With stripe Checkout, how do I keep track of the payment status

Question

In the stripe documentation, it says:

So in this case, the checkout page goes to the success or failed page on my frontend.

I use the backend to track the payment status so that we can monitor the transactions in the admin portal, and the above approach seems dangerous to me.

When checkout is successful, it redirects the window to the success url. This means I have to call the backend API in the success page to update the payment status. However, the stripe is the source of truth about the payment status, and the status update on DB should come from Stripe, not come from a frontend page. At the very minimum, if a user refreshes the success page, it would have called the API again and again which is bad. Also, it is about "a user says I paid successfully" v.s. "Stripe says they paid successfully".

I tried the Stripe webhooks, but in the webhook data object, there is no information that I can use to link it to the sessionId that is generated from creating the checkout session, but the session id is the only tracking id I can get from Stripe about a payment.

What's the best practice, if Checkout is the only solution, to securely update my database?

Answer 1

You can get Stripe Payment status or session Details by session_id on asp.net core || .Net 5

var service = new SessionService();
Session session = service.Get(yourSessionId);


// You can track :-
session.Id;
session.PaymentStatus; // Paid or Unpaid
session.Status;
session.Mode;
//And more