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The Terms of Service speak for themselves. . Who in their right mind as a developer would integrate with a service that by its own admission cannot be consider
by catfish 18y ago
The Terms of Service speak for themselves. .
Who in their right mind as a developer would integrate with a service that by its own admission cannot be considered secure, does not guarantee its service, can shut you off for any reason, has no liability if in doing so causes your business to fail, and can change its TOS as it sees fit and you agree to any change they might make in advance.
When Lawyers and Accountants start running your business, you might as well get the bankruptcy documents rolling.
Just a few of the idiotic terms are listed below. To see the complete list of reasons why you should not do business with these guys, go here:
https://spreedly.com/info/terms-of-service/ https://spreedly.com/info/terms-of-service/
# Spreedly has the right to modify or terminate the Service at any time, without notice.
# Spreedly has the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason.
# You bear all risk for your use of the service.
# Spreedly does not warrant that the service will be available or reliable.
# Spreedly does not warrant that the service will provide accurate data.
# Spreedly does not warrant that the subscriptions that you offer through the Service will meet the expectations of your subscribers.
# Spreedly bears no liability for any losses of any kind that you may incur through the use of the Service.
#Besides credit card information (which is encrypted), no information that Spreedly stores is guaranteed to be secure.
But they do guarantee that they will bill you once a month and you get a full 2 weeks to audit that bill, and if its wrong and its 2 weeks and a day later, that's just tough luck.
Nice.......
- ntalbott 18y agoWelcome to the state of TOS in the payment services industry. I agree, it's pretty yucky, but every single upstream provider that Spreedly uses (PayPal, Authorize.net, etc.) has similar terms that are as or even more non-committal. Because of that, and because we're not in a position (yet?) to buck the trend, we've stuck with the party line for now. Even Shopify (http://shopify.com http://shopify.com), who is perhaps even more critical to the businesses on their platform, has basically the same set of terms. Now, while legally there's not much we can do, on a practical level we're a support-centric organization that totally understands that our clients are building their businesses on us and that we have to be reliable. Our income is directly tied to our clients income, so we have all kinds of incentive to make sure that the service is always up and ready to collect payment. Also, because of the way Spreedly works, you can quickly build a layer of simple caching in to your application that will ensure that even if we were down for some reason your site would still be up and serving existing clients. I hope this helps explain. I know it's not the most satisfactory answer ever, but it's an honest one based on where we (and the industry) are at this point.