Stripe Billing

Stripe Billing is brilliant at allowing you to integrate with your platform via the API, and as such it has allowed our business to grow whilst allowing easy access to the data at any time it is required.

The depth of the API means that we can allow clients to verify their account via our front-end, allowing for a seamless experience.

If you are starting a SaaS product and looking for a reliable payments processer with a robust API, Stripe is a great play. The Stripe Checkout platform manages payments and invoices to reduce the heavy frontend load associated with building a payments experience for your SaaS. Definitely worth checking out!

If you have a small to medium sized business Stripe is most likely the perfect solution for you. It will automate almost all of your billing, freeing up your time to be used elsewhere. If you have a large business I would recommend getting in touch with the Stripe customer support team first to ensure it will be a good fit for you.

Stripe is great for a bigger business with multiple clients/customers who have recurring charges. It is great to keep track and schedule invoices, has risk evaluation for customers, and is easy to navigate through the website to find certain charges. This is not a good platform for freelancers or smaller businesses who need a POS system.

Stripe is perfect for a site that requires recurring billing, and the Laravel integration is very easy and very well documented. Stripe offers a lot of flexibility in designing your payment flow, look and feel from using their built-in popups for coding up a custom payment page. The quickest option uses popups generated by a JavaScript plugin, and those look great. We have not encountered any use cases where we needed to accept payment outside of Stripe.

If you have a subscription/SaaS business, Stripe is great and easy to administrate for the most part. If you have a one-off transactional sales platform, Stripe is not as useful -- I would use Shopify in those cases. If you are a contractor and billing for hours that vary monthly, Stripe is not a good choice -- there are better solutions available.

Stripe is well-suited for startup companies and small businesses that want a simple and trusted solution to capture credit card information and process payments. It is very out-of-the-box. The API for Stripe can be easily integrated into any web-based application and live within an hour. It does become pricey as you generate more volume in sales.

If you don't care about personal customer service, and don't think of your online billing operation as "mission critical" then Stripe may just be the right provider for you. But if you demand to talk to a human being in the case of an emergency, then I would not recommend this provider at all. Their lack of personal customer service during emergencies presents too high of a risk for our organization, and eventually we will have to find another provider due to the risk and exposure we face without any contingency plans if/when our billing experiences problems.