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I so wish Stripe would stop ignoring a number of countries and make their billing available there (Poland is an example). I am stuck with Braintree and it is not a happy ride.
Poland is currently in private beta. You can request invite here: https://stripe.com/global#PL
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I've done it both ways. My last company processed >$100MM/yr of tshirts, split between Stripe and PayPal. Stripe was wonderful; PayPal was hell. It required a lot of engineering effort to build and maintain the system, even as simple purchases (no subscriptions). But if you're selling impulse buys online, PayPal is required. Current company is B2B SaaS, smaller team, and I said "no freaking way" to PayPal. Built the…
Out of interest, why did you go down the avenue of hacking together your own system to handle subscriptions? Surely you've limited yourself like you've said you have to build out every time you want to attach another payment method like paypal - Is this not more expensive than looking into a Merchant of Record handling these complexities for you?
I can only imagine the elevated pain of abstracting across multiple subscription systems. Ouch.
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I've done it both ways. My last company processed >$100MM/yr of tshirts, split between Stripe and PayPal. Stripe was wonderful; PayPal was hell. It required a lot of engineering effort to build and maintain the system, even as simple purchases (no subscriptions). But if you're selling impulse buys online, PayPal is required. Current company is B2B SaaS, smaller team, and I said "no freaking way" to PayPal. Built the…
How did you go about implementing a referral program in Stripe?
I scan recent invoice history periodically to keep Credits up to date. Payouts are via PayPal masspay. Spends (using credit balance to offset their SaaS bill) are created on the invoice.created webhook, which adds a corresponding negative line item to the invoice.
I considered doing everything in Stripe - you can add pending invoice items instead of credits and payouts, then 'spends' are just the natural processing of bills - but it would have been very difficult to get analytics (eg, total outstanding payout liability).
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Out of interest, why did you go down the avenue of hacking together your own system to handle subscriptions? Surely you've limited yourself like you've said you have to build out every time you want to attach another payment method like paypal - Is this not more expensive than looking into a Merchant of Record handling these complexities for you?
There must be some sort of miscommunication here. My (SaaS) subscription system is vanilla Stripe without abstraction. My (single-purchase, tshirt) system was an abstraction across Stripe and PayPal. I can only imagine the elevated pain of abstracting across multiple subscription systems. Ouch.