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Stripe Billing — Billing and subscriptions for fast-growing businesses
The most ambitious companies design billing around customer experience. Stripe Billing is a new set of tools to build and scale your recurring business model.
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Alessandro Tesoro
This is so beautiful congrats! I wish EU VAT MOSS was handled by Stripe, without it, I can't use Stripe :(
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@themesdepot i just wanted to ask. so this is not handled by stripe? so its also useless for me :(
@neuling2k as far as I know, it doesn't. This is a big pain point for a lot of people and many are switching to FastSpring because it acts as a reseller so you don't have to handle it. There was also a thread on indiehackers opened by a Stripe co-founder and it was mentioned they'd be looking it, but nothing more.
@themesdepot yes Stripe, if you are listening fix EU VAT MOSS once and for all! Billing without MOSS support is useless in EU.
Disclaimer: Octobat co-founder here.
We've built the missing part about EU VAT. Feel free to ask if you have any questions about VAT, I'd be happy to help ;-).
@themesdepot @hjuskewycz totally agree. Wish Strip will handle VAT along with payments/subscriptions and act as a reseller like @fastspring & @PaddleHQ. This would truly make life easier for so many SaaS startups & other software vendors in EU. I have asked Strip support about this issue few times in the past, but they neither confirmed nor denied about this feature availability in the future. I just want to get paid at the end of the day for my software like in Apple App Store. Nobody wants to handle/maintain/charge all the different (20+) EU VATs themselves or use additional third party services like @avalara etc just to handle taxes/VAT.
@noahmp, is the 0.4% fee for Stripe Billing added to Stripe's usual 2.9% transaction fee? It's not super clear.
@noahmp @joshuaanderton Stripe cofounder added some good insight here: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...
@jasoncrawford I needed it one day ago... I just updated pricing yesterday and it would have been a good time to upgrade to the new API. Instead it's now at the bottom of my ever growing backlog list in Trello.
This fucking legit. Definitely going to utilize this when I move to a subscription model for my startup. Well done team!
@jeir Shopify don't do native subscriptions. Third party addons like Bold King and Recharge do, but will manage subscription lifecycle themselves.
This is huge for new SaaS businesses (and a bad day if you're a company building subscription billing on top of Stripe). Stripe has been (unfortunately) very limited in supporting non-trivial subscription billing that's common in SaaS businesses, like per-seat pricing on different plans, etc. Looks like they've got all the pieces and more now.
@philfreo I agree! Not the easiest to translate to, if you have a huge block of subscription-based code. I'm going to leave it be myself, for now. Looks legit though :)
What's amazing about this release is that they haven't actually announced anything new ... many of these features they rolled out many moons ago but this marketing launch was so well timed and executed it made it look like a completely new product though some of the basics have been there since subscriptions v1. Congrats Stripe team!
Super exciting and something we could definitely use. Is it available only in the US now or is it something we could consider for our markets in Mexico as well?
Amazing! It's frustrating that 25% of all online purchases in Brazil use boleto bancário. This makes it difficult for us to give up national gateways and switch to Stripe.
Doesn't seem to support defining the price of a plan, based on the customer's subscription.
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For example:
Plan A - $6 / month / unit (default Price)
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Customer subscribers to Plan A, but pays $5.50 / month / unit
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And no, discounts don't really work because you cannot discount per unit. Chargabee and other subscription services handle this use case perfectly fine.
I'm gathering that... we can bill now via Stripe hosted checkout links?
This is the difference, yeah?
Pretty significant change as we can now skip custom code or 3rd party software. Wonder if there's anything I'm missing :)