Implementing API Billing with Stripe

Post by athrun » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 5:06 AM UTC

chrsstrm wrote: post #55

kwindla wrote: post #50

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Our experience is that manual invoices are charged right away. I wonder what's different about our setups? The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is webhooks that aren't responding, which would delay the invoice closing. But I think that would make the delay 72 hours, rather than 24.

I misspoke, it's 1 hour, not 24. Can be found here [0]. Regardless, the upgrade happens _before_ the customer is charged, so unless you put a hold on your system and wait for that invoice to close, you're still giving them access before they've paid (Stripe's system will shown them as having the new upgraded plan before the invoice closes). And with the charge re-tries and back-off they use, if your webhooks aren't l…

Post by StudentStuff » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 6:15 AM UTC

WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #57

spookthesunset wrote: post #46

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> Vendor lock-in isn't a good plan I'll take vendor lockin over being locked into a bunch of homebrew garbage that some former developer managed to sucker the entire company into creating because of "vendor lockin". So many times engineers come up with fears about "vendor lockin" and forget how easy it is to lock the company into an unsupported, half-baked homebuilt product that has nothing to do with the company's c…

Spoken like someone who hasn't had a vendor disappear and have your entire implementation on their platform vanish.

Post by enraged_camel » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 7:03 AM UTC

mduvall wrote: post #53

aboutruby wrote: post #18

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They often offer either the simple option or the custom-built option basically: - Stripe Checkout ( https://stripe.com/docs/checkout ) vs implementing your custom credit card form and using the API directly ( https://stripe.com/docs/charges ) - Standard, Express, Custom options for Stripe Connect (e.g. take money from someone and give it to someone else): https://stripe.com/docs/connect/accounts

Hi from Stripe! We are currently working on a new version of our Checkout product[0] and would love feedback. We are working on making the simplest drop-in integration to get up and running on Stripe, and we support Stripe Billing! Send me any thoughts you have (matt at stripe). [0] https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout

Post by kowdermeister » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 9:25 AM UTC

stevoski wrote: post #66

Stripe's "getting started" documentation, as well as this article, show us how easy it is to get started with Stripe - if you ignore the existence of taxation. The article is completely missing any mention of tax, be it sales tax or VAT. This is my biggest complaint of Stripe. For a lot of us, we live in countries where we simply _have_ to start collecting and remitting tax from the very first customer.

Post by sudhirj » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 9:44 AM UTC

stevoski wrote: post #66

Stripe's "getting started" documentation, as well as this article, show us how easy it is to get started with Stripe - if you ignore the existence of taxation. The article is completely missing any mention of tax, be it sales tax or VAT. This is my biggest complaint of Stripe. For a lot of us, we live in countries where we simply _have_ to start collecting and remitting tax from the very first customer.