--- title: Top Payments & Billing Skills slug: payments-billing type: primary-category canonical: https://top-agent-skills.com/top-skills-for-payments-billing skills: 11 rubric: 1.0 updated: 2026-09-02 --- # Top Payments & Billing Skills **stripe-best-practices** is the top-ranked payments Skill at 59/100: Stripe's own integration playbook: pick the right API, set up Connect and billing, and handle keys and webhooks securely. Checkout, subscription billing, webhooks, invoicing, refunds, tax and dunning across Stripe, Paddle, and Lemon Squeezy. 11 Skills indexed, ranked by a published composite score (https://top-agent-skills.com/about/methodology). Content last changed 2026-09-02. ## The ranking ### 1. stripe-best-practices — score 59/100 (verified-org) Stripe's own integration playbook: pick the right API, set up Connect and billing, and handle keys and webhooks securely. - Best for: Building, modifying, or reviewing any Stripe integration — payments, marketplaces, subscriptions, secure key management. - Not ideal for: Non-Stripe payment processors (Adyen, Braintree, PayPal) — the rules are Stripe-specific. - Publisher: Stripe · MIT - Verified on: claude-code, cursor, gemini-cli ```bash /plugin marketplace add stripe/ai ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-best-practices (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-best-practices.md) ### 2. stripe-projects — score 59/100 (verified-org) Provision a Postgres, Redis, auth, or LLM provider through the Stripe Projects catalog rather than signing up by hand. - Best for: Letting an agent provision and wire up cloud services (DB, cache, auth, email, model providers) with credentials returned inline. - Not ideal for: Teams that must provision through their own IaC (Terraform, Pulumi) or a locked-down cloud account. - Publisher: Stripe · MIT - Verified on: claude-code, cursor, gemini-cli ```bash /plugin marketplace add stripe/ai ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-projects (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-projects.md) ### 3. connect-recommend — score 58/100 (verified-org) The marketplace architecture decision, made with a compatibility matrix that blocks invalid Connect configurations instead of describing them. - Best for: Choosing a Stripe Connect charge pattern and account type before you build — the decision that is expensive to reverse once money is flowing. - Not ideal for: Writing the integration. This produces a recommendation document; stripe-payments is the implementation skill once the design is settled. - Publisher: Stripe · MIT - Verified on: claude-code ```bash npx skills add stripe/ai --skill connect-recommend ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-connect-recommend (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-connect-recommend.md) ### 4. upgrade-stripe — score 57/100 (verified-org) Stripe's version-upgrade guide: move API versions and SDKs without breaking your integration. - Best for: Migrating a Stripe integration to a newer API version or SDK with a clear backward-compatibility map. - Not ideal for: Greenfield integrations with no existing Stripe version to upgrade from — start with stripe-best-practices. - Publisher: Stripe · MIT - Verified on: claude-code, cursor, gemini-cli ```bash /plugin marketplace add stripe/ai ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/upgrade-stripe (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/upgrade-stripe.md) ### 5. stripe-directory — score 57/100 (verified-org) Find vendors and partners for a job-to-be-done — and, where supported, let the agent purchase and consume the service. - Best for: Discovering software, service providers, or partners for a vertical or workflow, with optional agent-initiated purchase. - Not ideal for: Internal vendor catalogs or procurement that must route through an approved supplier list. - Publisher: Stripe · MIT - Verified on: claude-code, cursor, gemini-cli ```bash /plugin marketplace add stripe/ai ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-directory (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-directory.md) ### 6. create-payment-credential — score 57/100 (verified-org) Stripe's answer to agentic checkout: one-time payment credentials so an agent can buy without ever seeing the underlying card. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-link-checkout (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-link-checkout.md) ### 7. dodo-payments-skills — score 54/100 (verified-org) The deepest MoR skill coverage after Stripe: 17 skills from checkout to go-live. