How to Integrate Stripe Payments Without a Backend

If your product is a static site (no backend), you can still accept Stripe payments. The trick is Stripe Payment Links.

What Stripe Payment Links are

A URL like https://buy.stripe.com/cN2bJj... that opens Stripe Checkout with a pre-configured product, price, and success/cancel URLs. You generate them in the Stripe dashboard, paste them into your HTML, done.

Step 1: Create a product

Stripe dashboard → Products → Add product. Set name, price, recurring (yes/no).

Step 2: Generate a Payment Link

Click product → "Create payment link" → configure: - Quantity adjustment? Y/N - Custom fields? (Email, phone, custom Q) - Success URL: https://yourdomain.com/thank-you.html

Click "Create". Copy the URL.

Step 3: Use it

<a href="https://buy.stripe.com/cN2bJj...">Buy now — $19</a>

That's it. Click → opens Stripe-hosted checkout → on success → redirected to your thank-you page.

What you give up (vs full integration)

• Dynamic pricing (each product needs its own Link)
• Pre-filled email from your auth (no client-side context)
• One-step UX (it's a redirect, not embedded)

When Payment Links are enough

• Single-product sales
• Donations
• Boost tiers / fixed-price subscriptions
• E-books, courses, templates
• Newsletter paid tiers

We use Stripe Payment Links for our Boost tiers on Nexora — works perfectly, zero backend code.

When you need a backend (Edge Function)

• Dynamic cart with variable line items
• Discount codes from your own DB
• Buyer's address required for international tax
• Subscription with custom seat counts

For those, a Supabase Edge Function or Vercel API route is 30 lines of code.

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