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Re:Stripe refunds: fees from the original charge are not ret... by mercwear on Thursday February 20, 2020 @08:58AM (#22375075)
I have migrated 2 companies away from internal billing systems (one went to Stripe and the other went to Chargify). The amount of hacks that went into maintaining these internal systems was shocking. One company literally devised its own currency to deal with the complexity.

Managing and developing your own billing system is a almost always a bad idea, no matter how big your company is. There is a high likelihood that you will end up running a business within a business if you go that route.

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Re:Stripe refunds: fees from the original charge are not ret... by ativzzz on Friday February 21, 2020 @10:29PM (#22389221)
Yea it depends on the technological competencies of the company. I have a friend who works at a company who implemented their own, and they seem to be doing fine, but you hit the nail on the head saying

> you will end up running a business within a business if you go that route.

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