Deploying

Because this SaaS app is a React/NodeJS/Postgres app built on top of Wasp, Open SaaS can take advantage of Wasp’s easy, one-command deploy or manual deploy to any provider of your choice.

The simplest and quickest option is to take advantage of Wasp’s one-command deploy to Fly.io or Railway.

Or if you prefer to deploy to a different provider, or your frontend and backend separately, you can follow the Deploying Manually section below.

Steps for Deploying

These are the steps necessary for you to deploy your app. We recommend you follow these steps in order.

• Get your production API keys and environment variables.
• Set your production environment variables on your deployed apps.
• Add the correct redirect URL’s to your social auth credentials.
• Set your production settings for your payment provider.
• Deploy your App through Wasp Deploy commands or manually to any provider.
• (Optional) Deploy your blog.

Each of these steps is covered in more detail below.

Prerequisites

AWS S3 CORS configuration

If you’re storing files in AWS S3, ensure you’ve listed your production domain in the bucket’s CORS configuration under AllowedOrigins. Check the File uploading guide for details.

Env Vars

Make sure you’ve got all your API keys and environment variables set up before you deploy.

Payment Processor Vars

In the Payments Processor integration guide, you set up your API keys using test keys and test product ids. You’ll need to get the live/production versions of those keys. To get these, repeat the instructions in the Integration Guide without being in test mode. Add the new keys to your deployed environment secrets.

Other Vars

Many of your other environment variables will probably be the same as in development, but you should double-check that they are set correctly for production.

Here are a list of all of them (some of which you may not be using, e.g. Analytics, Social Auth) in case you need to check:

General Vars

• DATABASE_URL
• JWT_SECRET
• WASP_WEB_CLIENT_URL
• WASP_SERVER_URL

Open AI API Key

• OPENAI_API_KEY

Sendgrid API Key

• SENDGRID_API_KEY

Social Auth Vars

• GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID
• GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET
• GITHUB_CLIENT_ID
• GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET

Analytics Vars

• REACT_APP_PLAUSIBLE_ANALYTICS_ID (for client-side)
• PLAUSIBLE_API_KEY
• PLAUSIBLE_SITE_ID
• PLAUSIBLE_BASE_URL
• REACT_APP_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID (for client-side)
• GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_CLIENT_EMAIL
• GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_PROPERTY_ID
• GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_PRIVATE_KEY (Make sure you convert the private key within the JSON file to base64 first with echo -n "PRIVATE_KEY" | base64. See the Analytics docs for more info)

AWS S3 Vars

• AWS_S3_IAM_ACCESS_KEY
• AWS_S3_IAM_SECRET_KEY
• AWS_S3_FILES_BUCKET
• AWS_S3_REGION

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Adding Server Redirect URL’s to Social Auth

After deploying your server, you need to add the correct redirect URIs to the credential settings. For this, refer to the guides from the Wasp Docs.

Payment Providers Production Settings

Stripe

Now you need to set up your stripe webhook for production use. Below are some important steps and considerations you should take as you prepare to deploy your app to production.

Stripe API Versions

When you create your Stripe account, Stripe will automatically assign you to their latest API version at that time. This API version is important because it determines the structure of the responses Stripe sends to your webhook, as well as the structure it expects of the requests you make toward the Stripe API.

Because this template was built with a specific version of the Stripe API in mind, it could be that your Stripe account is set to a different API version.

Note

stripeClient.ts

const STRIPE_API_VERSION = "2025-04-30.basil"; // or e.g. 2023-08-16 if using older format

export const stripeClient = new Stripe(requireNodeEnvVar("STRIPE_API_KEY"), {
  apiVersion: STRIPE_API_VERSION,
});

When you specify a specific API version in your Stripe client, the requests you send to Stripe from your server, along with their responses, will match that API version. On the other hand, Stripe will send all other events to your webhook that didn’t originate as a request sent from your server, like those made after a user completes a payment on checkout, using the default API version of the API.

This is why it’s important to make sure your Stripe client version also matches the API version in your Stripe account, and to thoroughly test any changes you make to your Stripe client before deploying to production.

To make sure your app is consistent with your Stripe account, here are some steps you can follow:

1. You can find your default API version in the Stripe dashboard under the Developers section.
2. Check that the API version in your /src/payment/stripe/stripeClient.ts file matches the default API version in your dashboard:

   stripeClient.ts

   const STRIPE_API_VERSION = "2025-04-30.basil"; // or e.g. 2023-08-16 if using older format
   
   export const stripeClient = new Stripe(requireNodeEnvVar("STRIPE_API_KEY"), {
     apiVersion: STRIPE_API_VERSION,
   });

3. If they don’t match, you can upgrade/downgrade your Stripe NPM package in package.json to match the API version in your dashboard:

• If your default version on the Stripe dashboard is also the latest version of the API, you can simply upgrade your Stripe NPM package to the latest version.
• If your default version on the Stripe dashboard is not the latest version, and you don’t want to upgrade to the latest version, because e.g. you have other projects that depend on the current version, you can find and install the Stripe NPM package version that matches your default API version by following these steps:
  • Find and note the date of your default API version in the developer dashboard.
  • Go to the Stripe NPM package page and hover over Published date column until you find the package release that matches your version. For example, here we find the NPM version 13.x.x matches the API version of 2023-08-16.
  • Install the correct version of the Stripe NPM package by running:

      npm install stripe@x.x.x # e.g. npm install stripe@13.11.0

4. Test your app thoroughly to make sure that the changes you made to your Stripe client are working as expected before deploying to production.

