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Stripe all the way! They have the best infrastructure and security, you can build out any payments system with their APIs and now they even have treasury-as-a-service to build your own bank. Elon and Peter Thiel were early investors, I can't imagine any company catching up at this point.


We’re using Stripe and super happy in general. But they don’t cover PayPal (which lots of our users need), and also recently added 0.5% charge for all subscriptions [0]. Previously it was included. They definitely added value over time, but I would expect them to raise prices as well over time. Also their support, while still great overall, can be w bit patchy and much slower than before (from our own anecdotal experience).

I’m curious about the experience of others with chargebee etc as a layer that potentially lets you “swap” Stripe with something else. Is it worth it?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25072783


Thanks for this, seems Stripe is the way to go, I'm sure that Stripe has no issues with selling worldwide.

One thing I keep hearing is Stripe does not handle 'VAT' and all those tax stuff but not sure if I need it though.

Is this still an issue with Stripe?



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