Payment Security Clerk Billing Stripe

This is the smart way to handle payments without touching card data or dealing with PCI-DSS compliance, which costs $50k–$200k annually and trips up 84% of small companies on their first audit. It walks you through Clerk Billing plus Stripe integration with concrete examples: pricing tables, subscription gating with the Protect component, webhook handlers with Svix signature verification, and checking plan status in both server and client components. The architecture is clean because Stripe handles all card data, Clerk manages the subscription state, and your app just reads status flags. If you need to gate features behind payment or set up subscriptions without becoming liable for card breaches, this covers the implementation end to end.