I highly recommend http://spreedly.com . Has a great API and recurring billing is built-in so you don't need to pay extra for it on PayPal or Authorize.
Looks great. Thanks for the pointer.
Ask HN: A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas?
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Re: Ask HN: A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas?
#12I recommend Braintree http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/, having build payment systems on top of paypal payflow pro, paypal express checkout, and Braintree. Their API is far more sane, and their vault system is convenient. Plus they'll let you get your data back out if you ever need to switch. Make sure to ask anyone who would be storing CCNs for you if they have a portability policy. Otherwise, you only get to choose once for the life of your company.
Note: I haven't checked out spreedly yet, but I've heard similarly good things.
Re: Ask HN: A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas?
#13I recommend Braintree http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/ , having build payment systems on top of paypal payflow pro, paypal express checkout, and Braintree. Their API is far more sane, and their vault system is convenient. Plus they'll let you get your data back out if you ever need to switch. Make sure to ask anyone who would be storing CCNs for you if they have a portability policy. Otherwise, you only get…
The Braintree API wasn't too hard hard to integrate with, but their web interface for configuration and management is pretty ugly and unintuitive. I especially dislike how they share test instances between multiple customers. Their customer support is really responsive and helpful though.
I wrote a quick Rails plugin to interface with the recurring payments with Braintree. It doesn't implement all or their API's, but it's enough to handle monthly recurring billing for Outspokes. I pushed it up to github in case anyone finds it useful. Let me know if anything's confusing about it. I'll polish it up when I have more free time.
Re: Ask HN: A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas?
#14Amazon Flexible Payment Service (FPS) is a good option as well. In addition to recurring payments, FPS also supports aggregated payments for micro-transactions.
If you want the cheapest solution, you might want to try Noca (www.noca.com) which supports recurring transactions but everything happens through ACH and hence it has its own set of hassles.
Re: Ask HN: A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas?
#15I highly recommend http://spreedly.com . Has a great API and recurring billing is built-in so you don't need to pay extra for it on PayPal or Authorize.
I'm checking this out too, looks pretty great so far. Thanks for the heads up!
Re: Ask HN: A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas?
#16Just for the sake of completeness:
http://chargify.com/
Haven't tried it yet, but looks similar to spreedly.
Re: Ask HN: A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas?
#17If you don't want to deal with Amazon FPS, you can implement Amazon's Simple Pay subscriptions: https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business?sn=paynow/sub...
Re: Ask HN: A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas?
#18I recommend NMI.com. They are a payment gateway and alternative to Auth.net. Their API and admin console is great.
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#20Another option for recurring/subscription billing - Aria Systems http://www.AriaSystems.com. Aria has been in this space since 2003 and the platform is very powerful and very customizable. Also, Aria works with customers of all sizes - including startups.