripe — common questions
Can you add Stripe to our existing website or app?
Yes — most of our Stripe work is integration into existing products: a website that needs to take payments, a SaaS moving from manual invoicing to subscriptions, an app replacing PayPal. We work in your existing codebase and stack, and the checkout experience ends up matching your product rather than looking bolted on.
Can you fix a Stripe integration that's misbehaving?
Yes, and the symptoms are usually familiar: subscriptions out of sync with access, webhooks silently failing, customers charged twice or not at all. We audit the integration, reconcile the historical data, then rebuild the fragile parts — usually the webhook handling — properly. Billing bugs compound, so this is work worth doing sooner than later.
Do you handle UK VAT and European card rules?
Yes. We configure Stripe Tax for VAT collection and reporting, and build all card flows through Stripe's SCA-compliant components so 3D Secure challenges happen when banks require them. What we don't do is give tax advice — we build to the rules your accountant confirms, and make their job easy.
How much does a Stripe integration cost?
A clean checkout integration is typically a low four-figure project; full subscription billing with webhooks, portal and dunning sits higher; marketplace builds with Connect are quoted on scope. Fixed written quotes as always. Stripe's own fees are per-transaction and published openly — we have no markup on them.
Stripe or PayPal or GoCardless?
For card payments and subscriptions in a modern product, Stripe is usually the right default — best developer platform, best checkout conversion, broadest feature set. GoCardless wins for UK Direct Debit-heavy billing, and PayPal is worth adding when your audience expects the button. These combine well, and we'll recommend based on how your customers actually pay.
Beyond Stripe
A stack is a set of choices that have to work together — these are the pieces we most often pair with Stripe, and where we do it.
Building with Stripe?
Tell us what you're making — we'll reply within one working day with an honest take and a fixed quote.