by dodopayments
Dodo Payments — lightweight, serverless-ready API for AI-driven billing, subscriptions, and customer management.
Lets AI assistants interact with the Dodo Payments API for managing billing, subscriptions, and customers through natural language commands.
Dodo Payments is an official MCP server published by dodopayments that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. Dodo Payments — lightweight, serverless-ready API for AI-driven billing, subscriptions, and customer management. It is categorized under developer tools.
You can install Dodo Payments in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server runs locally on your machine via the stdio transport.
Apache-2.0
Dodo Payments is released under the Apache-2.0 license. This is a permissive open-source license, meaning you can freely use, modify, and distribute the software.
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We wired Dodo Payments into a staging workspace; the listing’s GitHub and npm pointers saved time versus hunting across READMEs.
Dodo Payments has been reliable for tool-calling workflows; the MCP profile page is a good permalink for internal docs.
Dodo Payments is a well-scoped MCP server in the explainx.ai directory — install snippets and categories matched our Claude Code setup.
We wired Dodo Payments into a staging workspace; the listing’s GitHub and npm pointers saved time versus hunting across READMEs.
Dodo Payments is a well-scoped MCP server in the explainx.ai directory — install snippets and categories matched our Claude Code setup.
Dodo Payments reduced integration guesswork — categories and install configs on the listing matched the upstream repo.
We wired Dodo Payments into a staging workspace; the listing’s GitHub and npm pointers saved time versus hunting across READMEs.
Dodo Payments reduced integration guesswork — categories and install configs on the listing matched the upstream repo.
Dodo Payments has been reliable for tool-calling workflows; the MCP profile page is a good permalink for internal docs.
I recommend Dodo Payments for teams standardizing on MCP; the explainx.ai page compares cleanly with sibling servers.
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This library provides convenient access to the Dodo Payments REST API from server-side TypeScript or JavaScript.
The REST API documentation can be found on docs.dodopayments.com. The full API of this library can be found in api.md.
It is generated with Stainless.
Use the Dodo Payments MCP Server to enable AI assistants to interact with this API, allowing them to explore endpoints, make test requests, and use documentation to help integrate this SDK into your application.
Note: You may need to set environment variables in your MCP client.
npm install dodopayments
The full API of this library can be found in api.md.
<!-- prettier-ignore -->import DodoPayments from 'dodopayments';
const client = new DodoPayments({
bearerToken: process.env['DODO_PAYMENTS_API_KEY'], // This is the default and can be omitted
environment: 'test_mode', // defaults to 'live_mode'
});
const checkoutSessionResponse = await client.checkoutSessions.create({
product_cart: [{ product_id: 'product_id', quantity: 0 }],
});
console.log(checkoutSessionResponse.session_id);
This library includes TypeScript definitions for all request params and response fields. You may import and use them like so:
<!-- prettier-ignore -->import DodoPayments from 'dodopayments';
const client = new DodoPayments({
bearerToken: process.env['DODO_PAYMENTS_API_KEY'], // This is the default and can be omitted
environment: 'test_mode', // defaults to 'live_mode'
});
const params: DodoPayments.CheckoutSessionCreateParams = {
product_cart: [{ product_id: 'product_id', quantity: 0 }],
};
const checkoutSessionResponse: DodoPayments.CheckoutSessionResponse =
await client.checkoutSessions.create(params);
Documentation for each method, request param, and response field are available in docstrings and will appear on hover in most modern editors.
When the library is unable to connect to the API,
or if the API returns a non-success status code (i.e., 4xx or 5xx response),
a subclass of APIError will be thrown:
const checkoutSessionResponse = await client.checkoutSessions
.create({ product_cart: [{ product_id: 'product_id', quantity: 0 }] })
.catch(async (err) => {
if (err instanceof DodoPayments.APIError) {
console.log(err.status); // 400
console.log(err.name); // BadRequestError
console.log(err.headers); // {server: 'nginx', ...}
} else {
throw err;
}
});
Error codes are as follows:
| Status Code | Error Type |
|---|---|
| 400 | BadRequestError |
| 401 | AuthenticationError |
| 403 | PermissionDeniedError |
| 404 | NotFoundError |
| 422 | UnprocessableEntityError |
| 429 | RateLimitError |
| >=500 | InternalServerError |
| N/A | APIConnectionError |
Certain errors will be automatically retried 2 times by default, with a short exponential backoff. Connection errors (for example, due to a network connectivity problem), 408 Request Timeout, 409 Conflict, 429 Rate Limit, and >=500 Internal errors will all be retried by default.
