Lucas built his D2C store’s landing page and checkout in Framer. Conversion was 4.2%. Then Stripe events fired but customers didn’t get order confirmations. The CRM webhook had been silently failing for 6 weeks. Three thousand pounds of refunds went out because nobody knew which orders had actually been paid.
Rescue Framer backend audit · Memberstack + Zapier + security testing · UK
A Framer backend audit for the duct-tape. behind a beautiful site.
The site looks incredible. Underneath it’s four Zaps, a Google Sheet of record, and Memberstack gating anyone with sheet access walks through. In 5 days two seniors audit every Zap, webhook, permission and CMS endpoint, then hand you a hardened backend. You keep Framer. £8K fixed.
24hreply, from a senior
200+projects shipped since 2019
Senioronly, on the spine
(Why founders book it)
Your Framer codebase shipped fast. Now find out what’s missing before someone else does.
Memberstack’s own docs admit an advised user could inject the permissions and reveal any protected feature. Zapier Stripe webhooks have no idempotency by default, so Zaps double-fire member creation, receipts, and Sheet writes. The audit finds it first.
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The founder this page is for11 findings · 3 critical · £3K refunds
Lucas sold from Framer. The brand loved it. The checkout broke on a Monday.
The first wholesale customer asked for a security questionnaire. Framer couldn’t answer most of it. The product wasn’t the problem. The backend underneath was: four Zaps, a Google Sheet of record, and Memberstack gating that anyone with sheet access could walk straight through.
We ran the 5-day audit and found eleven things. Three were critical: a silently failing CRM webhook, an idempotency-less Stripe handler, customer accounts reachable by URL parameter. He had the written report on day six. This page is for founders who’d rather know what’s in their Framer codebase before the seed lead does.
Ten things we find in almost every Framer audit.
Patterns we’ve seen across six independent Framer audits. Framer is the best site builder we’ve worked with. It is not a backend, a database, or an auth provider. You can’t blame the tool. You can fix the gaps before someone else finds them.
- 01
“Half the backend logic runs through Zapier. When it throttles, things just stop.”
Customers don’t get welcome emails, invoices don’t send, leads vanish. No alerting on any of it. We map every Zap, every webhook, and where each one silently drops data.
- 02
“User authentication checks a Google Sheet via Apps Script.”
Anyone with sheet edit access becomes an admin. SOC-2 impossible. We document the exposure and the path to a real auth provider.
- 03
“Customer records live as CMS items in Framer.”
No row-level scoping. Editor permissions equal customer-data permissions. The ICO would flag this in minutes. We test every CMS endpoint for it.
- 04
“Who changed what, when, and why? There’s no record.”
A SOC-2 audit becomes a six-month panic. We show where the log has to live and what it has to capture.
- 05
“Full name, email, billing address loaded into the React state.”
Visible in the browser dev tools to anyone logged in. We trace every field that crosses to the client and shouldn’t.
- 06
“Customer-list queries take 14 seconds at 5K records.”
At 50K they time out. Today it’s fine. In three months it’s an outage. We model the query plan and the capacity ceiling.
- 07
“A Stripe live key sits in a .env file that’s in Git history.”
OpenAI key, SendGrid key, all in plain text. We scan the full history and hand you a rotation plan per credential.
- 08
“Login and signup endpoints accept unlimited requests.”
Brute force becomes possible. Anomaly detection is nonexistent. We test the endpoints and set the budgets they need.
- 09
“No unit tests. No integration tests. No e2e tests.”
Every refactor is a leap of faith. We report current coverage and the highest-leverage tests to add first.
- 10
“The first enterprise customer asks for a questionnaire and a DPA. You have neither.”
The deal stalls. The audit ships the readiness checklist and a DPA template so it doesn’t.
WHAT THE AUDIT COVERS
Six things we put under the microscope
The same six assessments on every Framer codebase.
Each one ships in the 30-page report, priced in GBP and engineering days.
OWASP Top-10 pen test
Every category tested against your live Framer app. Pass or fail per row, with a sample attack and a remediation per failure, not a checklist.
Architecture review
Schema, keys, indexes, multi-tenant boundaries. A one-page data flow diagram and a load model at 10× current traffic so you know the ceiling.
Idempotent billing
We trace every Stripe webhook and every Zap that touches money. No idempotency means Zaps double-fire receipts and member creation. We map where data drops.
Auth + RLS hardening
Sessions, tokens, refresh, anon-key handling, row-level scoping on Memberstack and CMS items. We test for accounts reachable by URL parameter.
Audit log on every mutation
Who changed what, when, and why. We show where the log has to live and what it has to capture, so a SOC-2 review isn’t a six-month panic.
SOC-2 + DPA pack
UK GDPR data handling, a signed DPA template, a sub-processor list, and a SOC-2 readiness checklist with an 8-12 week path to ready.
