Why does Agent struggle with Stripe so much?

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Widely and well-documented API, perhaps the best ever, but it just can’t seem to get it right. What’s the trick?

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Hi! I am one of the Replit engineers that work on integrations. Could you share your prompt and/or your repl so we can figure out what happened? You may share privately.

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Did you get anywhere with stripe? I’m keen to use it too.

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Hi I’ve been able to use it for both js and flask apps on Replit. It’s tricky and you do have to have some understanding of the Stripe API vs. it just automatically working. I haven’t implemented it with new apps since Sonnet 4 dropped so I’d imagine its improving.

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Oh, I get it working, but with as well-documented as it is, and hyper-prevalent, I’d expect AI agents to understand how to implement it better.

The main issue usually comes from lack of clarity on when you need to create product codes/prices in stripe BEFORE you start building your integration in Replit. This can be muddy waters and really trip you up.

The easiest thing, of course, is to use Stripe’s hosted checkout pages. This makes it a breeze. But if you want self-hosted, in-line checkout, it can get squirrely.

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Second the Stripe hosted checkout pages. You get a lot more confidence that Stripe is handling things that way.

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I can’t get my users the subscriptions they paid for. It’s so annoying and I’ve just been running in circles with the agent. Everything is good webhook wise. URLs are good. The website just won’t give the users their subscriptions. I’ve literally spent $156 dollars on wasted agent “work”.

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Can you share a link to the site?

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Big improvements on the way in this department.

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Stripe’s API is great, but the challenge is usually in handling dynamic responses and authentication flow. The key is consistent schema mapping and event testing.

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As Eric said some time back, the easy solution is Stripe hosted checkout pages - these can be knocked out in 5 mins. And for most use cases are sufficient.

I wonder if some people realise they even exist? Or if, when asking the agent for help, they are being directed to integrate a full blown and unnecessary bespoke stripe integration?

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They also, as of now since they are so ubiquitous, offer a lot of comfort and conversion boost for visitors.

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Hi iam using replit and i have some issues with the agent he made alot of mistakes and i think he spent more than half of my credits and i like to get a refund on my credits back how can we solve this

I hope you get back to me

Regards, Fred