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I encourage anyone who needs something like this to check out Spreedly (www.spreedly.com). We use them for the Ars Premier subscriptions and they're fantastic,
by mrkurt 17y ago
I encourage anyone who needs something like this to check out Spreedly (www.spreedly.com). We use them for the Ars Premier subscriptions and they're fantastic, don't kill us with fees, and have a really nice API.
3% of transactions on top of the credit card fees is pretty nuts.
- bluebird 17y agoChargify changres nothing for the first 50 clients and then I think it is a flat fee if I am not mistaken. That can be cheaper than Spreedly. Recurly seems to be doing something similar. What does make a difference is that Spreedly is not PCI compliant. Both Chargify and Recurly are PCI compliant.
- nreece 17y agoChargify only supports Authorize.net, whereas Spreedly and Recurly support a few more options. I think Spreedly has by-far the most reasonable and economical pricing structure for lean startups.
- dangrossman 17y agoI've been evaluating all of these companies and I agree, Spreedly is the most startup-friendly. Not only in pricing, but they also have the broadest gateway support. Unfortunately their admission that they may not be PCI compliant is a legal issue... if you read that, and pass cardholder information to them, you could be in breach of your merchant agreement and have no way to really know. Spreedly also seems to be a side project that isn't getting the developer time it needs considering the sensitivity of what the product is. They have threads in their support area where they promised features a year ago and still haven't delivered.
- raghus 17y agoSpreedly updated their pricing recently: http://blog.spreedly.com/2009/11/12/improved-spreedly-pricing http://blog.spreedly.com/2009/11/12/improved-spreedly-pricin...
- mrkurt 17y agoOh, yes. The 3% was in reference to Recurly.