Automatic vs Manual Billing for Subscriptions
hello everyone,
Why most of the online services use automatic billing ? why they don't offer one payment strategy for recurring billing ?
some people want to pay just one month, after a month they forgot to cancel and it becomes a problem.
I think that one payment strategy have some benefits over automatic:
- Reduce charge backs.
- Easy to implement.
- Cost less (https://costme.fauz.io/)
- Makes me feel secure :'D
what do you think ?
One payment is good for one time services/tools or ones that are used once in a while. For things that are continually used month to month, recurring billing makes more sense because you have to pay for things like servers and infrastructure as well.
Let users know before you renew their subscription. Stripe has an event that is triggered 7 days before a subscription is charged. (plug: building https://plover.email to automatically take care of this). Also offer annual subscription as an option to monthly subscriptions and let people be able to cancel their subscription from their dashboard
Not necessarily. I'd say it takes just a little to no extra effort to build recurrent billing.
Nope, it doesn't
I have an MVP and I want to launch early, but Stripe does not support my country and PayPal requires you build your own system and dashboard, so it takes a lot of time, so I decided to use PayPal Checkout then I will move to Stripe through Atlas in case the project succeed.
Any advice ?
Works. I have no experience with PayPal checkout but I'm sure you'll be fine.
All the best.