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Re:Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with... by fastball on Monday August 22, 2022 @08:02PM (#32558899)
We tried to use Paddle for our company but back when we were trialling them they didn't even have a dev environment (their suggestion was to create free products in production mode and use those to test dev/staging).

At that point I nope'd out of there and moved to Stripe.

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Re:Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with... by Silhouette on Monday August 22, 2022 @08:22PM (#32559048)
Looks like they do now have a separate sandbox system similar to other payment services.

https://developer.paddle.com/getting-started/c052e9e8d265f-w...

But elsewhere they also still seem to recommend doing things involving your production site for testing purposes. That seems like it's probably a bad idea that could be risky if anything goes wrong and possibly mess up things like reporting and compliance even if everything "works".

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Re:Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with... by steve_taylor on Monday August 22, 2022 @08:31PM (#32559125)
I've been using their sandbox environment quite successfully for the last few months. Their main competitor, FastSpring, doesn't have a sandbox yet.

There's another interesting competitor that uses Stripe: https://getrevin.com. Their pricing is cheaper than Paddle, making them the cheapest I've seen so far. Not sure if they're any good, though.

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Re:Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with... by 12907835202 on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @04:43AM (#32562111)
Just looked at fastspring. Their pricing page is horrendous: https://fastspring.com/pricing/

I want to get some idea of how much it's going to cost but they dance around the issue completely.

All they do is recommend jumping on a call, which judging by the language on their site, will sound alot like talking to a stereotypical used car salesman.

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