I had the same experience my first go at integrating Stripe.

I was able to accept donations in all the ways I wanted:

  - using Netlify (free hosting, includes lambda)
  - custom amounts
  - one-time payment or recurring
  - form on my own site

code is here:

https://github.com/revddit/revddit/blob/master/lambda-src/do...

https://github.com/revddit/revddit/blob/master/src/pages/com...