One init() call. Provide your secret key, choose api or elements mode, optionally set a timezone, and every module is ready to use.
You choose the flow. In api mode, payment and checkout calls return a hosted Stripe URL you redirect the customer to. In elements mode, they return a clientSecret your own frontend uses to confirm the payment with Stripe Elements. In both mode, you decide per call.
Elements are fully optional. The browser-side helpers ship as a separate JS asset under resources/js/stripekit-elements.js. Stripe Elements is inherently browser code, so it cannot run in PHP; StripeKit ships it as a companion frontend module you serve alongside your PHP backend.
Timezones handled correctly. Every timestamp StripeKit returns is first normalized to UTC (Stripe's native format), then, if you configured a timezone, converted once more into that timezone for display. Both values are always returned so you never have to do the math yourself.
You own your data. StripeKit never requires a database. Pass an optional storage adapter to persist customers, subscriptions, invoices, payments and payment methods in your own schema; without one, StripeKit still works, it just won't persist anything for you.
Covers the whole billing surface. Customers, payment methods, one-off payments, checkout (payment or subscription, with custom fields and coupons), subscriptions, invoices, coupons and promotion codes, and webhooks with automatic state sync.
