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lago
Open Source Metering and Usage Based Billing API ⭐️ Consumption tracking, Subscription management, Pricing iterations, Payment orchestration & Revenue analytics
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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stigg-example-todos
Headless pricing plans to launch pricing faster and make changes without engineering support
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
Seems like every time there's a negative Stripe story on here, the inevitable question, "any alternatives?" gets asked. Hell, I was tempted to ask myself. Instead, I decided to search hn.algolia.com to see for myself what others have recommended in the past.
Might as well share the list with y'all, make it meta.
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2Checkout | https://www.2checkout.com
Adyen | https://www.adyen.com
Amazon Pay | https://pay.amazon.com
Authorize.net | https://www.authorize.net
Balance | https://www.getbalance.com
Braintree | https://www.braintreepayments.com
ChargeBee | https://www.chargebee.com
Chargify | https://www.chargify.com
Checkout.com | https://www.checkout.com
DigitalRiver | https://www.digitalriver.com
Dwolla | https://www.dwolla.com
FastSpring | https://fastspring.com
GoCardless | https://gocardless.com
MangoPay | https://www.mangopay.com
Mollie | https://www.mollie.com
Opayo (previously SagePay) | https://www.opayo.co.uk
Paddle | https://www.paddle.com
Payoneer | https://www.payoneer.com
PayPal | https://www.paypal.com
Qonto | https://qonto.com/en
Spreedly | https://www.spreedly.com
Square | https://squareup.com
Verifone | https://www.verifone.com/en/us
White | https://whitepayments.com
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Observations from my data collection:
Sassy appears to have been acquired by FastSpring. Balanced Payments apparently went under but I found another payment service called "Balance" instead. Paymill is defunct but their Github org has a bunch of code. No idea what happened to Spryng Payments but Spryng still exists.
It's also worth mentioning that a true "Stripe alternative" simply does not exist. No one does everything they do and I'm pretty sure most services are lacking in the developer documentation department. Still, having options is always great.
I'm excited to see how the open-source "Stripe alternative" Lago (https://www.getlago.com/) develops. Does anyone here have experience using it?
Not really a Stripe alternative - but if you run out of alternatives, there's always Bitcoin. That is, if you want to accept payments without using any third-party service.
I wish more people implemented Bitcoin (Lightning) payments on their websites. I always pay with Bitcoin when there's an option; simply because it's easier and faster, compared to typing in my CC info and 2FAing it with my bank app. Bitcoin requires just scanning a QR code with a mobile wallet.
BTCPay Server[0] is the most popular (I think) self-hosted software for accepting Bitcoin payments. It's also available as a hosted version.
[0] https://btcpayserver.org
Great list, thank you.
One option is to always have more than one payment processor activated.
Splitting payments across providers early on doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
There are libraries focused in billing and payment management and leaving the payment processing only to stripe, etc. These libraries that can handle multiple payment providers and help reduce dependency on the a single payment provider for payment management functionality.
It’s always felt like a risk.
One stand alone library that I’m looking at is https://killbill.io/
If there are alternatives to this that folks have experience with - it would be great if you could share
Hey, there's Stigg (http://stigg.io/) and its like an abstraction layer on top of billing for SaaS. I think it counts as an alternative to killbill in some way.