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Billing and payments cron jobs
Stripe and Lemon Squeezy ship rich webhook eventing, no scheduler. The spokes here are the recurring billing work: reconciliations, retries, payroll, dunning runs.
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Billing & payments
Billing platforms ship excellent webhook eventing for reactive work (an invoice was paid, a subscription renewed, a charge failed). They do not ship a scheduler for proactive work. The recurring patterns (daily Stripe Balance reconciliation against your DB, end-of-month invoice generation, dunning retries for failed charges in a specific timezone, multi-tenant payroll runs on each tenant's pay schedule) all need an external clock.
These spokes are the integration patterns. Crontap calls a private endpoint that holds your Stripe API key (or Lemon Squeezy API key), runs the reconciliation or dunning logic, then writes back to the database. Per-schedule timezones make 'last day of the month at 23:00 in the merchant's timezone' trivially expressible. Retries handle transient API hiccups. Failure alerts route to the finance ops channel separately from the engineering on-call channel.
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- Stripe has its own scheduled invoicing. Why use Crontap?
- Stripe's scheduled invoices schedule one invoice. They do not schedule the operational work around invoicing (the reconciliation against your books, the dunning runs that retry failed charges with backoff, the report that lands in Slack at 9am on the 1st). That operational layer is what Crontap drives.
- Where do API keys for Stripe live in this pattern?
- Inside your application, never on the schedule. Crontap hits an endpoint on your service; the endpoint reads the Stripe key from your environment and makes the API call. The schedule's request to your endpoint can carry a shared-secret header so only Crontap can fire it.
- Multi-tenant SaaS with per-tenant pay days. Realistic with Crontap?
- Yes. The multi-tenant payroll spoke covers exactly this. One schedule per tenant cohort (or even per tenant), each in the tenant's own IANA timezone. Crontap dashboards filter by label so the finance team sees only billing schedules.
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