In the Stripe Developer Office Hours episode, Clerk's CTO and co-founder Braden Sidoti discusses creating a comprehensive billing system using Clerk, bypassing the need for webhooks, custom UIs, or Stripe session management. Clerk integrates directly with a Stripe account, allowing Stripe to manage payments while Clerk oversees the user interface, entitlement logic, and session-aware billing flows. Sidoti demonstrates setting up subscriptions, usage-based pricing, and organization-level billing through Clerk's prebuilt components and APIs, highlighting features like role-based access, secure upgrades, and customer self-service integrated with existing authentication layers. The discussion also covers Clerk's infrastructure approach, the transition from prototype to production without additional code, and the benefits of linking billing to identity to streamline processes such as user onboarding and plan upgrades. This approach offers a streamlined way to expedite payment processing with reduced complexity, and Clerk Billing is available in all countries supported by Stripe, integrating seamlessly with existing Clerk applications.