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Sure, until you find out Stripe is killing accounts wrongfully[0], something that has been happening since a long while. Even the first comment there hints it[1

Sure, until you find out Stripe is killing accounts wrongfully[0], something that has been happening since a long while. Even the first comment there hints it[1]. > It's very difficult to build a standardized solution that just works, so relying on outside software can make your problems worse. I want to see you doing billing without software. Also, Stripe is not available for every country under the Sun because it's U.S. based. Not that Lago isn't, but at least Lago is open source so you just use it locally. -- [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33743750 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33743750 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33744053 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33744053

ThePhysicist 4y ago
Our payment/billing backend is built so that it can support multiple payment providers, as some larger customers e.g. pay by bank transfer. Stripe is just there to store sensitive billing data like credit card numbers and actually charge customers, everything else happens in our backend. Stripe supports that use case well, they e.g. provide web hooks and an event log which you can replay locally to integrate with them, which makes it easy to run your own billing/invoicing logic on top.