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Getting started with Clerk Billing

In this episode of Stripe Developer Office Hours, Braden Sidoti, CTO and co-founder of Clerk, shares how to build a complete Stripe Billing experience without:

  • Webhooks
  • Custom UIs
  • Stripe session juggling

Instead of abstracting Stripe Billing, Clerk connects directly to your Stripe account—letting Stripe handle payments, while Clerk handles:

✅ Prebuilt billing UIs
✅ Session-aware entitlement logic
✅ Identity-tied subscriptions and upgrades

🧠 What You’ll Learn

  • How to implement subscription + usage-based pricing
  • How to support org-level billing and role-based access
  • How to give users a secure self-service portal with zero custom code
  • Why auth + billing belong in the same layer of your stack

If you’re building a SaaS app and want to ship payments faster without duct tape, this is the blueprint you’ve been looking for. All of it works out-of-the-box with Next.js, React, or any modern frontend.

Clerk Billing works in every country supported by Stripe and syncs directly with your existing Clerk application.

🚀 Try Clerk Billing today!

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