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Migrate to Stripe Billing from Chargebee

Today, we have launched our new Chargebee to Stripe Billing migration service! :tada:

We took a poll last year regarding the subscription billing system that is used most commonly by SaaS companies. Stripe and Chargebee came out to be the top two voted systems. This might not be a surprise, but upon further research, it turns out that most SaaS businesses who use Chargebee, use Stripe as the payment gateway. Here is the big gotcha, most SaaS founders and devs that we have talked to, are unaware that Stripe Billing is a product of Stripe and Stripe Billing is a direct competitor of Chargebee.

Stripe Billing was released mid-2018 and it was framed as a subscription billing system on top of Stripe. Using Stripe Billing + Chargebee together is like paying for two of the same car.

QUESTION: Who is currently using Chargebee alongside Stripe? Did you know Stripe Billing does everything Chargebee does?

Can you please review this new landing page we've put together and comment with your thoughts?
https://www.servicebot.io/migrate-to-stripe-billing-from-chargebee

, Founder of Icon for Billflow
Billflow
on January 29, 2020
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    Ohh I like the slider at the bottom. Good stuff!

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      Thanks, @nickchuckwalter! We actually just launched a page just for the calculator. Feel free to check it out: https://www.servicebot.io/migrate-to-stripe-billing-calculator :)

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      Yea, we were thinking of putting that on its own landing page

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    Does Stripe Billing support PayPal?

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      Hi @mklueh! Stripe does not support PayPal. Is that what your team is currently using?

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        No, but that´s a reason not to migrate to Stripe Billing if you want PayPal in combination with Stripe

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          You wouldn't be able to use PayPal in combination with Stripe. There's no integration. They are both payment processors that handle one time payments, invoicing, as well as recurring payments. The biggest difference lies in the functionalities that are provided by each. Stripe has an abundance of products that you don't get from PayPal such as fraud management, SQL-based business intelligence, etc.

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            Yes and that´s a reason to stay with Chargebee and not to migrate to Stripe Business, because they support PayPal and Stripe together

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              But why would you want to use two different companies, when one handles a lot more, at a lower cost? It's completely counterintuitive. You would never use Paypal and Stripe in combination with each other. Chargebee just does the same job that Stripe Billing and Braintree do. Why would you substitute those two for a third-party app that doesn't even handle the payment processing themselves?

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                Because some customers would rather pay by logging into their Paypal account and clicking the button instead of having to find and get out their credit card. I for example, memorized my Paypal email & password but not my CC.

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    What's your opinion on using Braintree?

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    Love this - how does your billing work for you? So I would pay stripe their normal transaction fee + billing fee and then a fee to you for your product?

    Great landing page design btw!

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      Thank you, @Hellboy!
      That is correct, our pricing is gated based on revenue and is separate from Stripe fees.
      Do you have a SaaS product?

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