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What a Paid Chrome Extension Needs Before the First Customer
Selling a Chrome extension is not only a Manifest V3 problem. The extension needs a way to know who paid, what they can access, and how it should behave when the network is unreliable.
The first version should keep the product surface small, but the paid access path needs to be complete. Checkout, webhook handling, entitlement storage, license validation, and support flows all affect the customer experience.
Chrome Extension Kit puts those pieces in one repository so the product work can start from a working paid-extension foundation instead of a blank billing integration.