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Chargify user here. Love chargify, hate the merchant account fees I pay each month. For subscription SaaS products, is this now a viable alternative to a mercha
by atldev 14y ago
Chargify user here. Love chargify, hate the merchant account fees I pay each month. For subscription SaaS products, is this now a viable alternative to a merchanct account with a recurring payment service on top?
- pc86 14y agoNo sarcasm intended, but how can you justify paying $65/mo for something like Chargify? Does it offer some value that I'm not seeing on their site?
- MichaelApproved 14y agoI use Recurly, which is similar to all these guys and they have a monthly fee. What makes it with paying is: Easier PCI, prebuilt code to process cards against different merchants and more code that handles the whole billing process which I don't have to write.
- pc86 14y agoThat is a good point; having some code to look at (or even copy) before writing my first ticketing application could have easily saved me a few hundred hours. Still, $65/mo seems a bit much. Best of luck, though.
- cstejerean 14y ago"could have easily saved me a few hundred hours. Still, $65/mo seems a bit much" I'm curious about the scenarios in which saving a few hundred hours is not worth $65/month.
- redguava 14y agoExactly. If you value yourself at $65 p/hour or more, that's a few hundred months of paying Chargify to break even. I am as optimistic about my software product as anyone, but I need the break even point to be sooner than that if I am going to spend the time coding. This is also completely discounting the fact that they probably have a more comprehensive system that you wrote, it's all they do. They keep updating it too.