Congrats to the BillForward team on making it through YC, the product has come on quite a way since it was first announced here a couple of months back [1]
Stripe is great if you want to build it yourself but when you start doing more sophisticated things, multiple pricing plans, tiered pricing, fixed-terms etc your development team will have to spend a lot of time building these tools internally.
BillForward also aims to provide more infrastructure around metrics and general management of subscriptions.
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Isn't Stripe already the Stripe for subscription billing? Reading the docs [1] it's incredibly flexible already.
1. https://stripe.com/docs/subscriptions
BillForward also aims to provide more infrastructure around metrics and general management of subscriptions.
...however support for more payment gateways would be really nice. For example, eWay's Rapid API[1] would mean I could actually use it. :)
[1]: http://www.eway.co.nz/developers/api/overview
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