# How to Add Checkout to a Flask API

DevFeed: [How to Add Checkout to a Flask API](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-add-checkout-to-a-flask-api-9562.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://dodopayments.com/blogs/add-checkout-flask-api/>)

Author: Ayush Agarwal

Published: 2026-03-29T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Dodo Payments Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dodo-payments-blog.md>)

Topics: [Flask](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/flask.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [checkout](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/checkout.md>), [developer-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-tools.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [integration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/integration.md>), [payment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/payment.md>), [payment-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/payment-processing.md>), [payments](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/payments.md>), [webhooks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webhooks.md>)

## AI overview

A guide to adding checkout to a Flask API using separate endpoints for checkout-session creation and payment webhooks. It explains webhook signature verification, access granting after successful payment, hosted payment links, and using Dodo Payments as a Merchant of Record layer.

## Source excerpt

Guide to integrating payment processing in Flask applications. Covers checkout endpoints, webhook routes, subscription management, and Merchant of Record compliance.