3 posts tagged with "Payments"

Subscriptions look simple in product mockups: show plans, take payment, unlock premium features. In a real React Native app, subscriptions touch StoreKit, Google Play Billing, receipt validation, renewals, refunds, grace periods, intro offers, backend entitlements, app review, and customer support.

Apple Pay and Google Pay can make mobile checkout faster, especially for commerce, marketplace, restaurant, delivery, booking, and service apps. Old React Native tutorials often mention Android Pay or abandoned Payment Request wrappers. For current production work, use the maintained payment SDK for your provider and keep privileged payment logic on your backend.

This guide focuses on Stripe's React Native SDK because it supports PaymentSheet and platform wallets through the same production payment flow.

React Native payment integrations have changed a lot since early checkout packages wrapped a few native payment APIs. For production apps today, Stripe's React Native SDK and PaymentSheet are the safer default for card payments, Apple Pay, Google Pay, saved payment methods, and multi-method checkout.

The mobile app should never own payment secrets. It presents checkout, receives client-safe values, and shows status. A secure backend creates PaymentIntents, validates amounts, handles webhooks, and finalizes orders.