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Spreedly. Funding, expanding our horizons, pivoting

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Re: Spreedly. Funding, expanding our horizons, pivoting

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Is this really a pivot? Maybe I'm not seeing it, or I may be blending what I had known (or thought I'd known) was coming for a while anyway - focusing on 'core'. Is there something more I'm missing?

By no means a criticism - great job to hear about the funding, and continued success to you guys!

Re: Spreedly. Funding, expanding our horizons, pivoting

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Why only XML responses? :(

The API has actually been in active use for almost two years, which means it is both battle tested and also showing its age. JSON support is actively planned for v2.

The first link in your article is broken.

Re: Spreedly. Funding, expanding our horizons, pivoting

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The API has actually been in active use for almost two years, which means it is both battle tested and also showing its age. JSON support is actively planned for v2.

The first link in your article is broken.

Fixed! Thanks.

Re: Spreedly. Funding, expanding our horizons, pivoting

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post #4

Is this really a pivot? Maybe I'm not seeing it, or I may be blending what I had known (or thought I'd known) was coming for a while anyway - focusing on 'core'. Is there something more I'm missing? By no means a criticism - great job to hear about the funding, and continued success to you guys!

Hey there. I would say that if you were in a room where 100 people had actually heard of Spreedly 95 of them would have said "Oh yeah, the subscription management guys" If you heard about Spreedly and went to our website the messaging was around managing subscriptions. Core was in a different location. So it's a pivot in that now if you arrive at Spreedly.com all the messaging is around payments in general and not managing subscriptions in particular. But I agree if you've watched us a little more closely you've known Core (now just Spreedly) was where a lot of our attention had been.

Re: Spreedly. Funding, expanding our horizons, pivoting

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Do any of the gateways, accept Indian merchants and also support billing in USD?

Potentially - but there are some tough restrictions in India itself around vaulting cards and reusing them. So not sure how you'd manage that if you're an Indian based merchant.

Re: Spreedly. Funding, expanding our horizons, pivoting

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Spreedly (non-core) customer here. Curious what these changes mean for existing customers. Your post is a good history lesson to bring everyone up to speed, but it lacks details as to how you're handling existing accounts... is Spreedly being deprecated?

Edit: Nvm, finally read the pricing page. Apparently, you're just switching to a metered billing where one of the meters is a payment gateway token. Also each plan-level now includes a limit to the number of cards on file.

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