Show HN: Subscription Billing for Developers and Startups
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Show HN: Subscription Billing for Developers and Startups
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Re: Show HN: Subscription Billing for Developers and Startups
#2So, other than having a free tier, how is this different from ChargeBee, Recurly, or Peakium?
Re: Show HN: Subscription Billing for Developers and Startups
#3So, other than having a free tier, how is this different from ChargeBee, Recurly, or Peakium?
Hey there, one of the BillForward founders here.
Our goal is to enable any company to bill how they want without hassle or constraints of building out a full subscription stack. Billing models such as tiered/volume pricing and usage billing can get complex but we make them very simple to use. You can often implement these features in places such as Stripe et al but often the minutiae becomes complex. We built the product that can scale from a simple flat price all the way up to composite price plans with tiered/volume pricing.
Re: Show HN: Subscription Billing for Developers and Startups
#4So, other than having a free tier, how is this different from ChargeBee, Recurly, or Peakium?
How they are different from each other? :)
Re: Show HN: Subscription Billing for Developers and Startups
#5If I understand correctly, the deal here is "get a higher level 'Stripe', pay an additional 1% transaction fee" (above $10K+ total transactions).
Re: Show HN: Subscription Billing for Developers and Startups
#6https://docs.billforward.net/ was unavailable for me (Chrome on OS X)
Re: Show HN: Subscription Billing for Developers and Startups
#7Nicely executed, but as a developer I don't understand the value proposition. Especially when it's so easy to do all this stuff. Maybe it's for non developers?
Re: Show HN: Subscription Billing for Developers and Startups
#8Aside from one major flaw [0], I really liked the website. Great use of humor, great pricing, cleanly designed, and I can see clear benefits over other products.
Then I went to sign up and it all came apart. Firstly, I didn't get the email that I was supposed to (even after waiting a while.) Then, I went to sign in, figuring that I didn't need the email anyway. Once I did this, I was greeted with a confusing screen: what the heck is a Unit of Measure? I couldn't find any information on what it was anywhere, including with Google, so I went back and tried to set up a payment gateway. I chose PayPal. For that, I apparently have to email the help account to "discuss integration". So I tried Braintree, Balanced, CyberSource, Authorize.Net - all the same story. Boom, I've already hit several major roadblocks.
Contrast this with https://snappycheckout.com/, which was really easy to set up, and I've had a great experience overall with it.
[0] The only flaw I saw was that I didn't know what my users would see. Would they see a standard form, as with Snappy Checkout or Stripe, or would I pass credit card details to your service with my own form and you handle the rest?
[edit] Still no email, two hours after signing up.
Re: Show HN: Subscription Billing for Developers and Startups
#9What does it do? I'm confused. Do I get a form or do I still have to build that? You should answer these questions.
Re: Show HN: Subscription Billing for Developers and Startups
#10If I understand correctly, the deal here is "get a higher level 'Stripe', pay an additional 1% transaction fee" (above $10K+ total transactions).
thats correct, BillForward offers a deeper subscription stack making it easier and faster to start billing and handling upgrades, downgrades, switch plans etc....