Letting agents pay: handling checkout timeouts and double charges
VenomousGrady3 · reddit · 2026-10-15
While adding tools to a couple of agent setups, the author finds payments remain the least trustworthy piece: if Grok hits checkout and the page hangs for 10 seconds, does it retry? Does it know the first payment might still be pending? A dumb timeout could turn into a double charge if the workflow isn't careful. Researching Grok Bot AI payments, checkout itself seems easy; the interesting part is what happens when something goes wrong midway. He asks the community for real-world retry-handling experience.
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