How to Integrate Stripe with Metadata Using BuildShip — No Code Required

Struggling to integrate Stripe payments into your app?
Wondering how to create a checkout session, pass metadata, and handle webhooks—without touching a single line of code?

You’re not alone. Stripe is powerful, but it can be overwhelming when you're trying to move fast with low-code tools, AI workflows, and agent-powered automation.

That’s exactly why we created this tutorial—for the no-code, low-code, and AI workflow builder community. Using BuildShip, you can set up a complete Stripe Checkout workflow in minutes. No backend headaches. No server setup. Just fast shipping.

What You’ll Learn in This Tutorial

• How to use BuildShip’s pre-built Stripe Checkout with Metadata template

• How to pass custom metadata like user_id, product_type, or internal_tracking_ids

• How to auto-deploy a Stripe webhook using a simple drag-and-drop workflow

• How to test your checkout using Stripe test cards and view real-time logs

• Best of all: how to do it all without writing a single line of code

Step 1: Start from the Stripe Template in BuildShip

Head over to the Templates Library inside BuildShip and search for:

"Stripe Checkout with Metadata"

This creates two ready-to-use workflows:

1. Create Checkout with Metadata

2. Stripe Webhook Listener

Let’s dive into configuring them.

Step 2: Set Up the Checkout Workflow

The star of this workflow is the "Create Payment Session" node.

Here’s what you need to do:

Add Your Stripe Secret Key

Get your Stripe secret key from the Stripe Dashboard → Developers → API Keys (in Test Mode).
Back in BuildShip, paste it into your workflow config.

Add Line Items

Each item needs:

{
  "price": "your_stripe_price_id",
  "quantity": 1
}

To get the price ID, go to:

Stripe Dashboard → Products → Add Product → One-time Price

Create your product (e.g., “Test BuildShip Pack”), and copy the generated price ID.

Add Metadata

This is where the magic happens. Add key-value pairs like:

{
  "user_id": "1234",
  "credit_pack": "starter"
}

This metadata will travel through the checkout session and be retrievable via the webhook later.

Step 3: Test Your Checkout Session

Open the test panel in BuildShip and run your workflow.
You’ll get a Stripe Checkout URL.

Paste that into your browser—you’ll see Stripe’s familiar checkout form.
Use any Stripe test card, like:

Complete the checkout, and you’ll be redirected to the success URL you defined.

But we’re not done yet...

Step 4: Deploy Your Stripe Webhook in BuildShip

Go to the second workflow: Stripe Webhook Listener.

This uses BuildShip’s native Stripe Webhook Trigger Node, which:

• Automatically creates the webhook for you in Stripe

• Lets you choose which Stripe events to listen for (like checkout.session.completed)

💡 Pro Tip: You can add more event types or custom ones too.

Once connected, deploy the workflow. That’s it—your webhook is now live.

Step 5: Access Metadata from the Stripe Event

After the customer completes checkout, the webhook will fire.

Open the logs for your webhook workflow → expand the "Get Event Metadata" node.

Voilà 🎉 — you’ll see:

{
  "user_id": "1234",
  "credit_pack": "starter"
}

Now you can use this metadata to update your database, assign roles, trigger AI agents, send Slack alerts—you name it.

Why Low-Code Stripe Integration Matters

In the world of AI agents, automation, and low-code platforms, developers and makers are looking to ship fast without compromising on power.

BuildShip makes it ridiculously easy to:

• Set up payment flows in under 10 minutes

• Pass any contextual metadata across systems

• Trigger follow-up actions with zero code

• Empower AI workflows to react to payments in real-time

For a full video tutorial, click below:

Final Thoughts: Build, Test, and Ship Faster

Whether you're building a SaaS app, an AI-powered marketplace, or a custom tool with agents and automations—BuildShip + Stripe gives you the superpower to move at the speed of thought.

• No code

• No server setup

• Just fast, clean, scalable workflows

Build with confidence. Build with metadata. Build with BuildShip.