Stripe-Ready • Session-Based • Developer-Friendly

Stop Coding Billing Plumbing. Start Activating Users.

Skip the billing slog. Drop in the account you want to charge and we host the story, capture the email, process every webhook, track renewals and cancellations, and keep sending you a clean yes/no so your app always knows how to behave.

Single account_ref_id call Email captured pre-checkout Status check endpoint ready
The Hidden Scope Creep

Shipping Stripe is never just Stripe

The moment you try to sell a plan, the backlog fills with tables, email syncing, receipt logic, and duplicate-handling scripts just to guard against webhook retries. The launch slips while you wire plumbing instead of activating users.

ecom9 was built for founders who want Stripe live without pausing the roadmap. We keep the moving pieces off your plate so you keep building the product.

Where teams lose the sprint
Data choreographing

Subscriptions, invoices, trials, and ledger tables balloon beyond a single sprint.

Checkout detective work

Every Stripe response, receipt email, and webhook retry needs custom parsing.

Webhook dedupe babysitting

You wire temp tables and cron jobs just to avoid double-provisioning.

Marketing blind spots

You still need to capture the email before checkout or lose the lead entirely.

Integration, front to back

Exactly how the ecom9 handshake runs

  1. 01
    Kick off checkout with your account_ref_id

    Call our endpoint (or SDK helper) with the internal ID you already use to track the account. Override the plan handle if you want something special for this checkout.

    Why it matters: No temp session tables, no signing dance, just the reference you already trust.

  2. 02
    We host the page and capture the email

    Your pricing narrative renders on our landing page. Before Stripe launches, the user drops their email so you can follow up even if they bail.

    Result: Marketing and product data stay in sync without extra forms or Zapier glue.

  3. 03
    Stripe Checkout handles payment

    We redirect straight into Stripe Checkout with the amount, plan, and attribution data baked in, with no custom UI and no theme refactor.

    Upside: Stripe does what it does best while your team ships features.

  4. 04
    Your webhook gets a simple yes/no payload

    We post back status, transaction_uuid, account_ref_id, and the billing details so you know exactly what to do.

    Action: Provision on success, skip if it's a retry or failure, with no additional bookkeeping needed.

  5. 05
    Check status any time

    Hit our status endpoint with the same account_ref_id to see the customer’s current plan and latest transaction.

    Bonus: Skip writing “what plan are they on?” queries inside your SaaS and we keep it current for you.

What you send us

One field, optionally a plan override

Kick off checkout with a straight HTTP call or our SDK. No front-end embed, no CMS refactor, no billing theme to maintain.

  • account_ref_id – the internal account or user ID you already have
  • plan handle (optional) – override the default plan configured for the page
What comes back

A tidy yes/no payload you can trust

We ping the endpoint you configure with status, transaction_uuid, and the billing details so your app knows exactly what happened.

{
  "status": "success",
  "transaction_uuid": "txn_5ac3e6d0-3b9c-4f41-9e17-2f7f0b1c92de",
  "account_ref_id": "acct_84219",
  "stripe_subscription_id": "sub_1N5ZyR...",
  "amount": 2900,
  "currency": "usd",
  "plan": "starter-monthly"
}

Stripe can retry all it wants; the transaction_uuid keeps it idempotent without extra tables on your side.

Built for busy dev teams

Your engineers keep writing product code

Drop the call into your service layer, redirect to the URL we hand back, and focus on the features that differentiate you. That’s the whole loop.

Need us to host multiple offers? We’ll version the landing page and pricing copy so marketing can run experiments without touching your repo.

You still own the logic after payment, just without the overhead before it.

Checkout kickoff in code
# server-side
checkout = StartCheckout(
    api_key=E9_API_KEY,
    sign_key=E9_SIGN_KEY,
    account_ref_id=user.account_ref_id,
    plan="starter-monthly"
)

return redirect(checkout.redirect_url)

# later in your webhook handler
if payload["status"] == "success":
    provision_user(payload["account_ref_id"], payload["plan"])

# optional status check anywhere
status = CheckoutStatus(api_key=E9_API_KEY).get(account_ref_id=user.account_ref_id)
No front-end rebuild

We maintain the landing UI, FAQ, and objection handling for you.

Idempotent by default

Use the transaction_uuid or status endpoint so there are no temp tables and no duplicate provisioning.

“We deleted two sprints of Stripe plumbing. ecom9 hosted the page, captured the email, handled every webhook, and keeps subscription status ready. Now we just check the yes/no they send for each account and ship product instead.”

Early-stage SaaS founder, launched beta weekend with ecom9
What your team keeps:
  • Ownership of the user journey after payment success
  • Control of pricing, copy, and experiments through ecom9
  • Time back to ship core product work
Questions, answered

Still thinking through the edge cases?

Every SaaS team wants to know what happens when Stripe retries, when pricing changes, or when a customer switches plans. Here’s how we handle the most common asks.

Need something custom? We’ll scope the handoff with you so the webhook payload slots right into your existing logic.

Nope. We tack on a transaction_uuid to every webhook so you can spot duplicates instantly, and you can always call the status endpoint with the same account_ref_id to confirm the customer’s current plan. No temp tables required unless you want the extra audit trail.

Absolutely. You pick the Stripe price IDs and we render the right plan narrative. Trials, one-time setup fees, credits, or digital currency balances can be echoed back in the payload so your product logic can react instantly.

We ship you sandbox and live keys out of the gate. Point your staging app at our sandbox endpoint with Stripe test keys, hammer the flow, then swap in the live keys when you launch. Most teams do the handoff in under an hour.

We send the same account_ref_id and transaction_uuid every time so you can spot duplicates. If the webhook fails, Stripe will retry and your handler can perform the same checks without double charging or re-subscribing the user.