Would you use Paddle, Chargebee, Chargify, or just Stripe?

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Paddle

You make some very good points for Paddle. Those make sense for a business that is making money and farther down the road. But what about a business that has no revenue and just starting out? Would using something simple like Stripe checkout be better in that case? maybe when I expand to EU I could look at switching to Paddle?

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Chargebee

I've worked with both naked Stripe and Chargebee + Stripe before. I can highly recommend Chargebee, especially for young companies. It takes a while to get to 50K revenue with a SaaS project, so you have plenty of time to make a decision about whether you want to keep using Chargebee. We decided to stick with them due to the following reasons:

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Chargify

Wondering if you guys would use any of these? Looks like Paddle and Chargify may be pretty expensive so may not be worth it for early stage. But Chargebee does have a free tier up to first $50k in revenue.

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Stripe

As mentioned, we have worked with naked Stripe before, but as much as I love Stripe, the subscription management product of theirs does not even come close to Chargebee's ease of use and customisation features. Stripe is definitely good to get up-and-running quickly, but you're signing up for a lot of lost time on data migration later-on when you need to switch to a more battle-proven subscription management platform.

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Recurly

I had a couple of clients use Recurly and they preferred it because they could swap the Stripe backend out for another payment process. One of them needed to do that when they got kicked off Stripe. Another did it to save money on payment processing once they got to a certain scale.

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PayPal

I think you're simplifying the PayPal checkout too much here. Some people use PayPal enough that they enter a password. For most other people they may have to remember the PayPal email address they signed up with and go through a password reset, OR opt to do a card payment through PayPal. Having to inputt just a password to pay is—I would guess—an edge case.

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Abowire

I have read that your are based in the US. In case, that your main market is in Europe, I can offer you to use Abowire (www.abowire.com), an all-in-one Subscription Management software. I am one of the Co-founders of the startup and we are looking for early adopters (obviosly free of charge) to use our software and help us improve the product. We are based in Berlin.

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Braintree

The value that those services provide is a single solution for both PayPal and Stripe. It's tempting, but paying someone forever like that isn't ideal. I would roll Stripe to start, then implement Braintree for PayPal at a later time.

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Checkout

hmm, I guess my fear is that I would out grow saasify pretty quickly and it wouldn't be worth the work to set up. It isn't too hard to setup Stripe Checkout. They do like all of the ui for you. and then it can be transitioned into something more complex or specific use cases later. How is the transition path for saasify?

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PayHere

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