Ask HN: Receiving Payments Outside of USA for SaaS

Posted by dalehurley1 on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @07:34PM
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Hi HN Followers

I love this site and the contributors.

Quick question: When testing a SaaS side project what reoccurring payment systems do you use if you are outside of the USA?

For instance in the US/Canada there is https://stripe.com/

Is there anything similar available to international companies, particularly Australia?

Dale

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Re:Ask HN: Receiving Payments Outside of USA for SaaS by jvvlimme on Thursday August 08, 2013 @07:01AM (#6178185)

https://www.braintreepayments.com/

Haven't used them myself but seen some positive reviews for them.

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Re:Ask HN: Receiving Payments Outside of USA for SaaS by sendloop on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @09:16PM (#6176807)

Take a look at FastSpring.com

Commission is high compared to alternatives but they handle fraud and invoicing. Their "front-end" pages are highly customisable.

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Re:Ask HN: Receiving Payments Outside of USA for SaaS by dictum on Thursday August 08, 2013 @05:50PM (#6182194)

They have a dedicated service for SaaS companies, Saasy (https://saasy.com)

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Re:Ask HN: Receiving Payments Outside of USA for SaaS by workhere-io on Thursday August 08, 2013 @10:27AM (#6179100)

https://www.paymill.com/

Edit: Not sure they support Australia, actually.

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Re:Ask HN: Receiving Payments Outside of USA for SaaS by t0 on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @07:41PM (#6176415)

https://gumroad.com should be what you're looking for.

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Re:Ask HN: Receiving Payments Outside of USA for SaaS by dalehurley1 on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @08:54PM (#6176716)

It is interesting - though the details of subscriptions seems to be limited. Changing the subscription looks to be a manual process. Fees are high too, 5% +$.025 per a transaction is very high.

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Re:Ask HN: Receiving Payments Outside of USA for SaaS by nreece on Thursday August 08, 2013 @05:45PM (#6182164)

Have a look at Pin: https://pin.net.au

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Re:Ask HN: Receiving Payments Outside of USA for SaaS by taproot on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @07:55PM (#6176479)

Word of advice: australians love and trust paypal. (ecom perception)

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Re:Ask HN: Receiving Payments Outside of USA for SaaS by dalehurley1 on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @08:45PM (#6176669)

Really? Could you please expand on why "Australians love and trust PayPal"?

I thought that there was issues with early stage apps using PayPal which is why the likes of Stripe popped up. Especially around reoccurring payments. I may be wrong.

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Re:Ask HN: Receiving Payments Outside of USA for SaaS by pathy on Thursday August 08, 2013 @09:58AM (#6178907)

I believe he means that the (Australian) customers love PayPal, not the merchants.

It might be a disadvantage for the merchant to use PayPal but the customers in Australia on a whole may prefer PayPal to other payment solutions online. The perception that it is safe or what not. If the customers don't perceive your service as a safe option they probably will not buy your product.

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