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I don't know what this startup is, but one option for startups to get started with payments is http://chargify.com http://chargify.com , their api is pretty sol

I don't know what this startup is, but one option for startups to get started with payments is http://chargify.com http://chargify.com , their api is pretty solid and they are good with support and are focused recurring payment processing. Only issue is you still need a payment gateway such as Braintree, Authorize.NET, etc.

sunir 16y ago
Hey, quick question. How long did it take you to get set up with Chargify?
- mgrouchy 16y ago
  chargify itself, not too long. Especially if you do everything their way(we are kind of doing some weird things with it currently). If you don't want to write your own, there are a bunch of API libraries available for a bunch of languages as well as hosted paged for registration and payments if you need them. As everyone else has said, the long parts have been the up front setup time of the merchant account and payment gateway. All in all though, I'm pretty impressed with Chargifys offering.
  - sunir 16y ago
    Thanks! What kind of weird things are you doing that don't fit with the recurring model?
    - mgrouchy 16y ago
      Its just that much of our billing system was done before we ended up switching to chargify, so some of integration pieces are kind of weird(probably not how we initially would have designed them) and we are looking at doing some things with quantity based pricing, where we do something similar to linode and charge you a prorated amount up front for a item then charge you the full amount during the next period. As well as offering prorated credits for removal of a product. This is not supported by Chargify yet, they only charge for items at the beginning of a period. If we were using a simple recurring subscription for this and not quantify based model this wouldn't be an issue, because they do offer prorated upgrades and downgrades for recurring subscriptions. Nothing overly complicated here, just have to hack around some of the current limitations of the platform.
      - sunir 16y ago
        Thanks!
bdickason 16y ago
The payment gateway is still the bottleneck. Call it the only piece in the value chain that hasn't been 'modernized.'
- SwellJoe 16y ago
  Merchant services is even more old-fashioned than the gateways, as far as I can tell.

sunir 16y ago

Hey, quick question. How long did it take you to get set up with Chargify?

mgrouchy 16y ago
chargify itself, not too long. Especially if you do everything their way(we are kind of doing some weird things with it currently). If you don't want to write your own, there are a bunch of API libraries available for a bunch of languages as well as hosted paged for registration and payments if you need them. As everyone else has said, the long parts have been the up front setup time of the merchant account and payment gateway. All in all though, I'm pretty impressed with Chargifys offering.
- sunir 16y ago
  Thanks! What kind of weird things are you doing that don't fit with the recurring model?
  - mgrouchy 16y ago
    Its just that much of our billing system was done before we ended up switching to chargify, so some of integration pieces are kind of weird(probably not how we initially would have designed them) and we are looking at doing some things with quantity based pricing, where we do something similar to linode and charge you a prorated amount up front for a item then charge you the full amount during the next period. As well as offering prorated credits for removal of a product. This is not supported by Chargify yet, they only charge for items at the beginning of a period. If we were using a simple recurring subscription for this and not quantify based model this wouldn't be an issue, because they do offer prorated upgrades and downgrades for recurring subscriptions. Nothing overly complicated here, just have to hack around some of the current limitations of the platform.
    - sunir 16y ago
      Thanks!

bdickason 16y ago

The payment gateway is still the bottleneck. Call it the only piece in the value chain that hasn't been 'modernized.'

SwellJoe 16y ago
Merchant services is even more old-fashioned than the gateways, as far as I can tell.