# How do I get alerted when Stripe payments fail in my app?

> Report errors from your checkout code and treat payment failures as an outage. Pagerless does this by default: failing Stripe calls are tagged automatically by the Node SDK, and 3 or more payment errors that are at least 2% of payment requests always wake someone with a push, then a call.

URL: https://pagerless.dev/answers/alert-when-stripe-payments-fail
Updated: 2026-10-22

No SDK? Point a [Stripe webhook](https://pagerless.dev/integrations/stripe) at Pagerless instead: several failed payments within 5 minutes wake someone. Details: [payments down alerts](https://pagerless.dev/solutions/payments-down-alerts).

## Questions

### How do I get alerted when Stripe payments fail in my app?

Report errors from your checkout code and treat payment failures as an outage. Pagerless does this by default: failing Stripe calls are tagged automatically by the Node SDK, and 3 or more payment errors that are at least 2% of payment requests always wake someone with a push, then a call.