You can use the maxRetries option to configure or disable this:
// Configure the default for all requests:
const client = new DodoPayments({
maxRetries: 0, // default is 2
});
// Or, configure per-request:
await client.checkoutSessions.create({ product_cart: [{ product_id: 'product_id', quantity: 0 }] }, {
maxRetries: 5,
});
Requests time out after 1 minute by default. You can configure this with a timeout option:
// Configure the default for all requests:
const client = new DodoPayments({
timeout: 20 * 1000, // 20 seconds (default is 1 minute)
});
// Override per-request:
await client.checkoutSessions.create({ product_cart: [{ product_id: 'product_id', quantity: 0 }] }, {
timeout: 5 * 1000,
});
On timeout, an APIConnectionTimeoutError is thrown.
Note that requests which time out will be retried twice by default.
List methods in the DodoPayments API are paginated.
You can use the for await … of syntax to iterate through items across all pages:
async function fetchAllPaymentListResponses(params) {
const allPaymentListResponses = [];
// Automatically fetches more pages as needed.
for await (const paymentListResponse of client.payments.list()) {
allPaymentListResponses.push(paymentListResponse);
}
return allPaymentListResponses;
}
Alternatively, you can request a single page at a time:
let page = await client.payments.list();
for (const paymentListResponse of page.items) {
console.log(paymentListResponse);
}
// Convenience methods are provided for manually paginating:
while (page.hasNextPage()) {
page = await page.getNextPage();
// ...
}
The "raw" Response returned by fetch() can be accessed through the .asResponse() method on the APIPromise type that all methods return.
This method returns as soon as the headers for a successful response are received and does not consume the response body, so you are free to write custom parsing or streaming logic.
You can also use the .withResponse() method to get the raw Response along with the parsed data.
Unlike .asResponse() this method consumes the body, returning once it is parsed.
const client = new DodoPayments();
const response = await client.checkoutSessions
.create({ product_cart: [{ product_id: 'product_id', quantity: 0 }] })
.asResponse();
console.log(response.headers.get('X-My-Header'));
console.log(response.statusText); // access the underlying Response object
const { data: checkoutSessionResponse, response: raw } = await client.checkoutSessions
.create({ product_cart: [{ product_id: 'product_id', quantity: 0 }] })
.withResponse();
console.log(raw.headers.get('X-My-Header'));
console.log(checkoutSessionResponse.session_id);
[!IMPORTANT] All log messages are intended for debugging only. The format and content of log messages may change between releases.
The log level can be configured in two ways:
DODO_PAYMENTS_LOG environment variablelogLevel client option (overrides the environment variable if set)import DodoPayments from 'dodopayments';
const client = new DodoPayments({
logLevel: 'debug', // Show all log messages
});
Available log levels, from most to least verbose:
'debug' - Show debug messages, info, warnings, and errors'info' - Show info messages, warnings, and errors'warn' - Show warnings and errors (default)'error' - Show only errors'off' - Disable all loggingAt the 'debug' level, all HTTP requests and responses are logged, including headers and bodies.
Some authentication-related headers are redacted, but sensitive data in request and response bodies
may still be visible.
By default, this library logs to globalThis.console. You can also provide a custom logger.
Most logging libraries are supported, including pino, winston, bunyan, consola, signale, and @std/log. If your logger doesn't work, please open an issue.
When providing a custom logger, the logLevel option still controls which messages are emitted, messages
below the configured level will not be sent to your logger.
import DodoPayments from 'dodopayments';
import pino from 'pino';
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