## 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

<Steps>
  <Step title="1) API and webhooks">Verify retries, timeouts, and deduplication by `event.id`.</Step>
  <Step title="2) Financial flow">Run end-to-end checkout and validate reconciliation in the dashboard.</Step>
  <Step title="3) Fiscal">Validate document issuance and recovery with no critical pending items.</Step>
  <Step title="4) Operations">Test checkout failure and webhook backlog runbooks.</Step>
  <Step title="5) Communication">Define incident owner, communication channel, and update SLA.</Step>
</Steps>

## 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.

<Warning title="Practical rule">Do not schedule go-live near external maintenance windows or known high-traffic periods without active on-call coverage.</Warning>