Improving Developers Experience at Dodo Payments

Ananthu Vasudevan
Product Manager
Aug 25, 2025
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At Dodo Payments, we’ve always believed that a smooth developer experience (DevEx) isn’t just a “nice-to-have”, it’s core to our mission of making payments integration effortless for builders.
Over the past couple of months, we’ve been steadily improving how developers interact with our platform. The result: A more polished, guided integration path. Instead of making engineers weave together raw APIs and SDKs, we now offer framework-specific adaptors and built-in integrations to popular tools.
This means that whether you’re on React, Nuxt, SvelteKit, or using WordPress, Zapier, HubSpot, or any of dozens of apps, you can connect in minutes, without reinventing the wheel. Here’s a look at what we’ve been working on and why it matters.
Framework Adaptors & Checkout Flow: Meeting Developers Where They Are
To solve this, we created framework-native adaptors for the ecosystems you already use. Now, instead of manually coding each step of the payment flow, you can simply install Dodo Payments’ adaptor package and drop in a few components.
For example, our adaptors cover the full checkout flow, link the customer portal into your site, and even wire up webhook endpoints automatically. The common tasks are handled for you:
Checkout flow setup: create and manage payment links or subscriptions with one API call.
Customer portal integration: embed Dodo Payments self-service billing portal in your app without hand-rolling OAuth or IFrames.
Webhook handling: receive and verify payment events out of the box (so you don’t have to write signature checks yourself).
This saves time, reduces boilerplate, and ensures consistency across projects. We’ve also structured these packages cleanly with Rollup + TypeScript, so they’re lightweight, typed, and easy to extend.
The list of adaptors we have right now
Nextjs
Better-Auth
Nuxt
Express
Astro
Sveletkit
Hono
Remix
Tanstack
Fastify
We’ll keep adding to this list over time. By connecting directly with your existing stack, these adaptors eliminate hours of boilerplate coding and research while ensuring consistency across projects. Native integrations can be launched within hours, whereas building custom APIs often takes weeks or even months. With native adaptors, you can move faster and rely on far less custom code.
Better-Auth Adaptor: Auth Meets Payments, Effortlessly
We're particularly proud of our Better‑Auth adaptor, a specialized integration that blends authentication and payments into one smooth, type-safe experience. With this plugin:
Customers are automatically created on sign-up:
when a new user registers in your app, the adaptor immediately creates a corresponding Dodo Payments customer behind the scenes. No extra API calls needed.
Checkout flows are type-safe and map neatly using product slugs:
You can define products by slug like "premium-plan" instead of hardcoded IDs, and Better-Auth ensures the right Dodo product is used at checkout. The TypeScript types help catch mismatches early.
Self‑service portals are embedded directly in the auth flow:
After login, your users can access their billing portal (to update cards, view invoices, etc.) directly in your app with one component.
Built-in webhooks with verification:
Events like payments, refunds, or subscription changes automatically. The plugin even verifies Dodo Payments webhook signatures for you, so you can trust the data
Full TypeScript support ensures end-to-end safety.
From the client code to the server logic, everything is typed. This end-to-end safety means fewer runtime errors and clearer code.
This means onboarding a new user instantly provides customer access, checkout capabilities, and secure event notifications, all in a unified, developer-friendly flow.
External Integrations
We recently launched an extensive array of external integrations across categories like messaging, workflow automation, CRMs, email tools, analytics platforms, and more. Each integration delivers:
Real-time notifications—stay instantly informed about payment events in your tools of choice
Automated workflows—trigger actions automatically, reducing errors and slashing manual effort docs.dodopayments.com.
Better visibility and insights—with data flowing into your operational dashboards, you gain a clearer, unified view of your payment ecosystem
Here's the current lineup (as of August 2025):
External integrations: WooCommerce, Framer, Figma, Raycast
Messaging platforms: Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams
Workflow automation: Zapier, Windmill, Inngest
CRM systems: HubSpot, Close CRM
Email tools: Resend, Loops, SendGrid
Analytics platforms: Segment, Customer.io
These integrations come with streamlined setup instructions and examples, making onboarding a breeze
What This Means for Developers
1. Time Saved, Code Simplified
Instead of building custom integrations for each tool, you can connect to an existing, supported integration in minutes rather than days.
2. Consistency Across Stacks
With official integrations, behavior and documentation are consistent across tools. You can rely on predictable outcomes without fumbling through third-party plugins.
3. End-to-End Visibility
Imagine a sale flows in, the right team is alerted, a CRM is updated, an email confirmation sends, and analytics capture the event, all without writing a line of integration glue code.
4. Scalable and Secure
Each integration was built with reliability in mind, maintained by our team, with secure defaults, robust documentation, and best practices baked in.
Automation and Support AI
Another focus has been automating developer support. We’ve been working on custom AI assistants that:
Ground responses in official documentation
Provide precise code snippets instead of vague answers
Work across support channels like Discord and Intercom
The goal here is consistency: whether a developer asks a question in the docs, on Discord, or via support tickets, they get the same accurate, actionable answer.
Looking Ahead
Improving DevEx isn’t a one-off project, it’s an ongoing investment. Over the coming months, we’re focusing on:
Expanding adaptor coverage to more frameworks
Integrations with much more 3rd party applications(50+ in plan)
At the end of the day, our north star is simple: make it ridiculously easy for developers to build with Dodo Payments.