Local development with Stripe breaks install—is it possible?

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I’m doing some local development and need to connect to Stripe to test out designs on my custom membership page. But as is documented here (Cannot start a new install of Ghost), connecting to Stripe does not play nice with ghost-local.db.

I’ve broken my install doing this, and the only way to fix it seems to be to disconnect stripe and manually empty the members table. I had to revert ghost-local.db to a previous version to recover.

Related threads:

Can paid memberships be tested on a local installation

Hello! I’ve been hunting around to see if there is a recommended way for creating paid members in a local installation for testing purposes and theme development. The documentation for Ghost is really solid but I’m not having any luck finding this so far. Is there a way to change the permissions for a user to paid-members only using Ghost-CLI or some other method? Thanks in advance for the help Ghost community.

I haven’t even go as far as this person. I’m not sure how to connect Stripe test accounts, I don’t think I got that option when I connected stripe to my local environment.

Here’s another person looking for the same feature:

Setting up membership tiers locally (for testing)

Is there a way to set-up tiers in a locally run ghost version (as soon as I connect a local version to Stripe it won’t start anymore)? So how can I test tiers and how they show up without being able to create on in the backend of my local ghost dev website?

There’s gotta be a better way than this. How is everyone else testing out custom membership pages with their actual pricing data and benefits?