Generally speaking, no one is getting banned from Stripe for the occasional transaction tested in production, come on. If this was the case, virtually every com

Generally speaking, no one is getting banned from Stripe for the occasional transaction tested in production, come on. If this was the case, virtually every company I've ever worked at would be banned from Stripe. It's reasonable to confirm your system actually works once deployed outside of test environments. No disagreement from me that is what the letter of the Stripe service agreement says, but what happens in reality is clearly different. I take that rule as trying to encourage people to use the very good test environments Stripe offer, or to limit scale of test transactions in production, rather than trying to shutdown a paying user (the company) for trying a legitimate transaction in prod with a legitimate card. I have no idea why you would want to risk the first ever transaction in prod being performed by a real customer - why leave it to chance that it is not setup correctly? I have also been on calls with Stripe support staff where we tried a card transaction in production for testing purposes, FWIW.