What if Stripe could work the way your business does

Summary

Stripe’s default financial infrastructure covers common payment, subscription, invoicing, and money-movement needs, but businesses may require custom rules, data models, or operational views. Rather than placing every customization behind webhooks and a separately managed server, Stripe extensibility moves logic, data, and user interface capabilities into Stripe through Scripts, Workflows, Custom Objects, and UI extensions. Scripts handle individual decisions such as TypeScript-based proration, while Workflows orchestrate event-driven or manually initiated sequences involving Stripe APIs, third-party integrations, and custom actions. Custom Objects add typed fields, validation, and relationships for concepts such as Rocket Rides’ Vehicles and Rentals, and UI extensions expose that information and business actions in the Dashboard. In the example, an End Rental action updates status, triggers inspection, and marks a vehicle available, connecting the three dimensions without requiring a separate operational system.

Takeaways

1. 1

   Scripts are suited to singular decisions: Stripe invokes TypeScript code, receives an answer, and continues processing, as with a custom proration rule.

2. 2

   Custom Objects provide typed fields, validation rules, and relationships, unlike metadata; a Rental can reference both a Vehicle custom object and Stripe’s native Customer object.

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   A Dashboard action can update a Rental, trigger an inspection workflow, and mark its Vehicle available, linking custom data, logic, and interface in one operation.