[m12k]

I felt that way until I needed to prepare for the new EU credit card regulation that came into effect a few months back and implement Stripe's update for it. There's a bunch of gotchas in the transition - e.g. you can't apply coupons when creating subscriptions with the new checkout flow (needed to handle 2FA), "sources" and "payment methods" show up in the same list in Stripe's UI, but are not fetched by the same API call. I hope they eventually manage to deprecate and migrate to a single way of doing things because right now it feels messy.

[hag]

Same here. We have a platform with multiple sellers and we use Connected Accounts. Our first integration years ago was so easy and I loved how easy it was to work with the Stripe API. When we needed to update our integration for SCA support we had the exact opposite experience. The migration guides didn't fit our previous integration, maybe because we use Connected Accounts. Also the documentation had multiple bugs and was missing information, we had to make guesses to finish our migration. On top of that we had to upgrade our Stripe.NET-package which also caused a lot of issues for us because of a lot of broken functionality (we still have issues that we need to fix).

[ffritz]

I can confirm this experience. Integrating all this new stuff meant keeping open multiple pages from the docs in parallel, each of which had a warning at the top that certain aspects are different and sends you yet to another page, depending on the integration, it felt like a giant spaghetti mess. I also found some bugs, for example, it was not possible to input sub-cent amounts on their dashboard for tiered plans.

On the other hand, a couple mails and a quick chat on their IRC resolved most of it. But I really wish there would be a clear map/diagram of what route to take depending on what you want to achieve.

[timed0]

Same experience here. Initial integration for 1-off purchases was easy peasy. Updating to PaymentIntents to support SCA was non-obvious. Trawled back and forth through many pages of documents many times before we got there. In the end, the code changes are few but I feel we could have got there via some easier route.

[oauea]

As someone who just started using Stripe with no prior experience with their api, the current state is very confusing.

[ElCapitanMarkla]

Until you get your head around their way of doing things with Payment Intents etc it can be a bit confusing. But its not too bad, ask questions in their IRC or online help, the team they have on those are fantastic.

[CaptainMarvel]

I heard developers saying this in real-life as well about SCA (Strong Customer Authentication).