Setup-aware checkout
Direct checkout stays disabled until prices, tax posture, portal settings, webhooks, entitlements, and setup gating are proven.
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AI Team uses Stripe for payment, but payment only starts setup. Go-live still depends on access, approvals, cost controls, QA, and operator signoff.
Direct checkout stays disabled until prices, tax posture, portal settings, webhooks, entitlements, and setup gating are proven.
Stripe payment events are verified, stored once, mirrored into AI Team records, and replayable by protected operators when something needs review.
Subscription changes update organization-level entitlement records so dashboards and go-live checks do not rely on browser-side billing claims.
Third-party usage does not become billable until cost policy, spend cap, stop rule, operator review, and invoice-ready state are confirmed.
Launch blockers
The Stripe readiness contract is broader than accepting a card. It covers the revenue, entitlement, pass-through, and service-control path.
11 launch-blocking billing areas
Payment path
Billing events need to become organization-scoped purchase, subscription, invoice, entitlement, and operator-review records without exposing private billing internals publicly.
Billing records
Stripe records payment truth. AI Team mirrors only the operational state needed for setup, dashboards, entitlements, invoices, pass-through usage, and incident review.
Setup-aware public checkout handoff and Agent pricing context.
Organization-scoped customer mirror for dashboard and portal routing.
Subscription mirror for lifecycle state and entitlement sync.
Invoice mirror for dashboard visibility and payment state review.
Service-role-only Stripe webhook event ledger.
Organization-scoped entitlement state derived from Stripe subscription events.
Operator-created pass-through usage reconciliation batches.
Operator-reviewed provider usage charges before invoice-ready state.
Related controls
Checkout and subscription state matter because they determine when service can start, pause, change, or recover.
FAQ
These answers make clear what payment starts and what it does not authorize.
No. Payment starts the commercial setup path. Every Agent still needs scope confirmation, access review, approval rules, pass-through cost policy, deployment QA, and AI Team go-live approval.
AI Team sells managed Agents, not unsupervised software seats. Direct checkout should only be enabled after Stripe products, prices, webhook signing, entitlements, tax posture, portal settings, and setup gating are production-proven.
Stripe invoice and subscription events mirror payment state into AI Team. Failed-payment follow-up, suspension, cancellation, and recovery rules must be defined before production billing goes live.
Not without approval. Pass-through usage requires approved provider category, billing owner, cap, warning threshold, stop rule, and operator reconciliation before invoice-ready state.