Seamless Integrations: Connecting Stripe, Slack, and More with .do Workflows

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses rely on a constellation of specialized SaaS applications. Your payment processing lives in Stripe, your team communication in Slack, your customer data in Salesforce, and your marketing in Hubspot. While each tool is powerful on its own, their true potential is only unlocked when they work together. The challenge? Connecting them is often a complex, brittle, and time-consuming process of writing custom glue code, managing webhooks, and juggling API keys.

What if you could orchestrate these multi-service interactions as a single, coherent, and version-controlled workflow? This is the promise of Business-as-Code, and it's precisely what you can achieve with the .do SDK. By leveraging agentic workflows, you can transform fragmented processes into powerful, automated Services-as-Software.

What is an Agentic Workflow?

Before we dive into integrations, let's clarify the core concept. An agentic workflow, in the context of the .do platform, is a sequence of defined steps that an autonomous "agent" executes to complete a business process.

• The Workflow: This is your business logic, defined as code. It's a clear, ordered list of actions, like validate.email, create.user.profile, and send.welcome.email.
• The Agent: This is the executor. It's a software entity that you empower to run one or more workflows when specific conditions are met.

By defining your processes this way, you're practicing Business-as-Code. Your company's operations become as robust, testable, and scalable as your core application code.

The .do SDK Advantage for API Integrations

Connecting disparate APIs is where the agentic workflow model truly shines. The .do Typescript SDK provides a radically simpler and more robust way to build and manage these connections.

1. From Spaghetti Code to Readable Steps

Instead of a tangled mess of asynchronous calls and callback functions, a .do workflow is a simple, declarative list of steps. This makes the entire integration flow easy to read, understand, and maintain.

2. Practice True Business-as-Code

Your entire integration logic lives in your Git repository. It's version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and deployed as part of your standard CI/CD pipeline. This brings a professional software development lifecycle to what has traditionally been an ad-hoc process.

3. A Unified Typescript Experience

The SDK is designed for developers. If you know Typescript, you have everything you need to start building. Enjoy the benefits of static typing, autocompletion in your favorite IDE, and a rich ecosystem of tools you already use.

4. Develop and Test Locally

One of the biggest hurdles in API development is testing. The .do SDK includes a complete local testing environment and mocking utilities. You can simulate a Stripe webhook, mock the Slack API response, and debug your entire workflow on your machine before a single line is deployed.

Example: A Stripe-to-Slack Sales Notification

Let's build a classic integration: posting a notification to a Slack channel every time a new customer subscribes via Stripe.

Traditionally, this involves:

1. Creating a server and an endpoint to receive a Stripe webhook.
2. Writing code to validate the webhook signature.
3. Parsing the event payload.
4. Making a formatted API call to Slack.
5. Deploying and maintaining this server.

With the .do agentic workflow SDK, the process is dramatically simplified.

Define the Workflow

import { Agent, Workflow } from '@do-sdk/core';

// Define a workflow to handle new Stripe subscriptions
const notifyOnNewSubscription = new Workflow({
  name: 'stripe.subscription.created',
  steps: [
    // Step 1: Use the Stripe event data to get full customer details
    { 
      do: 'stripe.customer.retrieve', 
      input: '{{ trigger.body.data.object.customer }}' 
    },
    // Step 2: Use the retrieved data to post a formatted Slack message
    { 
      do: 'slack.message.post', 
      channel: '#sales-feed', 
      text: '🎉 New Pro Subscription! Customer: {{ steps.0.output.name }} ({{ steps.0.output.email }}) just signed up!' 
    },
  ],
});

// Create an agent to handle Stripe events
const stripeAgent = new Agent({ workflows: [notifyOnNewSubscription] });

// To run locally for testing:
// await stripeAgent.execute('stripe.subscription.created', { body: mockStripeEvent });

How it Works

1. Workflow Definition: We create a workflow named stripe.subscription.created. The name itself is descriptive of its trigger.
2. Passing Data: The output of one step seamlessly becomes the input for the next. We use the customer ID from the initial webhook (trigger.body...) to fetch the full customer object from Stripe.
3. Actionable Steps: We then use the customer's name and email from the Stripe step (steps.0.output...) to compose a rich, helpful message for our Slack channel.
4. Deployment as an API: Once you deploy this agent using the SDK, the .do platform automatically exposes the stripe.subscription.created workflow as a secure, scalable API endpoint. You simply paste this endpoint URL into your Stripe webhook configuration, and your integration is live. No servers to manage, no boilerplate to write.

Beyond Stripe and Slack

This pattern is infinitely extensible. You can chain together any number of services to automate complex business processes:

• Customer Onboarding: A new Stripe subscription could trigger a workflow that adds the user to a Mailchimp list, creates a profile in your internal Postgres database, and assigns a welcome task in Asana.
• Support Triage: A form submission from your website could trigger a workflow that enriches the lead data using an API like Clearbit, creates a new contact in Salesforce, and opens a high-priority ticket in Zendesk.
• Financial Reconciliation: A daily scheduled agent could fetch payment reports from Stripe, transaction data from your bank's API, and generate a reconciliation summary that gets emailed via SendGrid.

With the .do SDK, you're not just connecting apps; you're composing new, powerful Services-as-Software from the building blocks you already use.

Ready to stop wrestling with glue code and start building robust, scalable integrations?

Get started with the .do SDK today. Install the package via npm install @do-sdk/core and check out the documentation to turn your most complex business processes into clean, powerful code.