As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly integrate Stripe with your UK business website.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, power-user skill, and roughly 2 hours until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open your website project, hosting panel and Stripe Dashboard, then record the website platform, framework, hosting arrangement, existing checkout flow and whether the site has a server-side component.
   2. Create or select a Stripe test-mode account and gather the non-secret details the integration needs, including the products, prices, currency, VAT treatment, fulfilment action and refund process.
   3. Paste the prompt into an AI coding tool and replace the bracketed slots with your website details and non-sensitive code only, leaving API keys and webhook secrets as placeholders.
   4. Ask the tool to produce changes for your actual stack, then apply them in a separate branch or staging copy rather than editing the live website first.
   5. In Stripe test mode, configure the webhook endpoint and run the prompt's test cases, comparing Stripe Dashboard events, order records, emails, refunds and fulfilment actions for each result.
   6. Ask a qualified web developer to inspect secret storage, webhook signature verification, access controls, duplicate-event handling and logging, then deploy the approved changes and switch to live keys only after the checks pass.

   Prompt

   Act as a senior web developer helping me integrate Stripe with an existing UK business website. Do not ask me to paste API keys, passwords, webhook signing secrets or customer data into this chat. Use placeholders for secrets and explain exactly where each secret belongs.
   
   Website details:
   - Website URL or local project description: [website description]
   - Technology and hosting: [for example WordPress, Shopify, Laravel, Next.js, PHP, hosting provider]
   - Existing checkout or payment flow: [describe it]
   - What I sell: [products or services]
   - Prices, currency and VAT treatment: [details]
   - Required payment methods: [details]
   - What should happen after a successful payment: [fulfilment, account creation, email or other action]
   - What should happen after a failed, cancelled or refunded payment: [details]
   - Existing code or relevant files: [paste only non-sensitive code]
   
   Give me a production-minded implementation plan and the smallest complete code changes for my stated stack. Include:
   1. Stripe Dashboard settings to create or check.
   2. Separate test-mode and live-mode configuration.
   3. Server-side payment creation and confirmation, with no secret key in browser code.
   4. Webhook endpoint code that verifies the Stripe signature, handles duplicate events safely and records the event before fulfilment.
   5. Success, cancellation, failure and refund handling.
   6. The exact environment-variable names and deployment steps, using placeholders for all secrets.
   7. UK-relevant checks for currency, VAT display, receipts, refunds, privacy notices and data minimisation, without giving legal advice.
   8. A test plan covering successful payments, declined payments, cancelled checkout, duplicate webhook delivery, delayed webhook delivery, refunds and interrupted customer sessions.
   9. A list of assumptions, risks and anything that must be checked by a qualified web developer before going live.
   
   Do not invent details about my website or Stripe account. If a required detail is missing, ask focused questions before writing code. This is not professional advice; a serious payment or data-protection issue needs a qualified web developer and solicitor.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.