Manera's MANERAbilling flagship runs on Stripe. Every Mesh Tier subscription, every Sovereign Tier annual contract, every overage event from the 80% margin floor governance layer — they all land in your Stripe ledger as first-class objects. No middleware, no proprietary billing engine to learn, no vendor lock-in once you import a customer.
customer.subscription.updated flips Manera's entitlement_gate in under 600 ms/billing flagship page so the buyer never has to context-switch| Layer | Method | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| Auth | Restricted API keys (read-only for analytics, write-scoped for billing) | Per-request |
| Webhooks | Signed via whsec_* secret, verified against stripe.Webhook.construct_event | Real-time |
| Sync | Stripe is the system-of-record for invoices; Manera mirrors entitlement state in entitlement_gate.sqlite | Sub-second on webhook receipt |
| Reconciliation | Nightly cron pulls Charge.list for the prior 24 h, cross-checks against Manera ledger | Daily 02:00 UTC |
The flow is: buyer clicks Start trial on a flagship page → Stripe Checkout → checkout.session.completed webhook → Manera enables flagship access → invoice.payment_succeeded keeps the seat warm month over month.
Q: Do I need a separate Stripe account? No. Manera's Stripe account does the billing on your behalf when you buy through maneratech.com. If you want to embed Manera widgets in your own product (white-label), Stripe Connect lets you take payments under your own account and Manera receives a platform fee.
Q: Which Stripe products power Manera? Subscriptions (recurring), Invoicing (annual contracts + Sovereign Tier), Tax (auto-calculated for Quebec, Canada, EU, UK, AU, NY), Connect (white-label embeds), Customer Portal (self-serve plan changes), Webhooks (entitlement sync).
Q: How is PCI compliance handled? Manera never touches raw card data. All card-present surfaces use Stripe Elements (PCI SAQ-A). Manera's services live behind Stripe's tokenized customer ID — we store cus_*, never PANs.
Q: Can I use my own Stripe account instead of Manera's? Yes via Stripe Connect Standard. Your Stripe dashboard, your payouts, Manera handles only the subscription product wiring. Talk to sales for the white-label workflow.
Q: What happens if a webhook delivery fails? Stripe retries with exponential backoff for 3 days. Manera's /api/stripe-webhook endpoint is idempotent (we de-dupe on event.id) so retries never double-charge or double-entitle. The reconciliation cron at 02:00 UTC catches anything that fell through.
Manera + Stripe is live today. Buy any flagship at /pricing and your first webhook fires within 5 seconds of checkout. For Stripe Connect (white-label embeds), email [email protected].