Latest client over the line: tradingscript.ai. They needed to start taking card payments from the site this week, not next quarter. We wired in Stripe payment links the same afternoon and they were taking real money before close of business.
No custom checkout, no Shopify retrofit, no WooCommerce plugin tower. Just hosted Stripe payment links behind plain buttons on the existing Next.js site.
Why payment links instead of a full checkout
When a client already has a working site and just needs to charge for a handful of products or tiers, building a custom checkout is the wrong tool. Stripe payment links are a hosted URL — Stripe owns the card form, the 3DS challenge, the receipt email, the refund flow. The client's site owns nothing sensitive. PCI scope drops to effectively zero because no card data ever touches their server.
For tradingscript.ai that meant a one-day turnaround on something that would have been a two-week build with a traditional cart. The trade-off is you give up some checkout customisation — but for a few SKUs with fixed pricing, nobody cares.
How it went in
Each offering on the site got a payment link generated in the Stripe dashboard with AUD pricing, GST handled at the Stripe end, and a success URL pointing back to a thank-you route on the site. The existing CTA buttons swapped their href to the Stripe URL. That's the whole integration.
Webhooks point at a small handler that logs successful payments and fires the fulfilment email. No database changes, no auth changes, no new dependencies in the bundle.
What this replaces
The client had been quoted around four thousand dollars by another agency for a "proper" checkout build with a custom cart, account system, and admin panel they didn't need. They don't sell a hundred SKUs — they sell a small number of well-defined products to a customer who already knows what they want.
Payment links cost them the standard Stripe fee per transaction and nothing else. No monthly platform tax, no plugin renewals, no "premium gateway" upsell.
When we wouldn't do it this way
If a client has dozens of SKUs, inventory to track, or returning customers who expect a saved-cards experience, payment links stop being the right answer and a real checkout starts to earn its keep. For the long tail of Sydney small businesses we work with — consultancies, trades, single-product launches — payment links handle it cleanly and the build pays for itself on the first sale.
What the client said
We recently worked with Pinchy Inc to integrate Stripe payments into TradingScript.ai, and the experience was excellent throughout. They made what could have been a complicated setup feel straightforward and efficient, handling subscriptions, checkout flows, and payment integration with a high level of professionalism.
Communication was fast, the implementation was clean, and everything was delivered in a way that felt tailored to our platform rather than a generic solution. We'd confidently recommend Pinchy Inc to any business needing modern payment integration or custom web development work.
— TradingScript.ai
— Todd, Sydney