# Stripe

> Payments, mine and my clients'.

- Verdict: My default
- Vendor: Stripe
- Layer: [Business tools](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/layers/business.md). Job: Payments
- Last reviewed: 18 October 2026, by Nicolas Dao (Cloudless Labs, Sydney)
- Web page: https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/stripe/. The whole stack in one file: https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/brief.md

For my own business and for clients.

## Use it when

- Taking money online.

## Provisioning

Official Pulumi package · Official Terraform provider

Stripe's Terraform provider (pre-1.0) and Pulumi package in public preview: products, prices, webhooks.

## Worked examples

- [The flash sale](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/guides/flash-sale/index.md): What happens when 50,000 people press "Buy" in the same ten seconds?

## Where it fits

- [A traffic spike I can see coming](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/use-cases/flash-sale.md): pick 4. Payment.
- [Running the business](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/use-cases/business.md): pick 1. Payments.

## Related

- [Business tools](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/layers/business.md): every tool in this layer, with its verdict
- [The whole stack in one file](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/brief.md): every use case and tool, for questions that span many
- [Map of every Markdown file on cloudlesslabs.com, with what each one answers](https://ask.cloudlesslabs.com)