Stripe payment succeeded… but the user has no access? This is one of the most common issues when integrating Stripe in a SaaS. The payment succeeds — but the user can’t access the product. At first, it looks like a bug. It’s not. Why this happens Stripe handles payments. It does NOT handle your application logic. So even if a payment is successful, your backend still needs to: update the user state grant access sync everything correctly If this doesn’t happen, you get a mismatch between payment and access. The most common mistake: relying on redirects Many developers grant access after the success page (redirect). This is unreliable because: users can close the page the request may never reach your backend your system may stay out of sync Proper Stripe webhook handling (Node.js example) app . post ( ' /webhook/stripe ' , express . raw ({ type : ' application/json ' }), ( req , res ) => { const sig = req . headers [ ' stripe-signature ' ]; let event ; try { event = stripe . webhooks .…