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Ask HN: Receiving Payments Outside of USA for SaaS

7 points by dalehurley1 ↗ HN
Hi HN Followers

I love this site and the contributors.

Quick question: When testing a SaaS side project what reoccurring payment systems do you use if you are outside of the USA?

For instance in the US/Canada there is https://stripe.com/

Is there anything similar available to international companies, particularly Australia?

Dale

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t0
https://gumroad.com should be what you're looking for.
dalehurley1
It is interesting - though the details of subscriptions seems to be limited. Changing the subscription looks to be a manual process. Fees are high too, 5% +$.025 per a transaction is very high.
taproot
Word of advice: australians love and trust paypal. (ecom perception)
dalehurley1
Really? Could you please expand on why "Australians love and trust PayPal"?

I thought that there was issues with early stage apps using PayPal which is why the likes of Stripe popped up. Especially around reoccurring payments. I may be wrong.

pathy
I believe he means that the (Australian) customers love PayPal, not the merchants.

It might be a disadvantage for the merchant to use PayPal but the customers in Australia on a whole may prefer PayPal to other payment solutions online. The perception that it is safe or what not. If the customers don't perceive your service as a safe option they probably will not buy your product.

sendloop
Take a look at FastSpring.com

Commission is high compared to alternatives but they handle fraud and invoicing. Their "front-end" pages are highly customisable.