Chargify vs. Spreedly vs. Cheddargetter: Subscription-Billing Service Prices

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Post by ccg » Thu, Dec 03, 2009, 9:48 PM UTC

Chargify vs. Spreedly vs. Cheddargetter: Subscription-Billing Service Prices
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Re: Chargify vs. Spreedly vs. Cheddargetter: Subscription-Billing Service Prices

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Post by mcav » Thu, Dec 03, 2009, 11:18 PM UTC

I'm using Spreedly; they have a Kickstart program going on which freezes fees at the lesser of 1%/10¢ per transaction, and no monthly fee.

If my math is correct, that makes it cheaper than all except Cheddargetter until 50,000 customers.

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Post by marcguyer » Thu, Dec 03, 2009, 11:39 PM UTC

mcav wrote: post #2

I'm using Spreedly; they have a Kickstart program going on which freezes fees at the lesser of 1%/10¢ per transaction, and no monthly fee. If my math is correct, that makes it cheaper than all except Cheddargetter until 50,000 customers.

If I'm not mistaken, the kickstart is a limited offer and costs you $699 up front. That's difficult to swallow for most bootstrapped startups.

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Post by quilby » Thu, Dec 03, 2009, 11:55 PM UTC

Does anyone know of payment gateways that work with merchants outside the U.S.?

We are based in Israel and are going to launch a subscription based web app soon.

Right now it looks like the only option is to use Google checkout/ Paypal (the basic plan). Both of these send the customer off site and this makes for a slow user experience.

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Post by j_b_f » Fri, Dec 04, 2009, 12:42 AM UTC

What are the advantages to using any of these over the PayPal Direct Payment API? https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_dcc_hub-outside

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Post by jhancock » Fri, Dec 04, 2009, 1:02 AM UTC

Any feedback on braintree? I'm considering them for a new app.

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Post by ccg » Fri, Dec 04, 2009, 1:09 AM UTC

j_b_f wrote: post #5

What are the advantages to using any of these over the PayPal Direct Payment API? https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_dcc_hub-outside

I haven't spent much time looking at PayPal's API, but it looks like that more of a competitor to something like braintree or authorize.net. It's just for processing the payment, right? The services I'm looking at here manage the entire subscription process. Essentially, you're outsourcing your billing system to them so that you don't have to think about things like dealing with the dunning process or prorating the bill if the user upgrades their plan mid-month, etc.

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Post by ccg » Fri, Dec 04, 2009, 1:30 AM UTC

jhancock wrote: post #6

Any feedback on braintree? I'm considering them for a new app.

Braintree is expensive when you're just getting started. Their API is nicer than authorize.net's API, but if you're using a service like Spreedly, it's Spreedly's API you'll be talking to, not Braintree's.

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Post by proee » Fri, Dec 04, 2009, 1:50 AM UTC

What's the advantage of using one of these api's over the api of say the gateway directly like authorize.net? Is it the fact that they are adding more value into the api and making it into more of a framework for managing members?

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Post by gotrythis » Fri, Dec 04, 2009, 3:58 AM UTC

We use www.billingcircle.com and are very happy with the service there. With their API we automatically charge overage fees on top of our monthly fees. Works great.