# Guides: the journey from checkout to payout

- Date: 2026-09-17
- Type: New
- Surface: Developer portal and CLI
- What you need to do: Nothing.
- Address: https://developers.rivr.io/changelog/2026-09-17-guides

Nine guides walk a journal system through every use case, step by step: connecting as a platform, receiving webhooks, payment at the clinic and on the phone, what happens when the patient doesn't pay (invoice, credit check, recourse), bookkeeping and settlements, cancel and refund, payment in advance, and the checklist before the first clinic. Each step shows who acts, the call in cURL, Node, Python and C#, the webhook that follows, what the journal should show — and why. A table maps Stripe concepts to their Rivr counterparts.