Nathan TranSnapPay is a Stripe-plus billing SDK for founders who want payments without webhooks. Create a checkout in 1 line, get clean SSE events instead of dozens of webhooks, and track credits, seats, or feature access out of the box. Ship Stripe-powered payments in minutes, not weeks.
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Hey everyone 👋 We built SnapPay after wiring up Stripe for multiple products and realizing we were rebuilding the same mini billing system every time: checkout sessions, webhooks, subscription state, usage limits, and “can this user access X?” checks. What we really wanted was: one line to start checkout and one clean stream of events back into our app. SnapPay is our attempt at that. Under the hood it’s still Stripe, but on top you get: ↳ 1-line checkout for a plan or product ↳ Server-Sent Events (SSE) instead of webhook endpoints ↳ Built-in usage & access APIs for credits, seats, and feature flags It’s especially useful if you’re: ▷ Selling one main plan (e.g. a Pro tier) ▷ Pricing AI/API usage (messages, tokens, seats) ▷ Shipping micro-SaaS or side projects and don’t want to own billing infra 🚀 This launch is our first public release, with JS/TS SDK + dashboard and docs. I’d love to hear what you’re currently doing for payments (DIY Stripe, wrappers, no billing yet?) and what would make SnapPay a no-brainer for you. Happy to answer any technical questions in the comments!
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Really impressed by how fast SnapPay is to integrate. Setting up basic payments literally took minutes.
Some suggestions from my experience:
The developer documentation is good, but adding more real-world examples (e.g., SaaS seat upgrades, feature gating) would help new users onboard faster.
A visual dashboard for usage-based billing would make it even stronger.
Checkout works well, but support for more themes or UI presets would be nice.
Great product — feels like Stripe with much less friction.
Cool work, team 💪🏻 Any plans to let us programmatically feed product/plan data from our app into SnapPay?
Interesting, I’m in the middle of building a usage-based billing model right now. Going to check this out and see if it fits, looks promising.
and congrats on the launch!
Amazing launch! 🚀 I have a few questions as I’m exploring this:
If I already have Stripe connected, how hard is it to migrate to SnapPay?
Is billing state stored on your side or handled in my app?
Any plans for no-code or low-code support for non-technical teams?
Excited to see where this goes!
Never thought of a getaway from Stripe nightmare so this is a good idea. I have read the documentation and quite interested. May I ask:
- Does it still require a Stripe account to set up?
- How do you handle payment security for this product?