When paying the application charges the card and then sends a payment
record to the database after, in a situation where something goes wrong
between those two steps, we could potentially end up where a users card
was charged but no record on what is was charged for. The fix is to
re-order ConvertCart to write a pending order record before calling
Stripe, this way a DB record always exists if anything fails
mid-operation. This implementation uses an idempotency key keyed to the
order ID to prevent double-charges on retry. Wraps the post-charge DB
updates in a transaction so marking paid andd clearing the cart are
atomic. Adds OrderStatusFailed and a CRITICAL log for the unrecoverable
case. Includes a checkout flow doc with test cards and reconcilation
steps.
marcusDenslow
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