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I've been selling a SaaS product for the last four years. Originally I used Stripe but recently switched to Paddle. The main reason is that it makes my life a
by fyfy18 7y ago
I've been selling a SaaS product for the last four years. Originally I used Stripe but recently switched to Paddle.
The main reason is that it makes my life a lot easier, they act as a reseller so I effectively sell my product to them, and they sell it on to customers. At the end of each month I just need to enter a single payment into my accounting platform, and they handle all currency conversions (I sell in USD, my accounting is in GBP) and sales taxes. They of course charge more, but for the amounts I'm talking about the cost outweighs the time I was spending dealing with Stripe payments.
They also support PayPal which I've had a lot of people ask for, so that's a win too.
- ivanovb 7y agoSorry if it's offtopic, but can you give me an estimate of how much is Paddle charging? Their pricing page is not really helpful. Also, how easy it was to implement into your systems?
- yani 7y agoThis service is still alpha/beta at best. I tried them and I got customers with double charges, missing emails, and their interface is difficult to understand and make use of. Give them one more year before trying.
- nickjj 7y agoAt the same time it's being used for https://realpython.com https://realpython.com which has millions of monthly views and an unknown (but likely high) amount of developers paying for their subscription through Paddle. If you want to hear a success story about it, we talked about it when Dan (the guy who runs Real Python) went over his entire tech stack on this podcast: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/4-real-python-is-one-of-the-largest-python-learning-platforms-around https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/4-real-python-is-one... 36:36 is when the Paddle bits starts. Did you have a bad experience with it? If so, how long ago was that? I was thinking about using it on a future project.
- sparkling 7y agoWhile the overall complexity of the integration is less than Stripe, i feel like the whole thing is still in beta stage. There is no real isolated test environment, the suggested way of doing this is to give yourself a refund or work with $0 products.
- pimterry 7y agoI just have a secret 100% off voucher code for testing. It's not perfect and I'd would prefer a real test environment, but it does the job fine.
- buboard 7y agothis. accounting has become a big burden , especially if you are using microtransactions. i use xsolla for game payments for the same reasons. any alternatives to suggest?