Commerce-system discovery
Before integrating a payment provider or building a commerce workflow, map what happens from offer and tax input through authorization, fulfilment, refund, reconciliation, and support. Faith Forge Labs implements approved technical behaviour; the client and its qualified advisers decide the commercial and tax rules.
Define the product or service, buyer types, currencies, fulfilment jurisdictions, subscriptions or one-time charges, and any account or approval steps before payment.
Name the system and responsible reviewer that determine price, discount, tax category, place-of-supply inputs, registration status, exemptions, and invoice content. The software should not invent rules the organization has not approved.
Record which provider collects sensitive payment details, which tokens the application receives, available webhooks, settlement currencies, payout timing, disputes, and supported refund operations.
Define when an order becomes valid, which system owns status, how inventory or capacity is reserved, and what happens when payment succeeds but the next system is unavailable.
Connect transaction, refund, fee, payout, invoice, and general-ledger references without treating a dashboard total as accounting proof. Give support staff a traceable exception path.
The Canada Revenue Agency publishes current GST/HST business information, including registration, charging, invoicing, reporting, and special circumstances. Faith Forge Labs can implement client-approved logic but does not decide whether registration is required, which rate applies, or how a transaction must be reported.
Bring the transaction lifecycle