Hi folks, I need to add a subscription management solution to our SaaS products that as of today work via invoices.
Hi folks, I need to add a subscription management solution to our SaaS products that as of today work via invoices. I’m aiming at having as less development work as possible.
I’m talking about services like ChargeBee, Recurly, Zoho Subscriptions, Zuora, Chargify, ServiceBot etc..
I’ve looked at many solution, but every of them keeps having some downsides or needs workarounds.
I’ll give you some of the needs:
- automatic pricing hosted pages (at least the checkout for a single plan, and we build the pricing page)
- Support multiple plans for multiple products we have more than one SaaS product)
- free trial without credit card (and without showing the form) but alternatively with (should be switchable)
- free tier without credit card (and without showing the form)
- multi language hosted pages (at least that we can translate them)
- multi currency
- multi company (we have subsidiaries in different countries)
- self service customer portal (manage subscription, payment methods, optionally get invoices)
- Open API for Integration (Push products/plans, get subscriptions/cancellations)
- easy drop-in JS Integration (at least iFrame or redirect)
Do you know of a solution that meets these needs or are you possibly building one like this?
Thanks for hints!
It would help to know what your existing product / framework is.
ChargeBee is very good IMHO, but the prices ramp up pretty quickly. Paddle is also cool with its percentage pricing. But most subscription mgmt products eventually take a pound of flesh.
For this reason I'm a big fan of using Wordpress/Memberpress as part of an MVP. It's super cheap compared to the competition, and it has all the features you list. It's also a mature product, has a sophisticated API and is very stable. It integrates with just about everything: https://memberpress.com/integrations/
Your backend stays the same as it ever was, and just move your front end pages on to Wordpress. Very easy to set up and one of the cheapest / fastest ways to get the job done.
We have different SaaS products, one has no frontend framework at all (basic HTML/JS) and a PHP/.NET backend, the other uses an enterprise CMS... but not Wordpress
Thanks for the hint, it might be helpful for others as well
Hey Valerio,
Try Stripe. It has many features and I hope they cover your requirements. You can do a lot with it. Though it took us a lot of back & forths using at www.designpac.net We're quite familiar with Stripe's APIs & structure.
Thank you - already been looking at Stripe. With them you need to build a lot of the GUI for subscription management yourself
Hey Valerio 🙌,
Check out https://paddle.com/ service. Using it for my SaaS.
Thank you, need to check it out!
It looks like you have very specific requirements so I'll make it short for you: no product on the market will ever meet all your requirements. Having looked at or used several of the products you mention, I'm confident many of them will cover most of your requirements. Now you need to pick which of your requirements are nice to haves rather than must haves.
Thanks, yes, I’m aware of that. I was hoping to find something that lies beyond all the web/producthunt/getapp searches / in the end I will see what criteria I can have our teams sorted out by developing them...
hm.., seems you already looked some of the biggest players for this category of Saas software. If none of them met your needs, a smaller player that you never heard of most likely won't have more features than these big guys. (unless you have very specific niche needs some smaller players might try to fill, but your feature list doesn't seem that niche.).
Thanks / let’s see if the small niche player is yet to be found
I believe that the internet has grown so big that there might be lots of solutions that stay quite undiscovered or have different sales channels
Do you want to schedule a call with us? We can make one for you. Respond back if interested.
Email : partners@deltatechnepal.com
Thank you for the offer / I want to go for a standard solution as much as possible and have the integrations built by our internal team...