Payments - full curriculum
How money actually moves, and what has to be true in your own database before you are entitled to call an order paid.
- 01
How Money Actually Moves
Separate the four different events that 'the payment went through' collapses into one, and learn who in the chain is entitled to say no.
- 02
Becoming a Merchant & Choosing the Stack
Answer 'which provider' only after answering what kind of money flow this is, where it starts, where it lands, and who is legally selling.
- 03
Checkout & the First Payment
Take one real payment, and know exactly which parts of it an attacker controls.
- 04
Money in Your Database
The module this subject is actually about: what has to be true in your own tables before you are entitled to call an order paid.
- 05
Subscriptions, Usage & Recurring Money
Money that arrives again without anyone clicking anything, on two rails that authorise it in completely different ways.
- 06
Failure, Fraud & Disputes
The declines that were recoverable and you lost anyway, and the money that gets taken back after you have already delivered.
- 07
Platforms, Payouts & the Agentic Money Path
Money that passes through you on its way to somebody else, and money spent by something that is not a person.
