/stripe

name: stripe
description: Emulated Stripe API for local development and testing. Use when the user needs to process payments locally, test checkout flows, create customers, manage products and prices, handle payment intents, work with webhooks, or use the Stripe SDK without hitting real Stripe servers. Triggers include "Stripe API", "emulate Stripe", "test payments locally", "checkout flow", "payment intent", "Stripe webhook", "Stripe SDK", "STRIPE_API_KEY", or any task requiring a local Stripe API.
allowed-tools: Bash(npx emulate:*), Bash(curl:*)

Stripe API Emulator

Fully stateful Stripe API emulation. Customers, products, prices, checkout sessions, payment intents, charges, and payment methods persist in memory. Webhooks fire on state changes. The hosted checkout UI lets you complete payments in the browser.

No real payments are processed. Every Stripe SDK call hits the emulator and produces realistic responses.

Start

Local listeners bind to `127.0.0.1` by default. For access from containers or other machines, pass `--host 0.0.0.0` to the CLI or `hostname: '0.0.0.0'` to `createEmulator`. Configure `--base-url` or `baseUrl` for advertised URLs reachable by those clients.

# Stripe only
npx emulate --service stripe

# Default port (when run alone)
# http://localhost:4000

Or programmatically:

import { createEmulator } from 'emulate'

const stripe = await createEmulator({ service: 'stripe', port: 4000 })
// stripe.url === 'http://localhost:4000'

Pointing Your App at the Emulator

Stripe SDK

The Stripe Node.js SDK does not read an environment variable for the base URL. You must pass it when constructing the client:

import Stripe from 'stripe'

const stripe = new Stripe(process.env.STRIPE_SECRET_KEY!, {
  apiVersion: '2024-12-18.acacia',
  host: 'localhost',
  port: 4000,
  protocol: 'http',
})

Embedded in Next.js (adapter-next)

When using `@emulators/adapter-next`, the emulator runs inside your Next.js app at `/emulate/stripe`. The SDK needs to point at `localhost` with a proxy route to forward `/v1/*` calls to `/emulate/stripe/v1/*`:

// next.config.ts
import { withEmulate } from '@emulators/adapter-next'

export default withEmulate({
  env: {
    STRIPE_SECRET_KEY: 'sk_test_emulated',
  },
})

// lib/stripe.ts
import Stripe from 'stripe'

const port = process.env.PORT ?? '3000'

export const stripe = new Stripe(process.env.STRIPE_SECRET_KEY!, {
  apiVersion: '2024-12-18.acacia',
  host: 'localhost',
  port: parseInt(port, 10),
  protocol: 'http',
})

// app/emulate/[...path]/route.ts
import { createEmulateHandler } from '@emulators/adapter-next'
import * as stripe from '@emulators/stripe'

export const { GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE } = createEmulateHandler({
  services: {
    stripe: {
      emulator: stripe,
      seed: {
        products: [
          { id: 'prod_widget', name: 'Widget', description: 'A useful widget' },
        ],
        prices: [
          { id: 'price_widget', product_name: 'Widget', currency: 'usd', unit_amount: 1000 },
        ],
        webhooks: [
          {
            url: `http://localhost:${process.env.PORT ?? '3000'}/api/webhooks/stripe`,
            events: ['*'],
          },
        ],
      },
    },
  },
})

// app/v1/[...path]/route.ts  (proxy for Stripe SDK)
const STRIPE_URL = `http://localhost:${process.env.PORT ?? '3000'}/emulate/stripe`

async function handler(req: Request, ctx: { params: Promise<{ path: string[] }> }) {
  const { path } = await ctx.params
  const url = new URL(req.url)
  const target = `${STRIPE_URL}/v1/${path.join('/')}${url.search}`

  const res = await fetch(target, {
    method: req.method,
    headers: req.headers,
    body: req.body,
    duplex: 'half',
  } as any)

  return new Response(res.body, {
    status: res.status,
    statusText: res.statusText,
    headers: res.headers,
  })
}

export { handler as GET, handler as POST, handler as PUT, handler as PATCH, handler as DELETE }

Direct fetch

curl http://localhost:4000/v1/customers \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_test_emulated"

Seed Config

Seed data is optional. All entities support an optional `id` field for deterministic IDs that survive server restarts.

stripe:
  customers:
    - id: cus_demo
      email: demo@example.com
      name: Demo User
  products:
    - id: prod_tshirt
      name: T-Shirt
      description: A comfortable tee
  prices:
    - id: price_tshirt
      product_name: T-Shirt
      currency: usd
      unit_amount: 2500
  webhooks:
    - url: http://localhost:3000/api/webhooks/stripe
      events: ['*']
      secret: whsec_test

The `product_name` field in prices links to the product by name. Use `events: ['*']` to receive all webhook events, or specify individual event types.

API Endpoints

Customers

# Create customer
curl -X POST http://localhost:4000/v1/customers \
  -d "email=user@example.com" -d "name=Jane Doe"

# Retrieve customer
curl http://localhost:4000/v1/customers/cus_xxx

# Update customer
curl -X POST http://localhost:4000/v1/customers/cus_xxx \
  -d "name=Updated Name"

# Delete customer
curl -X DELETE http://localhost:4000/v1/customers/cus_xxx

# List customers
curl http://localhost:4000/v1/customers

Products

# Create product
curl -X POST http://localhost:4000/v1/products \
  -d "name=Widget" -d "description=A useful widget"

# Retrieve product
curl http://localhost:4000/v1/products/prod_xxx

# List products
curl "http://localhost:4000/v1/products?active=true"

Prices

# Create price
curl -X POST http://localhost:4000/v1/prices \
  -d "product=prod_xxx" -d "currency=usd" -d "unit_amount=1000"

# Retrieve price
curl http://localhost:4000/v1/prices/price_xxx

# List prices
curl "http://localhost:4000/v1/prices?active=true"

Checkout Sessions

# Create checkout session
curl -X POST h