One Subscription, three payment providers
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Most of our billing code does not know which payment provider charged the card. That is on purpose, and one of our better early decisions.
Fibe takes money through three processors — Stripe, Creem, and Paddle — but the rest of the platform sees exactly one thing: a subscription record and a paid order. The provider name is just a stored string. Everything downstream — minting Mana, provisioning a tutorial Marquee, converting to Sparks, the daily funding sweep that keeps your environment alive — reads from that neutral layer and never branches on "is this Stripe or Paddle." Here's how, and why it earns its keep.