Recent client · UK D2C · 2025
Lucas’s Framer codebase,
Lucas’s Framer codebase,
audited and rebuilt, in numbers
We found 11 issues, three critical: silent webhook failures, no idempotency, exposed customer URLs. Lucas kept the Framer surface. We rebuilt the backend on Node + MongoDB + AWS in five weeks. Zero lost orders post-cutover.
The audit
11
Findings, 3 critical
5-day
Audit, report on day six
The rebuild
5 wk
Backend rebuild, same UI
0
Lost orders post-cutover
The track record
4.25.8%
Conversion, cleaner checkout
6
Framer audits since 2024
Lucas’s numbers, after the audit
One UK D2C founder, 5 days of senior attention, then a backend that holds.
11
Findings in the report,
Stripe events fired but customers never got order confirmations. Three thousand pounds of refunds went out because nobody knew which orders had actually been paid. The audit found the silently failing webhook on day two.
Three ways to start. The audit fee is fixed.
Everything past the audit is line-itemed. You decide on day six: walk away with the report, fix the critical findings, or rebuild the spine.
5-day audit
£8K fixed. 30-page written report, severity-ranked fix list, effort estimate per fix. You walk away with the report.
- OWASP-grade pen test
- Architecture + scale model
- SOC-2 + DPA pack
- No commitment to fix with us
2-4 wk sprint
£18K-30K total. We fix the critical findings, you keep Framer for the rest. Behind-flag deploy, zero customer-facing downtime.
- Audit + 4 critical fixes
- Idempotent billing
- Auth + RLS hardened
- Audit log on every mutation
6-12 wk rebuild
£28K-60K total. Full rebuild on MERN + AWS. Same Framer UI, new defensible spine, zero-downtime cutover.
- Same UI, new spine
- Acquirer-ready ADRs
- 30-day walk-away both ways
- IP assigns on every commit
What founders actually ask about the audit
Pain-first, soft-second.
The honest answer: probably not yet, and that’s normal. Across six Framer audits, every codebase had at least three critical findings: an auth gap, a billing race condition, a tenant-isolation hole, or a missing audit log. Framer is a brilliant builder. It’s not a security platform. The 5-day Framer backend audit tells you what’s missing, ranked by severity, with effort estimates.
No. Every founder we audit shipped fast with the tools that worked. We’re not judging your speed, we’re telling you what to fix before someone else finds it. The audit report is written for you, not against you. We’ve never named-and-shamed a client and we never will.
5 days of senior engineering attention on your codebase. An OWASP-grade penetration test against your live Framer app. Architecture review. A load model at 10× current traffic. SOC-2 readiness checklist. UK GDPR and DPA pack. Code quality and test coverage report. A 30-page written report with severity-ranked findings, sample code per finding, and effort estimates in GBP and engineering days. You can walk away after the audit. Most founders don’t, but the option is real.
No. The audit runs against a staging copy of your codebase, with a separate environment for the penetration testing. Your production stays untouched. Your customers don’t see a thing.
Yes. The Framer backend audit report is written so your engineer can fix the findings without us. Every finding has sample code, an effort estimate, and a recommended pattern. About a third of our audited clients fix in-house, about a third use us for the critical fixes only, about a third move to a full rebuild. All three paths are fine. You decide on day six.
For most cases, yes. The audit doubles as a diligence pack: architecture diagram, six suggested ADRs, threat model, sub-processor list, SOC-2 readiness checklist, DPA template. Seed leads have read it on Friday and approved on Monday. Enterprise customers have used it to skip 70% of their security questionnaire. Full SOC-2 certification is a separate 8-12 week phase; we hand you the path.
Yes, before anything else. NDA signed inside 30 minutes via DocuSign, mutual NDA template ready. We only need read-only repo access for the audit, never write access. Audit findings are encrypted at rest, accessible only to the four engineers on your project, and destroyed 90 days after handover unless you request a longer retention.
Framer is the builder. We’re an independent Framer security audit team. The report you get from us is the one your acquirer’s CTO trusts, because it isn’t coming from the company that built the tool. Our pen test goes against your live app, the dependencies you imported, the integrations you wired in, and the deploy infrastructure you chose. Different angle, different findings.
In context
Inside the work.
A look at the kind of framer rescue surface we hand over — real screens, real data, documented and yours from day one.
Book the 5-day audit. NDA inside 30 minutes.
Tell us the Framer app URL, your seed timeline, and the customer you’d like to close next. Mohit replies inside 24 hours: a clear yes, a clear no, or the one question that decides it.
What happens after the email lands
- < 24h
A personal reply.
Yes, no, or the deciding question. Straight to your inbox.
- Mon
NDA + read-only access.
Signed in 30 minutes. Two senior engineers start on the live app.
- Fri
30-page report.
Severity-ranked findings, sample code, effort in GBP and days.