RewoHub - (Report #29) Integrating Paddle

Ahoy everyone and happy Monday. RewoHub's 29th iteration comes to an end with another large milestone finished, the subscription system. In the middle of integrating Stripe for the payment system, I've switched to use Paddle due to the insane tax regulations of Europe. Paddles integration was a bit more awkward than Stripe's but after a bit of tinkering, I had it working. We are currently waiting to get the KYC approved from paddle for the production plans. Once they are done, I will send out a tweet.

Results

✅ Add subscription ~limit of 6 months~

Despite waiting for the KYC of Paddle, subscriptions are now fully implemented. Oh, what a happy day. The closer I've got to add a payment option the higher my motivation to do marketing. We now have a simple, monthly recurring subscription system as opposed to the initial "buy each month extra". The latter one I wanted to add just for the MVP until a proper subscription system was in place. Well, with Paddle it was way easier to have a subscription.

✅ Add info to the pricing page that you need to register first

New pricing page, yay! As you see there are now 3 tiers. Everyone starts with the free one.

✅ Refactor pricing page to load plans

Plans are now loaded from the backend, lovely!

✅ Create the initial plan with ~10$~ 15$ per month & 25 users, describe what's included

After a bit of feedback, I've set the price for RewoHub now to 15$ for 25 users and 150$ for up to 250 users in an organization.

✅ Add payment option via ~stripe~ paddle

Right after successfully integrating Stripe I've got a tip that the tax situation in Europe will be hell for me. So I would have to limit the countries able to subscribe to RewoHub. Paddle as an alternative to Stripe was suggested to me, as they already do the required taxes for you for a cut of the share. Since outsourcing issues is fantastic, I've changed the payment system integration to Paddle. The subscription system came included, I love it when they give you batteries for your new toys ❤️.

✅ Send to the top does not remove the existing item until reloading

A small but annoying bug, but now fixed.

✅ Removing users from org, visually clears the whole list. A reload is required to see the other user again.

Shocked when removing one user from an organization and the whole list is gone? Although only a visual bug it's fixed now.

Next

👉 Add a page to see one's subscriptions -> perhaps refactor the payment page
👉 Add a way to cancel subscriptions on a page
👉 Code cleanup in the frontend
👉 Hardening TURN server
👉 Handle subscription canceled events

After such a great iteration let's have another one. I sure love this coding entrepreneur stuff.

Till next time ✌️.

Yours truly, Dodo