Stripe Certified Professional Billing Architect
Migrate to Stripe with zero downtime. No drama, no surprises.
I led the migration of Babbel's recurring billing — hundreds of millions in revenue — from Adyen to Stripe with zero downtime. Your migration gets the same playbook.
$100M+
recurring revenue migrated
Zero
downtime
Global
markets & payment methods
The problem
Why billing migrations go wrong
Most teams only ever do one provider migration. The failure modes are predictable — if you've seen them before.
Live subscriptions can't be paused
Your customers renew every hour of every day. A migration that needs a maintenance window is a migration that loses revenue.
Card vaults don't transfer themselves
Re-tokenizing payment methods across providers — cards, PayPal, SEPA mandates — is where most migrations quietly bleed customers.
Nobody can audit what happened
Finance needs to reconcile every cent across two providers. Without verification pipelines, you're migrating on faith.
The playbook
How a zero-downtime migration actually runs
01
Audit & inventory
Every subscription, payment method, billing cycle, and edge case in your current provider — mapped before anything moves.
02
Architecture & dry runs
Stripe Billing flows designed for your model, idempotent migration jobs, and full rehearsals against production data copies.
03
Staged cutover
Cohort-by-cohort migration with verification at every step, rollback paths ready, and customers keeping their billing day and auth.
04
Reconciliation & handoff
Full audit trail proving every cent landed where it should, plus documentation and monitoring your team owns going forward.
Read the full Babbel case study — the largest migration of this playbook to date.
Case studyWhy teams trust me with their revenue
- Stripe Certified Professional Billing Architect — Stripe's highest billing credential, verifiable
- Hundreds of millions in recurring revenue migrated without incident
- Cards, PayPal, SEPA, wallets — every method rebuilt on Stripe rails
- Verification and reconciliation pipelines your finance team can audit
- A senior engineering partner, not an agency chain
They built our entire marketplace from scratch — escrow payments, seller payouts, the whole thing. Three years later, we're still working together and the platform handles thousands of transactions monthly.
Tyler Thompson
CEO, GigSocial
Next step
Get a migration assessment
Tell me your current provider, rough subscription volume, and timeline. I'll reply with an honest read on complexity, risk, and cost — within one business day.