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pamonrails

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About pamonrails

Co-founder of Kill Bill, the open-source subscription billing and payments platform (https://killbill.io/)

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    Comment #40667471

    Pierre from Kill Bill here. This sounds like something that is be supported out of the box. I'm not sure I understand why the Stripe plugin needs to be rewritten, but feel free to …

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    Comment #33266684

    It really depends on your usecase, but some benefits: * Lower cost (just pay for payment processing, not the subscription features) * Ability to integrate with multiple gateways (t…

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    Comment #33266477

    FYI this is just a managed sandbox, to test things out. We don't offer Kill Bill aaS, as it goes against our value proposition (Kill Bill is a framework to build your own internal …

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    Comment #33266443

    No fake marketing :-)

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    Comment #33266398

    FWIW the very vast majority of our users are integrated with either Adyen, Braintree, or Stripe (all open-source plugins). I know of ~20 integrations with more advanced gateways/pr…

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    Comment #33266321

    Fair. That being said, we've come a long way by now. Lots of our users deploy Kill Bill in "cloud-native" environments these days (e.g. k8s). Also, we've deprecated JRuby support. …

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    Comment #33266261

    We don't follow SemVer (yet?). We use even minor versions for LTS releases (e.g. 0.22.x) and odd versions for dev releases (e.g. 0.23.x). Kill Bill is very much stable now :-)

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    Comment #32863243

    Kill Bill (note: I'm a co-founder) provides payment routing capabilities, so you can integrate with multiple providers (e.g. Stripe + Adyen) and shift payment traffic to go through…

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    Comment #25081540

    If you are looking to manage subscriptions outside of Stripe, but keep using Stripe for payment processing, take a look at Kill Bill, the open-source subscription billing & payment…

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    Comment #22793175

    It sounds like you are looking for an entitlement system[1]? In my experience, none of the SaaS providers mentioned help you with this, probably because it's very dependent on your…

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    Comment #22793084

    This is a bit of shameless plug, but if you are looking to manage subscriptions outside of Stripe, and simply use Stripe for payment processing, take a look at Kill Bill, the open-…

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    Comment #22373874

    Take a look at open-source solutions, specifically Kill Bill [1] (disclaimer, I'm a core contributor) It provides a subscription management platform with all the features you would…

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    Comment #18626058

    @pierre from Kill Bill here. Back in the days, we tried very hard to have a good native integration with the blockchain for recurring payments (see the "Extension for BIP-0070 to s…

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    Comment #18626033

    @pierre from Kill Bill here. First, regarding maintaining plugins in general, the project is over 7 years old now. We have everything from very small to very big companies using us…

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    Comment #12188073

    Here is the 2016 version: http://killbill.io/blog/having-fun-with-docker-stripe-and-ki... ;-)

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    Comment #12164783

    I'll echo what others said: run your own. Using a SaaS-based recurring billing solution has its drawbacks: * You are limited by the features offered by the provider for your pricin…

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    Comment #11954309

    We do a lot of migrations from custom systems or SaaS integrations to Kill Bill (open-source subscription billing and payments platform) [0] and we've summarized our strategy and u…

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    Comment #11591626

    Have you considered managing the subscriptions yourself? With Kill Bill[0], you can own the subscription piece while still delegating payments to PayPal and/or Stripe. [0] http://k…

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    Comment #9304872

    Removing support for credit cards in Kill Bill: http://killbill.io/blog/deprecating-support-debit-credit-car...

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    Comment #8684938

    There are third-party solutions which can take care of tax calculations for you - these can be plugged into Kill Bill. One of the main core values of Kill Bill is that you own your…