Welcome to syntax. Today, we're going to talk about accepting money on the internet. You're building an app and you need to start accepting money from people. What are your options? How do you even approach this type of thing? We are going to break it on down. I rewrote my whole checkout flow, maybe about six months ago. I was on Stripe. I still use Stripe, but how things are done were fairly different.

So I thought, like, let's break it down into all the different parts and all of your different

options as well, right? Because on one end, you can build something totally custom.

And then on the other end, you can just sign up for a service and

have them do everything. And you probably want to choose something somewhere in between,

depending on what you're doing. So my name is Wes Boss, developer from Canada. With me, as always,

is Scott Tolensky. How are you doing, Scott? Hey, I'm doing good. And let me tell you, Wes, one of the best parts about working at Century is that I no longer

have to deal with accepting money on the internet because I just, I had to do this for so many

years with Stripe, PayPal, all these things.

And in the past, it was never like super a lot of fun.

Braintree was a disaster.

And that's whatever.

No.

One, I like money.

Hey, I like accepting money.

And I like having money.

So like, therefore, it's something that you have to do in development.

If you are, you know,

having a SaaS or product or an app of any kind that you want to restrict

access to, or if you want to keep it running because, hey, your services cost money.

And if you're the type of person who uses a lot of services to build your app, your app's going to

cost even more money.

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