Developers, are you using Stripe alone, or adding something like ChargeBee to make life easier?
Would love to get an idea of what's working in this space, as I'm getting ready to add in billing to my app.
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Would love to get an idea of what's working in this space, as I'm getting ready to add in billing to my app.
Stripe has wonderful API. Use it directly.
Things get complicated if you want to add PayPal (in this case, Chargebee could be your best option, don't use Braintree directly)
Stripe-only, ProfitWell for reporting. Still doing a lot of things manually because it hasn't become so painful that I feel the need to automate it (such as manually flagging accounts as delinquent, vs. implementing the stripe webhook stuff).
Implementing Stripe webhooks shouldn't take more than two days. I've done it before, and it was easy :)
I've done it before as well in other projects, I just put stuff off until it's necessary.
Two days of development on Stripe web hooks is two days away from developing customer facing functionality. If I were manually processing stuff every single day, it'd make sense, but with maybe one interaction a month, it's just not painful enough.
Yup, makes sense. As long as you are the only one running everything. For us it wasn't an option, because support was handling refunds in Stripe, and I wanted to make sure we canceled users subscription in our backend when that happened.