“I deployed it on November 6, 2021, the same day that Stripe stopped billing a significant number of my customers, left all their invoices in a Draft state, and didn’t tell me about it.”
He turned on Stripe Tax to charge British Columbia sales tax. Stripe quietly parked hundreds of recurring invoices as drafts for almost three months. No email, no dashboard warning, no failed API call. A customer found it before Stripe did. Your payment processor is the one vendor that should notice when the money stops.