Sep 11, 2026
Floating by default: a crypto sale's price can move after checkout
A card sale is priced once. A NOWPayments invoice quotes one rate and can settle at another, unless you freeze the ten minutes between. We shipped both flows.
Creator-economy monetization
The money mechanics no pricing page explains.
Payment rails, memberships, pricing, refunds and churn, for people selling to an audience. We built a subscription platform on Stripe Connect, Telegram Stars and crypto payouts, then shut it down. The fee schedules and failure modes written up here are the ones we actually hit.
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Browse by topic →- Sep 8, 2026
Upgrade now, downgrade at renewal: the switch you have to design
A member upgrades on day nine. Stripe can bill the difference now, at the next renewal, or not at all, and choosing between those is your job, once per switch.
- Sep 4, 2026
Your first sale is waiting on Stripe
We built the platform side of Stripe Connect. Between connecting it and your first sale sits a verification step no platform shows you, and it reopens later.
- Sep 2, 2026
Refund, reversal, chargeback: the three ways a sale comes undone
We built the refund path for cards, Telegram Stars and crypto. Reversing a sale varies more between rails than making one does; timing matters more than both.
- Aug 28, 2026
Nobody cancelled: what happens when a member's card fails
A failed renewal starts a countdown your member cannot see. How long it runs, who gets told, and what removal does are decisions your processor leaves to you.
- Aug 25, 2026
Four settings your platform picked that decide what you keep
Your money lands in a Stripe account with your name on it and someone else's settings on it. We built that platform side - here is what those settings do.
- Aug 23, 2026
Card, Stars or crypto: what a $10 sale actually pays out
We shipped all three payment rails into the same product in ten weeks. The percentage fee turned out to be the least important difference between them.
