diff --git a/desktop/src/main.ts b/desktop/src/main.ts
index d187b1f795..68b9e45e06 100644
--- a/desktop/src/main.ts
+++ b/desktop/src/main.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,14 @@
 
 import { nativeImage, shell } from "electron/common";
 import type { WebContents } from "electron/main";
-import { BrowserWindow, Menu, Tray, app, protocol } from "electron/main";
+import {
+    BrowserWindow,
+    Menu,
+    Tray,
+    app,
+    dialog,
+    protocol,
+} from "electron/main";
 import serveNextAt from "next-electron-server";
 import { existsSync } from "node:fs";
 import fs from "node:fs/promises";
@@ -131,6 +138,7 @@ const main = () => {
             const webContents = mainWindow.webContents;
             setDownloadPath(webContents);
             allowExternalLinks(webContents);
+            handleBackOnStripeCheckout(mainWindow);
             allowAllCORSOrigins(webContents);
 
             // Start loading the renderer.
@@ -502,6 +510,45 @@ const allowExternalLinks = (webContents: WebContents) =>
         }
     });
 
+/**
+ * Handle back button presses on the Stripe checkout page.
+ *
+ * For payments, we show the Stripe checkout page to the user in the app's
+ * window. On this page there is a back button that allows the user to get back
+ * to the app's contents. Since we're not showing the browser controls, this is
+ * the only way to get back to the app.
+ *
+ * If the user enters something in the text fields on this page (e.g. if they
+ * start entering their credit card number), and then press back, then the
+ * browser shows the user a dialog asking them to confirm if they want to
+ * discard their unsaved changes. However, when running in the context of an
+ * Electron app, this dialog is not shown, and instead the app just gets stuck
+ * (the back button stops working, and quitting the app also doesn't work since
+ * there is an invisible modal dialog).
+ *
+ * So we instead intercept these back button presses, and show the same dialog
+ * that the browser would've shown.
+ */
+const handleBackOnStripeCheckout = (window: BrowserWindow) =>
+    window.webContents.on("will-prevent-unload", (event) => {
+        const url = new URL(window.webContents.getURL());
+        // Only intercept on Stripe checkout pages.
+        if (url.host != "checkout.stripe.com") return;
+
+        // The dialog copy is similar to what Chrome would've shown.
+        // https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/web-contents#event-will-prevent-unload
+        const choice = dialog.showMessageBoxSync(window, {
+            type: "question",
+            buttons: ["Leave", "Stay"],
+            title: "Leave site?",
+            message: "Changes that you made may not be saved.",
+            defaultId: 0,
+            cancelId: 1,
+        });
+        const leave = choice === 0;
+        if (leave) event.preventDefault();
+    });
+
 /**
  * Allow uploads to arbitrary S3 buckets.
  *