payments

payments is a skill for Claude Code from whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (2,008 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to payments and billing operations using Stripe, a service for accepting online payments and managing subscriptions. It covers products and prices, payment flows, customer self-service, failed payments, refunds, tax collection, and webhooks, which notify an app about payment events.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up subscriptions, connect Stripe to an app, test purchases and failed payments, manage refunds and taxes, and handle billing-related problems.
Why use it?
It helps avoid billing mistakes that can lose money or damage customer trust. It also organizes the configuration and testing needed before accepting real payments.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the solo-founder-skills plugin — 54 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to set up subscriptions, connect Stripe to an app, test purchases and failed payments, manage refunds and taxes, and handle billing-related problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/payments
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills --skill payments
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install solo-founder-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 1 command.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,008 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00065 $0.02008
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01004
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00402
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00201

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9cf357e343e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

payments scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/payments/SKILL.md · 236 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 236 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Payments & Billing Operations

Billing is 20% code and 80% configuration and business decisions. This skill helps you set up Stripe correctly, handle the edge cases, and avoid the mistakes that lose customer trust.

Core Principles

  • Stripe is the right choice for 95% of bootstrapped SaaS. Do not overthink this decision.
  • Test mode exists for a reason. Never touch live mode until you've tested every flow.
  • Billing is the one place you cannot "move fast and break things." A billing bug loses trust permanently.
  • Automate everything. Manual invoicing doesn't scale and you will forget.
  • Tax compliance is not optional. Set it up from day one.

Stripe Setup Checklist

Stripe Configuration:
- [ ] Create Stripe account and verify identity
- [ ] Enable test mode (toggle in top-right of dashboard)
- [ ] Set up products and prices in Stripe Dashboard (not in code)
- [ ] Configure Customer Portal (Settings -> Billing -> Customer portal)
- [ ] Enable Stripe Tax (Settings -> Tax)
- [ ] Set up webhook endpoint in your app
- [ ] Add Stripe keys to environment variables
- [ ] Test complete purchase flow (test card: 4242424242424242)
- [ ] Test failed payment (decline card: 4000000000000002)
- [ ] Test subscription cancellation and upgrade/downgrade flows
- [ ] Switch to live mode, re-add live API keys
- [ ] Make one real purchase with your own card to verify

Tell AI:

Set up Stripe subscription billing for my SaaS:
- Monthly and annual pricing tiers: [list your tiers and prices]
- Checkout flow using Stripe Checkout (hosted payment page)
- Customer Portal for managing subscriptions
- Webhook handler for subscription events
- Environment variables for Stripe keys
Use [your framework/stack].

Products & Prices: Dashboard First

Always create products and prices in the Stripe Dashboard. Then reference them by Price ID in your code.

How to Set Up

  1. Stripe Dashboard -> Products -> Create one Product per tier (e.g., "Starter", "Pro")
  2. Add two Prices per product — monthly and annual
  3. Copy the Price IDs (price_...) into your app config
  4. Use lookup keys for cleaner code (e.g., starter_monthly, pro_annual)

Read the full file on GitHub · 236 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 236 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 9cf357e343e3

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payments is a skill published in the GitHub repository whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills (243 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 2,008 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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