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Ask HN: SaaS Billing?

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Hey everyone!

As title says, looking for billing for a new saas.

My research has given me a list of stripe, Mollie, Adyen, braintree and cardinity.

multiple payment types/options is obviously a requirement, and paypal in there would be absolute plus.

Is there any other suggestion? I would love to use maybe a new up and comer, perhaps even ran by someone here on hackernews.

grateful for some suggestions, have an awesome day!

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ezekg
I personally use Stripe, but I think https://chargebee.com supports PayPal and others. I've heard good things about them but have yet to use them myself outside of Zapier.
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thank you ezekg!
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jesus, chargebee site says so much, yet so little. gonna take an hour to read and figure out what they actually trying to sell. wow.

thank you for the suggestion though :)

hurry
I'm working on paylent.com in this space. Happy to connect!
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your site is not loading, tried with vpn (sweden, uk, netherlands), no luck.
dbbk
Are you a solo developer? If so, go straight to Paddle and don't look any further. They're a merchant of record so will relieve you from having to deal with tax and VAT.

They support a number of payment methods including PayPal.

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awesome, thank you!
Irongirl1
routable.com is what i'm looking at if i ever get the darn thing built...
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interesting, but i hate the "request demo" or chat to us stuff. im too introverted for that.

good luck with your project!

samirageb
Experience w/Chargebee and it's quite robust. You'll still need a payment gateway Stripe/Braintree/Paypal as they don't do CC processing (CB does integrate with them), but if you need subscription management, coupons, etc. there's a lot that CB does.
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interesting, will check them out!
clorohk
FastSpring https://fastspring.com/ and Gumroad https://gumroad.com/ are two more alternatives to Paddle you can look into. Both handle VAT for you which makes global sales so much easier (worth it in my opinion for the higher rate you pay, but that depends on your project)
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great, thank you.