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Re:Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expens... by nathcd on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:52PM (#25073354)
Is there any downside (other than a little more work for the implementer) to just using their main payment processing API, and to implement subscription billing with a cronjob? This is what sr.ht does [1], at least as of a year ago. If doing it manually now means saving a bunch of money, seems like a no-brainer.

[1] https://cmpwn.com/@sir/103074952842876982

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Re:Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expens... by drchiu on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:29PM (#25073834)
We did that for a couple of SAAS. In fact, we even extracted this out to an internal library with a web UI. If anyone is interested, let me know and I’d be happy to open source it. It’ll have to be run in its own server and process.

But for full disclosure, my latest project just bit the bullet and accepted the extra 0.5%. Wanted to see how it goes. Could always switch if I found the need.

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Re:Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expens... by tomsi on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:22PM (#25075240)
We'd definitely be interested since we are currently evaluating our options
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Re:Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expens... by corentin88 on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:57AM (#25080456)
Interested as well!
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Re:Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expens... by driverdan on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:25PM (#25074453)
The downside is that you have to write and maintain the code and infrastructure to do it. You have to do the math for your business to decide if those costs are lower than the 0.5% fee.
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