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Payments are not entitlements

When you build a SaaS, you wire Stripe and think plans are done. Then the first paid feature ships and you need to answer, on every request: may this user do this right now? That question is not payments. It is entitlements.

  • Payments and entitlements are two separate layers in SaaS applications.
  • Stripe handles payments but not entitlements like AI credits usage.
  • Building entitlements requires a custom ledger of balances for each user and feature.

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