I found Stripe usage quite complicated. It felt like they were handling very complex use cases at the expense of simpler ones (which are probably the majority).
It's one of those things where once you're already "in the know", the simple use cases are in fact simple to implement. But sifting through the massive and complex API set, with outdated and partial documentation/examples all over the internet, it's very difficult to get into. Every single example starts with "this is not production ready..." And the official docs are difficult to piece together into an "E2E best practices" setup.
Not saying there is a better solution, just that as a competent dev with a simple use case, I found Stripe overly complex.
It's one of those things where once you're already "in the know", the simple use cases are in fact simple to implement. But sifting through the massive and complex API set, with outdated and partial documentation/examples all over the internet, it's very difficult to get into. Every single example starts with "this is not production ready..." And the official docs are difficult to piece together into an "E2E best practices" setup.
Not saying there is a better solution, just that as a competent dev with a simple use case, I found Stripe overly complex.