Creating Your Production Webhook

1. Go to https://dashboard.stripe.com/webhooks
2. Click on + add endpoint
3. Enter your endpoint url, which will be the url of your deployed server + /payments-webhook, e.g. https://open-saas-wasp-sh-server.fly.dev/payments-webhook
4. Select the events you want to listen to. These should be the same events you’re consuming in your webhook which are handled in src/payment/stripe/webhook.ts:
5. After that, go to the webhook you just created and reveal the new signing secret.
6. Add this secret to your deployed server’s STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET environment variable. If you’ve deployed to Fly.io, you can do that easily with the following command:

   wasp deploy fly cmd --context server secrets set STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET=whsec_...

Lemon Squeezy

Creating Your Production Webhook

To set up your Lemon Squeezy webhook, you’ll need the URL of you newly deployed server + /payments-webhook, e.g. https://open-saas-wasp-sh-server.fly.dev/payments-webhook.

With the webhook url ready, go to your Lemon Squeezy Webhooks Dashboard:

1. Click the + button.
2. Add the webhook forwarding url to the Callback URL section.
3. Give your webhook a signing secret (a long, random string).
4. Add this signing secret to your server’s production environment variables under LEMONSQUEEZY_WEBHOOK_SECRET.
5. Make sure to select at least the following updates to be sent:
   • order_created
   • subscription_created
   • subscription_updated
   • subscription_cancelled
6. Click save.

Polar

Turning off the Sandbox mode

Make sure to turn off the sandbox mode in your server’s production environemnt:

.env.server

POLAR_SANDBOX_MODE=false

Creating Your Production Webhook

To set up your Polar webhook, you’ll need the URL of your newly deployed server + /payments-webhook, e.g. https://open-saas-wasp-sh-server.fly.dev/payments-webhook.

With the webhook URL ready, in your Polar Dashboard:

1. Navigate to Settings > Webhooks.
2. Click the Add Endpoint button.
3. In the URL field, paste your production forwarding address.
4. Set the Format to "Raw".
5. Select the following events to listen for:
   • order.paid
   • subscription.updated
6. Click Save.
7. Copy the generated webhook secret and set it as the POLAR_WEBHOOK_SECRET environment variable in production.

Deploying your App

Deploying to Fly.io

Fly.io is a platform for running your apps globally. It’s a great choice for deploying your SaaS app because it’s free to get started, can host your entire full-stack app in one place, scales well, and has one-command deploy integration with Wasp.

Wasp provides the handy wasp deploy command to deploy your entire full-stack app (DB, server, and client) in one command.

To learn how, please follow the detailed guide for deploying to Fly via the Wasp CLI from the Wasp documentation. We suggest you follow this guide carefully to get your app deployed.

Setting Environment Variables

Remember, because we’ve set certain client-side env variables, make sure to pass them to the wasp deploy commands so that they can be included in the build:

REACT_APP_CLIENT_ENV_VAR_1=<...> REACT_APP_CLIENT_ENV_VAR_2=<...> wasp deploy

The wasp deploy command will also take care of setting the following server-side environment variables for you so you don’t have to:

• DATABASE_URL
• PORT
• JWT_SECRET
• WASP_WEB_CLIENT_URL
• WASP_SERVER_URL

For setting the remaining server-side environment variables, please refer to the Deploying with the Wasp CLI Guide.

Deploying Manually

If you prefer to deploy manually, your frontend and backend separately, or just prefer using your favorite provider you can follow Wasp’s Manual Deployment Guide.

Client-side Environment Variables

Remember to always set additional client-side environment variables, such as REACT_APP_STRIPE_CUSTOMER_PORTAL by appending them to the build command, e.g.

REACT_APP_CLIENT_ENV_VAR_1=<...> npm run build

Deploying your Blog

Deploying your Astro Starlight blog is a bit different than deploying your SaaS app. As an example, we will show you how to deploy your blog for free to Netlify. You will need a Netlify account and Netlify CLI installed to follow these instructions.

Make sure you are logged in with Netlify CLI:

• You can check if you are logged in with netlify status.
• You can log in with netlify login.

Position yourself in the blog directory and run the following command:

npm run build

This will build your blog into the blog/dist directory. Now you can deploy your blog to Netlify with the following command:

netlify deploy

Select the dist directory as the deploy path.

Finally, if the deployment looks good, you can deploy your blog to production with the following command:

netlify deploy --prod