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Billing with Stripe
- dustineichler 15y agoI love Railscasts, but this seems a little premature even by Rbates standards or popularity. Generally, Railscasts revolve around industry standards. I'm not saying Stripe won't be, it probably will... but man, this is some front running.
- d3x 15y agoI just integrated stripe on http://i.crowdfunded.it http://i.crowdfunded.it last week. Super awesome and easy to use.
- aculver 15y agoMy bare minimum recurring expense with Braintree is $130/mo. That's our largest recurring expense. What's wonderful about Stripe is that there is no "minimum" service charge. If you don't do a lot of transactions, you don't pay a lot of fees. That makes it very low risk to spin up a service and give it a little time to see if it works. When I've talked to people with day jobs about their SaaS side-projects, it's common to hear people aiming for "an extra $500 a month." That's a respectable goal for a side-project, considering that sort of money could trim most people's mortgages by a decade or more, but it makes Braintree (developer friendly as they are) a huge expense. Thankfully for me Braintree was one of the first payment gateways to promote the idea of data portability, so getting my subscribers into Stripe from Braintree should not be a huge hassle.
- damoncali 15y agoDoes this fact cause you any concern over stripe's decision to serve small companies for whom 130 dollars is a significant amount over large customers who will be turned off by their percentage fees? My main resistance to switching to stripe is that I can't figure out how they are going to make any money. I'd like the extra 130 dollars each month, too, but will it last?
- pc 15y agoWe don't quite see it that way. Large companies, processing millions a year, use Stripe too.
- thegdb 15y agoA company for whom $130 is significant today is not necessarily a company for whom $130 is significant tomorrow. One thing we want to do is lower the barrier to people trying out their ideas, and for those ideas that turn out well we've gained a large customer. For those that don't go well we (and our user) basically break even. And as well as being a home for the casual weekend project, we have a number of users processing millions of dollars a year.
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- marcamillion 15y agoTestament to how easy and well-done Stripe's API is, that Ryan can make a 16 minute Railscast about it's integration.
- LaunchAlready 15y agoIt's very neat and simple. Would love to see some one do a python or a php version.
- d3x 15y agoStripe has an API for PHP and Python. https://stripe.com/api https://stripe.com/api
- PostOnce 15y agoI tested out Stripe last weekend. It's really, really simple. You can be up and running and billing shit inside of an hour, HTML and all, depending on how quick you are. The tutorial is dead simple and so are the docs. You should go check it out, if you're interested. You'll see that there's really no need to wait for a video. (I set stripe up in both PHP and Python, did the HTML and CSS and everything in a couple of hours. Was easy. I like things to be easy. -- Now I just need something to charge for... :P)
- Kellster 15y agoImplemented it over the weekend for http://stiffs.com http://stiffs.com - easy, solid, and way, WAY better than authorize.net or the like.
- tren 15y agoVery easy to integrate, so far we've had no problems at all. I've been recommending stripe to any startup looking for a payment solution.
- fastspring 15y agoMissing various elements that most SaaS companies need or will need; API-based vs. UI with complete functionality; lots of development work still necessary to have the type of e-commerce subscription management infrastructure that a serious company needs. Cant work with non-US clients. A comparison between SaaSy.com and other services which illustrates some of the missing global subscription e-commerce functionality: http://bit.ly/nSKT7J http://bit.ly/nSKT7J
- thibaut_barrere 15y agoI can't wait for them to come to Europe, really.
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- hoopti 15y agoDoes anyone know why I should not use stripe as compared to Braintree, etc.? Is there a fundamental issue, that I have missed, or is most of the discussion surrounding price and volume.... as it stands, it seems like a no-brainer to use stripe for any new projects.