Stripe Game Payments

Purpose

In-app purchases, subscriptions, consumables, webhooks, idempotency, and fraud prevention for games using Stripe.

When to Use

Trigger: payments, Stripe, IAP, in-app purchase, subscription, premium, battle pass, virtual currency, webhook, checkout, monetization

Prerequisites

• postgres-game-schema (player accounts, inventory, currency tables)
• betterauth-integration (authenticated player sessions)

Core Principles

Sid Meier: "A game is a series of interesting decisions." Monetization should enable interesting decisions, not replace them.