Go-live checklist

Goal

Move to production with controlled risk and measurable acceptance criteria for technology, operations, and compliance.

Required prerequisites

• Stripe Connect active for the target organization.
• Webhooks with signature validation and idempotency.
• Health and backlog alerts enabled.
• Roles and permissions reviewed by owner/admin.

Decision checklist

1. 11) API and webhooks

   Verify retries, timeouts, and deduplication by event.id.

2. 22) Financial flow

   Run end-to-end checkout and validate reconciliation in the dashboard.

3. 33) Fiscal

   Validate document issuance and recovery with no critical pending items.

4. 44) Operations

   Test checkout failure and webhook backlog runbooks.

5. 55) Communication

   Define incident owner, communication channel, and update SLA.

Acceptance criteria

• Checkout success rate is stable within expected baseline.
• Webhook processing latency remains within target objective.
• No open critical failures in billing, fiscal, or observability.