Review Room is a hypothetical app that lets a team upload a draft, pay for a review, and download the result. If you were about to invite the first paying team to the hosted app, you'd need to check more than the payment form. Try the upload and download with a test account, then check that other teams can't read the private draft and that someone can help if the download fails.
Run the checks against the deployed app and record who ran each one, when they ran it, and what they saw. Use those results to decide whether to open the paid plan. Leave any check open until someone runs it.
Start with the task the customer buys
Review Room has a frontend, an API, and Postgres. Start in a fresh browser with a test account, upload a synthetic draft, and buy the test plan. Download the review and open the file, since the page may show success before the app has produced a usable review.
Sign out and come back to check that the draft and review are still attached to the same account. If the app held the result only in browser memory, the customer could lose it after a successful first visit.
Try uploading a file type the app doesn't accept. Check that the error tells the buyer what to change, then use the request reference to find the failure in the logs. That gives the buyer a way to try again and gives you somewhere to start if they still need help.
Check privacy with a second account
Sign in to a second workspace and change the file ID in an API request to try to read the first team's draft. Then request the first team's paid review. The backend should reject both requests.
A valid sign-in identifies the caller. The API must still check that the caller belongs to the workspace that owns the file and has access to the paid feature. Test the API directly because a hidden link or button does not enforce that rule.
Review the logs from these checks. Keep IDs, error codes, and enough context to investigate. Avoid storing private drafts, card details, tokens, or secrets in log output. Helpful diagnostics should let an operator follow the request without copying everything the customer sent.
Follow payment all the way to access
Buy the plan in a payment sandbox, then compare the provider record with the workspace ID stored for that purchase. Call the paid API to check that the team named on the record can now download the review.
Then close the tab after payment and before the return page loads. The app should still update access through its server event path. Stripe's fulfillment guide explains why the browser return alone cannot finish every paid purchase. Stripe fulfillment guidance
Send a valid event again and check that the workspace still has one grant for the intended period, with no extra credits or month of access. Then test a failed renewal and a cancellation to see whether each change follows the policy shown to buyers. Stripe Billing testing
Save the actual access state after each case. A mocked handler can help check the logic. To check delivery, send a real test notice from the provider and record what happens when it reaches the deployed route.
Try the path back from lost data
Decide how much work you can afford to lose and how long customers can wait during an outage. Those answers help you choose backup and restore options. A team that can lose a day of edits has different needs from one that must recover the last few minutes.
Restore synthetic records into a safe target. Then connect a test app and open a restored draft. Include the time and steps needed to select the backup, obtain help where required, reconnect, and check the data.
Think about records written after the backup too. Decide who will find them and how you will handle missing uploads, completed payments, or access changes. Restoring a database can bring back an older view of billing while the payment provider still has the later history.
On Forte, shared databases have daily backups and restores through Support. Dedicated Postgres adds point-in-time restore and is in closed alpha. That tier has a separate access gate, so plan against the tier you can actually use. Forte database backups
Give an incident to a named person
Choose who reads the first support message and who can deploy a fix. Give them a safe lookup path from a request reference to the workspace, payment, and failed review. Record who can approve a refund and who can disable a feature that is causing harm.
Keep the reference for a known working release. Test the process you would use to restore that version. If the new release changed the database, check that the old app can still use it. Returning to old code cannot undo every schema or data change.
Bring these results to a short launch review. An unresolved leak between workspaces or an unusable restore route needs a decision before you accept the customer's work. Optional reports and styling can have a later date without hiding a gap in the paid task.
Run the checks on Forte
Deploy Review Room in a Sandbox Project with a Service for the API and a Website for the frontend. Check the public journey after both deploy. Websites bypass the Service gateway's user checks, so enforce the app's permissions on the API and any server-rendered Website routes that need them. Forte deployment steps
Add the plan through the Subscriptions API and connect payment triggers to the access handler. Live payments require approved compliance registration. Review current product limits, including Postgres Open Beta, before making them a paid-customer dependency. Forte subscriptions, feature maturity
Use the monitoring guide to find one deliberate failed Service request. Attach its safe trace to the launch record so the person on support has a path they can follow.