Showcase Your Stripe Skills with a GitHub README Badge

Use this markdown in your README:

![Stripe](https://img.shields.io/badge/Stripe-635BFF?style=for-the-badge&logo=stripe&logoColor=white)

The #635BFF is Stripe's signature purple from their brand guidelines. The stripe logo identifier renders Stripe's stylized 'S' logo from Simple Icons. This purple badge stands out distinctively from typical blue and green backend tool badges, immediately signaling payment engineering context to anyone reading your profile.

Stripe's API surface is broad — specify which aspects you have used in production:

• Payments: Stripe Checkout, Payment Intents API, card element integration
• Subscriptions: Products, Prices, subscription lifecycle (upgrades, downgrades, cancellations, trials)
• Webhooks: Event handling with signature verification, idempotent processing, retry handling
• Connect: Marketplace payments, platform fees, connected accounts
• Billing: Customer portal, invoice management, proration
• CLI: Stripe CLI for local webhook testing during development

Webhook reliability is a strong signal of Stripe maturity. Mentioning that you implement idempotent webhook handlers with event deduplication demonstrates understanding of distributed payment systems that goes well beyond basic Checkout integration.

Stripe integrates across multiple backend stacks:

• Node.js SaaS: Stripe + Node.js + Express/NestJS + PostgreSQL
• Python SaaS: Stripe + Django/FastAPI + Python + PostgreSQL
• Next.js full-stack: Stripe + Next.js + TypeScript + Supabase
• Ruby on Rails: Stripe + Rails + PostgreSQL + Sidekiq

Stripe and authentication providers (Auth0, Clerk, Supabase Auth) commonly appear together in SaaS architectures. The pattern of 'user authenticated → subscription provisioned → webhook updates access' is a core SaaS pattern worth describing in your profile bio or project READMEs if billing and authentication integration is a strength.

Stripe integration work is done in your server-side language — Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, etc. Your language stats reflect your stack, not the Stripe integration itself. However, having a well-structured Stripe webhook handler in a public repository is a concrete, reviewable demonstration of payment engineering competence.

For pinned repositories, a SaaS starter template or boilerplate with Stripe subscription integration is a high-value showcase. Many developers search GitHub for exactly this type of reference implementation. A project with working Stripe Checkout, webhook handler with proper signature verification, and subscription status enforcement on protected routes demonstrates the complete payment flow that most tutorials skip over.