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A comment on Ask HN: Why every company writes their own billing solution?.

Re:Ask HN: Why every company writes their own billing solution? by codegeek on Monday May 28, 2018 @10:50AM (#17172696)
There are a lot of solutions out there that tackle billing but they may not necessarily be open source. Examples being chargify [0], recurly [1] etc.

A couple of open source solutions that I found are killbill[2], laravel spark [3], bullettrain [4], opensourcebilling [5]. Again, they may not necessarily be 100% free but they are open source.

Also, billing is a very subjective term. Do you mean subscription billing or just plain old invoice type solutions or a combination ? There are tons of invoicing tools like invoiceninja [6] and plenty others.

[0] https://chargify.com

[1] https://recurly.com

[2] https://killbill.io

[3] https://spark.laravel.com (billing plus SAAS)

[4] https://bullettrain.co (billing plus SAAS)

[5] https://opensourcebilling.org

[6] https://invoiceninja.com

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Re:Ask HN: Why every company writes their own billing solution? by caffeinatedwes on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @01:35PM (#17181263)
To add to the list of another non-open source billing solution: Cheddar, https://getcheddar.com. I mentioned it earlier, but another disclaimer: I work there.
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Re:Ask HN: Why every company writes their own billing solution? by xstartup on Monday May 28, 2018 @01:42PM (#17173710)
Thanks. I am looking for SaaS billing.

Killbill seems interesting. But I am unable to add bitcoin plugin in killbill. It seems to be 99% of what I am looking for.

But still this place does need user friendly solution.

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Re:Ask HN: Why every company writes their own billing solution? by seanwilson on Monday May 28, 2018 @08:39PM (#17175618)
Paddle and Fastspring are worth looking at if you want them to deal with EU VAT for you. Neither does Bitcoin as far as I know.

Also, you'll generally have to come up with and integrate your own solution for user management and how your users are linked to subscriptions. Both services above for example assume you have an existing user database.

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