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If I have a SaaS (e.g. website that offers some service) then is there a good service that takes care of the technical part of user registration, payment and us

If I have a SaaS (e.g. website that offers some service) then is there a good service that takes care of the technical part of user registration, payment and user support / CRM? Even if there are services like stripe and Auth0, as a solo developer it takes considerable time to connect all these together to get the basic functionality to actually sell things and integrate it into my product.

bluedevil2k 5y ago
> as a solo developer it takes considerable time to connect all these together Well hopefully it you’re a developer it doesn’t take that long. I just switched a SaaS to Stripe from PayPal last week and it took less than 30 minutes. These SaaS support tools/websites are increasingly easy to use, making time to market for even a solo dev pretty easy.
kolaente 5y ago
Stripe is incredibly good. And then there's stuff like Laravel Spark which handles all the common stuff like accounts and invoicing.
- valenterry 5y ago
  Sounds like I have to install/maintain stuff here myself. I wish there was a solution that doesn't require me to have any additional infrastructure...
cspags 5y ago
https://www.outseta.com/ https://www.outseta.com/ is the best tool I've seen that offers everything you listed.
- valenterry 5y ago
  Wow! That's it! It just looks like they are offering there services mostly for non-developers (low-code / no-code) and I couldn't find anything about whether they have an API that I can use from my own code to check for registered users and if they paid etc. EDIT: nevermind, found it: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/3613332/outseta-rest-api-v1/7TNfr6k#intro https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/3613332/outseta-rest-...
heliodor 5y ago
Search for SaaS skeleton or boilerplate. Examples: https://www.saaspegasus.com/ https://www.saaspegasus.com/ https://usegravity.app/ https://usegravity.app/ https://buildasaasappwithflask.com/ https://buildasaasappwithflask.com/ https://bullettrain.co/ https://bullettrain.co/ https://www.saasforge.dev/ https://www.saasforge.dev/ https://nodewood.com/ https://nodewood.com/ https://mernkit.com/ https://mernkit.com/
- valenterry 5y ago
  That all requires me to setup my own infrastructure (such as a database) which I'd like to avoid. Otherwise yeah, the list isn't bad!
  - DanHulton 5y ago
    I can't speak to the others in the list, but I'm building Nodewood, and I have heard this worry from other people as well! Consequently, one of the features I'm working on is a deploy process that can target different cloud providers and set up VMs, managed databases, etc for you. I feel your pain personally, as well, so I built and already have an Ansible script I use to deploy Nodewood.com, but it turns out that Ansible doesn't play well on Windows, so while I'm happy to make it available to customers, I can't really justify making it the default deploy method.

bluedevil2k 5y ago

> as a solo developer it takes considerable time to connect all these together Well hopefully it you’re a developer it doesn’t take that long. I just switched a SaaS to Stripe from PayPal last week and it took less than 30 minutes. These SaaS support tools/websites are increasingly easy to use, making time to market for even a solo dev pretty easy.

kolaente 5y ago

Stripe is incredibly good. And then there's stuff like Laravel Spark which handles all the common stuff like accounts and invoicing.

valenterry 5y ago
Sounds like I have to install/maintain stuff here myself. I wish there was a solution that doesn't require me to have any additional infrastructure...

cspags 5y ago

https://www.outseta.com/ https://www.outseta.com/ is the best tool I've seen that offers everything you listed.

valenterry 5y ago
Wow! That's it! It just looks like they are offering there services mostly for non-developers (low-code / no-code) and I couldn't find anything about whether they have an API that I can use from my own code to check for registered users and if they paid etc. EDIT: nevermind, found it: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/3613332/outseta-rest-api-v1/7TNfr6k#intro https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/3613332/outseta-rest-...

heliodor 5y ago

Search for SaaS skeleton or boilerplate. Examples: https://www.saaspegasus.com/ https://www.saaspegasus.com/ https://usegravity.app/ https://usegravity.app/ https://buildasaasappwithflask.com/ https://buildasaasappwithflask.com/ https://bullettrain.co/ https://bullettrain.co/ https://www.saasforge.dev/ https://www.saasforge.dev/ https://nodewood.com/ https://nodewood.com/ https://mernkit.com/ https://mernkit.com/

valenterry 5y ago
That all requires me to setup my own infrastructure (such as a database) which I'd like to avoid. Otherwise yeah, the list isn't bad!
- DanHulton 5y ago
  I can't speak to the others in the list, but I'm building Nodewood, and I have heard this worry from other people as well! Consequently, one of the features I'm working on is a deploy process that can target different cloud providers and set up VMs, managed databases, etc for you. I feel your pain personally, as well, so I built and already have an Ansible script I use to deploy Nodewood.com, but it turns out that Ansible doesn't play well on Windows, so while I'm happy to make it available to customers, I can't really justify making it the default deploy method.