5 posts tagged with "Stripe"

Build a fully functional e-commerce app for iOS and Android in minutes using our premium React Native e-commerce template. This guide walks through setup, Firebase integration, Stripe payments, and publishing to app stores.

Any business that is developing an e-commerce application will certainly consider Stripe when it comes to processing payments. Stripe provides an awesome library that instantly enables users to use their mobile phones for online payments. Stripe SDK has increased in popularity tremendously in the last 5 years, and it represents our preferred payment processor in our app templates. Integrating Stripe Firebase in iOS is extremely powerful, but quite challenging, which is the reason why we have written this tutorial.

Apple Pay and Google Pay can make mobile checkout faster, especially for commerce, marketplace, restaurant, delivery, booking, and service apps. Old React Native tutorials often mention Android Pay or abandoned Payment Request wrappers. For current production work, use the maintained payment SDK for your provider and keep privileged payment logic on your backend.

This guide focuses on Stripe's React Native SDK because it supports PaymentSheet and platform wallets through the same production payment flow.

React Native payment integrations have changed a lot since early checkout packages wrapped a few native payment APIs. For production apps today, Stripe's React Native SDK and PaymentSheet are the safer default for card payments, Apple Pay, Google Pay, saved payment methods, and multi-method checkout.

The mobile app should never own payment secrets. It presents checkout, receives client-safe values, and shows status. A secure backend creates PaymentIntents, validates amounts, handles webhooks, and finalizes orders.

Accepting payments in your mobile app could be one of the core features your project supports, especially if you're selling physical products or services that are provided outside the app. For instance, any shopping app (e-commerce app) needs to have at least one way of accepting payments, within the app, so that users can buy products, directly with their phone and credit cards, and without too much overhead and friction.