Accept Payments

Connect one gateway first. Your goal is a complete sandbox purchase: a signed-in user checks out, the webhook arrives, and the app shows the correct plan.

Before You Start

Have a working app and a gateway account with sandbox/test access. Prepare the plans you want to sell, their amounts, currency, and billing intervals. For webhooks, use a publicly reachable HTTPS test deployment or a provider-supported forwarding tool.

Keep live credentials and real charges out of this first test. You can keep config.payments.enableBilling=false until configuration is ready.

1. Choose One Gateway

Choose based on merchant eligibility, markets, payment methods, and business needs. Availability depends on the provider and your account; you do not need all four accounts.

2. Connect Your Plans

In packages/config/src/index.ts, keep your stable app plan IDs in payments.productCatalog. In your selected app:

• src/config/saas/pricing-desc.ts: plan titles, descriptions, features.
• src/config/saas/pricing-desc-usage.ts: amounts, currency, recurring intervals, and purchasable items.

Create matching products/prices in the gateway dashboard. Follow its guide for the exact ID to copy. Map each configured plan to that gateway's environment variables. For example, a Stripe setup in the app .env.local uses:

BILLING_DEFAULT_GATEWAY="muse_stripe"
STRIPE_SECRET_KEY="YOUR_TEST_SECRET_KEY"
STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET="YOUR_TEST_WEBHOOK_SECRET"
STRIPE_PRODUCT_ID_PRO_MONTHLY="YOUR_MONTHLY_PRICE_ID"
STRIPE_PRODUCT_ID_PRO_YEARLY="YOUR_YEARLY_PRICE_ID"
STRIPE_PRODUCT_ID_LIFETIME="YOUR_ONE_TIME_PRICE_ID"

Keep provider price, currency, and interval aligned with the app. originalAmount only displays a comparison price; it does not change the gateway price. Workers local settings also go in .dev.vars; production secrets belong on your host.

3. Register the Webhook

Use your test origin plus the gateway path:

Copy the provider's signing secret where applicable and enable the events listed in its guide. Waffo uses its SDK signature verifier and WAFFO_ENVIRONMENT=test, without a separate webhook-secret variable. A browser success redirect alone does not establish paid access; the server processes webhook state.

4. Complete a Sandbox Purchase

Enable payments.enableBilling, restart/redeploy with your test settings, and sign in as a development user. Open /pricing, choose a configured plan, and complete checkout with the provider's sandbox method. Wait for the webhook, then inspect the user's plan and account billing page.

Check Your Result

• Pricing shows the intended plan and the provider checkout uses the expected amount, currency, and interval.
• The provider reports successful webhook delivery.
• The app shows the correct plan/access window for the purchasing user after refresh.
• Subscription management works through the gateway portal when using a subscription plan.
• A failed or canceled checkout does not grant paid access.

Common Problems

Before switching to live mode, create live products, replace test credentials and webhook configuration, and complete the Release Checklist. Do not use development seed accounts in production.