---
title: Implement payment gateway integration
status: draft
labels:
  - feature
  - payments
  - backend
assignees:
  - developer3
milestone: v1.1
project: Development Roadmap
---

# Payment Gateway Integration

## Overview

We need to integrate with a payment gateway to handle subscription and one-time payments.

## Requirements

- Support for credit card payments
- Subscription management
- Invoicing
- Webhooks for payment events
- Handling failed payments and retries

## Options to Evaluate

- [ ] Stripe
- [ ] PayPal
- [ ] Braintree
- [ ] Square

## Notes

This issue is currently in draft because we need to:
1. Finalize which payment provider to use
2. Determine pricing tiers
3. Get legal approval for terms of service

## Tasks (Preliminary)

- [ ] Research payment gateways and their fees
- [ ] Create comparison matrix of features
- [ ] Discuss with legal team about compliance requirements
- [ ] Draft initial integration architecture
- [ ] Create test accounts with potential providers

## Questions to Answer

- What are our transaction volume estimates?
- Do we need international payment support?
- What currencies do we need to support?
- Are there specific compliance requirements (PCI-DSS)?