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by allknowingfrog 686 days ago
We also built our Stripe integration using only the testing tools they provide. The first real payment in production was completed by our product guy, but only as a sanity check. Maybe we got lucky, or maybe Stripe is just that easy to integrate with, but we haven't been surprised by any production behavior.
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bigiain 685 days ago
A "sanity check" is a test. Alway always always test that real prod payments end up in the bank account they're supposed to before whoever can rollback goes home for the day. _Always._ And document the existence/process/details/outcome of that "sanity check" test.

DAMHIK.

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allknowingfrog 685 days ago
Not documenting the existence/process/details/outcome is exactly the distinction that I intended to make when I called it a "sanity check". I was really just offering a data point, not a comprehensive guide to best practice.
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