Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and Saasy

Re:Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly a... by jsankey on Thursday January 19, 2012 @09:54PM (#3488079)

Missing from this analysis is which options are available outside the US. I've tried to quicky figure this out for each provider, please correct me if I'm wrong:

  - Braintree: only if doing 3 million+/year.
  - Chargify: in theory yes, if you can find a merchant provider that accepts you with reasonable terms, which isn't easy.
  - Recurly: "Recurly supports SagePay and PayPal in the U.K. and Ireland, as well as Wirecard throughout the broader European Union."
  - Saasy: Yes.
  - Strip: Not yet.

Although it makes sense to start in the US market, it's getting to the point where all most alternatives are US-centric, and there's a big world of us out here that would also love better payment gateways!

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Re:Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly a... by richardw on Friday January 20, 2012 @04:03AM (#3488860)

I think there's a huge market of non-US startups that would love to find a Stripe equivalent that they could use. Much easier to compete than going head-to-head with the US crowd, whose customers are spoiled for choice.

That's what Shuttleworth in effect did - fulfilled a demand outside the US for a service that US companies couldn't legally fulfil. Got him into space. Not bad.

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Re:Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly a... by lclarkmichalek on Friday January 20, 2012 @03:06AM (#3488769)

Which is precisely why I chose saasy for my web app, being based in the uk. Same goes for tropo vs twillio, until twillio lainched uk sms yesterday.

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Re:Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly a... by mise on Friday January 20, 2012 @06:35AM (#3489133)

And how has your experience been with Sassy?

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Re:Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly a... by Ecio78 on Friday January 20, 2012 @10:13AM (#3489690)

I've just checked their page, featurewise they look like very interesting, but their pricing is far from being cheap: "Pricing is 5.9% plus $.95 or 8.9% flat per order, whichever you prefer. The minimum order fee is $.75 per order."

EDIT: according to http://saasy.com/matrix.php it includes also the merchant fees, unfortunately in their comparison Stripe is not cited

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Re:Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly a... by mise on Friday January 20, 2012 @10:46AM (#3489822)

That sounds like how 2Checkout approach it. They are a reseller of your products/services, and you must state so on your sales page. It's also the reason 2Checkout give that they don't allow 'vendors' to customize their checkout pages.

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Re:Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly a... by mise on Friday January 20, 2012 @06:22AM (#3489110)

I'd also mention 2Checkout.com which offers recurring subscriptions with an API. I use them from Ireland, it just about works, but they lack innovation.

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