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The Stripe Connect happy path is well documented. The production gotchas are not. Here are the 12 marketplace failures we've seen up close — KYC freezes, payout holds, refund black holes, webhook idempotency bugs — and how to avoid each one before launch day.
Stripe Billing setup looks easy until you hit dunning, proration, tax, and metered pricing in production. Here is the production-grade setup we ship for SaaS clients — pricing model decisions, webhook handlers, customer-portal trade-offs, and the pre-launch checklist that prevents revenue leakage.
Solid Queue ships as the Rails 8 default. Sidekiq is 12 years of production-hardened tooling. Neither is universally right. Here's the 4-question framework we use to decide, the production numbers nobody publishes, and the migration playbook that actually works.
Shopify's built-in features only go so far. Learn when you need a Shopify expert developer for custom checkout flows, payment integrations, multi-tenant operations, and Shopify API development — with real examples from production projects.
Most platform comparisons run a feature checklist and call it done. We've shipped on Sharetribe, evaluated Yo!Kart for clients, and audited Arcadier builds — here's what the comparison actually looks like from inside those conversations, including the pricing math that changes around $500K GMV.
Most Sharetribe-vs-custom comparisons are biased — written by Sharetribe, by agencies that hate it, or by founders who only tried one path. We've shipped both. Here's the 8-question framework that tells you which path actually fits your marketplace, with real numbers.
The complete technical guide to building native iOS and Android apps for Sharetribe Flex. Flex Marketplace API, Stripe Connect mobile payments, Expo Router, and push notification syncing.
A battle-tested 2026 engineering guide to building a custom Sharetribe Flex marketplace with Stripe Connect Custom accounts, custom booking logic, and split fee payouts.
Sharetribe Flex's three customization tiers — config, template, Integration API — each have a sweet spot and a wall you'll hit. Here are the patterns we've shipped on a vacation rental marketplace, plus the customizations that look easy and turn into 4-month migrations.
Every Sharetribe build hits the same API ceilings — 60-queries-per-minute rate limits, the 50KB extended data cap, the 10,000-row pagination wall, transaction process timeouts. Here are the limits, the exact errors, and the workarounds we use on production marketplaces.
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