Checkout Guardian

Your unit tests mock Stripe. Your customers don't.

Run approved checkout and billing smoke tests against safe staging or test environments. Zerocheck is built to drive these high-value flows; suggested tests stay in review until your team approves them.

Who this is for

Role
Head of Product or payments engineer
Company
E-commerce company or SaaS with Stripe/payment integration
Trigger
Checkout regression causes lost revenue, or customer emails “I tried to buy and couldn’t”

The pain is real

“I deployed a new checkout flow on Friday afternoon at 4:47 PM. After 6 minutes Slack exploded - payment processing broke and customers couldn’t complete purchases. 22 minutes of lost revenue, support tickets flooding in, and pure panic.”

DEV Communitysource

“I tried to buy your product three times. Your site kept failing. I went to your competitor instead.”

Customer quote in Optivem Journalsource

“A customer reported being charged $110 on a $100 order when tax should have been $8, not $10. All tests were green… The E2E test never verified the actual total.”

Optivem Journalsource

Stripe, Apple Pay, Klarna, and PSD2/3DS are all in rapid evolution

Stripe iframe testing is a universal pain - Cypress can’t interact with cross-domain iframes

Knight Capital lost $440 million in 45 minutes from untested code paths

Why this stays unsolved

Payment flows involve third-party services, redirects, and sandboxes that differ from production. V1 should be positioned around approved checkout smoke tests and safe payment-adjacent coverage, not built-in provider automation.

Most teams choose neither - they ship without checkout E2E tests and learn about failures from customer complaints. Checkout testing is still usually treated as a custom project rather than a product workflow.

The workflow today vs. with Zerocheck

Without Zerocheck

Developer updates checkout code. Unit tests pass because the browser flow is not exercised. Merged Friday evening. Monday morning: customers report they cannot complete checkout. Revenue is lost before the team rolls back.

With Zerocheck

Approved checkout smoke test runs on the PR with screenshots, recording, and step trace. A blocking approved failure stops the merge. Production monitoring can also run approved critical checkout checks after a production URL is configured.

How it works

1

Author and approve a safe checkout smoke test for your staging or test environment

2

Approved checkout tests run on PRs with screenshots, recording, and step trace

3

SDK-bump PRs run the approved checkout smoke coverage

4

Production monitoring catches approved journey regressions after deployment

FAQ

Can Zerocheck test real Stripe checkout with 3DS?

V1 does not ship a built-in Stripe or 3DS helper, so you author the payment-field and 3DS steps yourself. Teams run approved browser tests for these flows against safe staging or test payment environments, and suggested tests stay in review until your team approves them.

Why test Stripe beyond mocks?

Mocking is fast but misses real browser behavior. Use approved Zerocheck smoke tests for the safe parts of checkout and keep deeper payment-provider scenarios in customer-authored tests until built-in helpers ship.

Can Zerocheck cover payment-provider flows?

V1 can run approved customer-authored browser tests for these flows against safe staging or test payment environments. It does not ship built-in payment-provider primitives, so you author the payment-field steps yourself; suggested tests stay in review until you approve them.

How do you calculate the revenue math?

Input your daily transaction volume. We calculate the cost per minute of checkout downtime. A typical SaaS processing $50K/day loses $4,167 per 2-hour incident. Catching one regression per quarter pays for Zerocheck many times over.

Your unit tests mock Stripe. Your customers don't.

Guard the only code path where a bug is measured in lost dollars per minute.

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