

are said to make life easier when dealing with recurring billing.


Additionally, services like Chargebee, Recurly, Chargify, etc. I am seeking inspiration on creating a billing & subscription stack and came across this wonderful website and community.įrom what I understood so far, I need something like Stripe or Braintree to collect payments without dealing with PCI compliance or setting up merchant accounts, etc. I think unless you expect a bit number of payments using cryptocurrencies it's not worth implementing this solution, and better to accept them manually. The documentation and integration is much more painful than with Stripe IMO, I can't recommend them for that, but not having it is basically dodging potential sales.įinally we more recently added support of BitPay for #Bitcoin and BitcoinCash payments, which was a pretty easy process but not worth the time in the end due to the low usage and the always changing conditions of the network: the transaction fees got huge after price raise and bitcoin because unusable for small payments, they then introduced support for BCH and a newer Bitcoin protocol for lower fees, but then you need a special wallet to pay and in the end it's too cumbersome, even for bitcoin users, to pay with it. This was pretty well received and we're currently receiving about 25% of our purchases from PayPal. We then added support for PayPal which is pretty popular for people who have money on it and don't know where to spend it (it can make it feel like you're spending less when it comes from PayPal wallet), or for people who prefer not to enter a credit card on a new website. Their service is of awesome quality: the UI is gorgeous, the integration is easy, the documentation is great, the API is super stable and well thought. To accept payments on updown.io, we first added support for Stripe which is by far the most popular payment gateway for startups and for a good reason.
