Blog: Allison Farris(1)
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Summary:
Learn how Stripe payments work under the hood by understanding the PaymentIntent lifecycle as a state machine—from checkout and tokenization to authorization, capture, and settlement—and why webhooks are essential for keeping your systems in sync with asynchronous payment state changes.
Author:Allison Farris
Topic:
Getting Started
Best Practices
Payments
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