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/dodo-payments-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/dodo-payments-skills.md) ### 8. paddle-agent-skills — score 53/100 (verified-org) Paddle's own integration playbook: ten skills for Checkout, webhooks, pricing pages, and subscription lifecycle on the merchant-of-record platform. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/paddle-agent-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/paddle-agent-skills.md) ### 9. norman-finance — score 49/100 (verified-org) The ledger, not the checkout: categorise, reconcile, invoice, file. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/norman-finance (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/norman-finance.md) ### 10. paypal-ai-toolkit — score 47/100 (verified-org) The largest payment processor, first-party: checkout to disputes to payouts. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/paypal-ai-toolkit (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/paypal-ai-toolkit.md) ### 11. lemonsqueezy-claude-skills — score 36/100 (community) Operate a Lemon Squeezy store from the agent: customer lookup, refunds, discount codes, receipts, and a sales dashboard — six support-and-revops skills. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/lemonsqueezy-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/lemonsqueezy-skills.md) ## About this category The best payments-and-billing Skills are provider-authored: Stripe's own playbook (stripe-best-practices, upgrade-stripe) for the PSP model where you own tax and compliance, and Paddle's official ten-skill set (paddle-agent-skills) for the merchant-of-record model where Paddle handles payments, tax, and compliance for you. Choose by billing model first — PSP (Stripe) when you want maximum control and already handle sales tax, merchant-of-record (Paddle, Lemon Squeezy) when you want the platform to own tax and chargebacks. This is the part of the codebase where bugs become refund tickets fast. The category covers checkout-flow setup, webhook verification and idempotency, subscription create/update/cancel/sync, customer-portal sessions, country-localized pricing pages, invoicing, refunds, dunning, and tax compliance. Common workflows: standing up Checkout for a new pricing tier, writing webhook handlers that never double-fulfill on a retry, building a self-serve portal for plan changes, handling failed-payment retries, and for live stores, operating support tasks like refunds and discount codes (the Lemon Squeezy skills focus here). Several pair with Stripe, Paddle, or Lemon Squeezy MCP servers for live customer and subscription state. Full-stack developers shipping SaaS products, founders, and growth engineers use these Skills heavily. Composite scoring weights provenance (provider-authored Skills — Stripe, Paddle — sit at the top), install count, and how rigorously the Skill handles the edge cases that produce real customer pain: webhook idempotency, race conditions on subscription updates, and refund accounting. ## Common questions **Stripe, Paddle, or Lemon Squeezy — which Skill should I use?** Decide by billing model. Stripe is a payment service provider: you keep maximum control and you are responsible for sales tax and chargebacks — use the Stripe Skills (stripe-best-practices). Paddle and Lemon Squeezy are merchants of record: they collect, remit tax, and own chargebacks for you. Use Paddle's official paddle-agent-skills for a full Paddle Billing integration (catalog, Checkout, webhooks, subscription lifecycle), and the Lemon Squeezy skills for operating an existing store (refunds, discount codes, support lookups). **What does the Stripe Skill do for checkout?** It generates a working Checkout Session setup — pricing model, customer creation, success/cancel URLs, metadata for your internal records — and writes the webhook handler that completes the order on payment success. **How do they handle webhook idempotency?** The top Skills enforce checking event IDs against a processed set, with database-level uniqueness, so a webhook retry never double-charges or double-fulfills. **Are subscription state machines handled?** Yes — handling active, past_due, canceled, paused and trialing states; converting between them; and writing the matching access-control logic. **Do these Skills handle tax?** They configure Stripe Tax or Avalara; tax rates and compliance are upstream and depend on jurisdiction. The Skill cannot replace a tax accountant. **Can these Skills test billing flows?** Yes — they author tests against Stripe's test mode and use the Stripe CLI to replay webhook events for state-machine testing. --- _Top Agent Skills. Machine-readable twin of https://top-agent-skills.com/top-skills-for-payments-billing._ _JSON: https://top-agent-skills.com/top-skills-for-payments-billing.json · whole catalog: https://top-agent-skills.com/skills.json (CC BY 4.0)_