In the previous course section,
we worked on this big milestone project, our online shop.
In this course section,
we're going to enhance it by adding payments,
by processing credit card payments to be precise.
And for implementing this logic and this feature,
we will tap into a brand new concept
which we haven't really discussed too much thus far
and that would be the concept of using services or APIs,
specifically third-party services or APIs in your projects.
You'll see it at the example of a service called Stripe
in this course section,
which is a service that allows us to add payments.
But for this course module,
we are going to discuss services and APIs
and what that exactly is in detail in a more general way,
so also outside of using payments,
so that you will understand what services and APIs are.
I am then going to introduce you to the Stripe service,
and I'll explain to you how it can help us handle payments
in our websites.
And then we're going to implement Stripe in our project
to add payments to this website which we've been working on,
and we'll see how that works, some potential pitfalls,
and how we can,
therefore then at the end of this course section,
have a real online shop where we can handle real payments.