Ask HN: Braintree (payments gateway) alternative for startups outside the US?
Braintree is an excellent solution for American companies. We want to introduce paid accounts for our (currently low-volume) web app. Does anyone know what we can use, other than Paypal?
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There's SaaSy, which works with vendors in most every country and unlike the others is all-inclusive. Order pages are translated into 20 languages and end users can pay in Euros, USD, CAD, Yen, AUD, Pound, etc. VAT is managed for vendors as part of the service.
Bitcoin :-D
Chargify.com supports many international merchant accounts.
Here are previous threads :)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=948036
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526517
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=432284
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=948036
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526517
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=432284
None of those threads deal with services that serve international customers.
Oft-mentioned services like Chargify, CheddarGetter and Spreedly have limited international support. Often it's difficult to determine the extent of the support, and I have been searching through support forums to find out what I need.
CheddarGetter, for example, supports "all currencies" (their claim) and a number of international gateways and merchant accounts, but does not offer any languages other than English. So they didn't think that one through.
Recurly has several languages, but does not offer any template system for their hosted payment pages, so no custom translation is possible. (None of the other services I have mentioned support templating, either.)
My experience, from dealing with 5-6 different SaaS billing vendors, is that it's as though globalization hasn't happened yet. All the current SaaS billing vendors are US companies who have no clue about the rest of the world.
There are international-friendly non-SaaS vendors, but they have web pages built from stock photos of soulless, snappily-dressed consultants (eg., http://www.wirecard.com/) and the only way to sign up is to call them and talk to a sales person.
Oft-mentioned services like Chargify, CheddarGetter and Spreedly have limited international support. Often it's difficult to determine the extent of the support, and I have been searching through support forums to find out what I need.
CheddarGetter, for example, supports "all currencies" (their claim) and a number of international gateways and merchant accounts, but does not offer any languages other than English. So they didn't think that one through.
Recurly has several languages, but does not offer any template system for their hosted payment pages, so no custom translation is possible. (None of the other services I have mentioned support templating, either.)
My experience, from dealing with 5-6 different SaaS billing vendors, is that it's as though globalization hasn't happened yet. All the current SaaS billing vendors are US companies who have no clue about the rest of the world.
There are international-friendly non-SaaS vendors, but they have web pages built from stock photos of soulless, snappily-dressed consultants (eg., http://www.wirecard.com/) and the only way to sign up is to call them and talk to a sales person.
We're in Canada, have looked at Braintree and couldn't get a merchant account going either with them or their only partner for Canada. Turned around and looked at Beanstream for Merchant Account + Gateway, so far excellent service and product. Gateway not as neat as Braintree's Transparent Redirect but better than almost anything we've looked at.
It depends on how you want to charge for your web app. Check out Willet (http://www.getwillet.com).
[Full disclosure: I'm a Willet co-founder.]
[Full disclosure: I'm a Willet co-founder.]
- Web page says "US and Canada" only.
- The FAQ says that "Willet is a super fast and simple way to buy digital goods and services". Surely you are targeting developers, ie. the seller, so you should tell us that Willet is a super blah blah way to sell digital goods and services?
- Willet seems designed for very small transactions and has no support for subscriptions.
- Your site does not tell me how I, as a seller, gets the money. Surely that's at least half of the point of services such as Braintree -- ie., the merchant account.
- The FAQ says that "Willet is a super fast and simple way to buy digital goods and services". Surely you are targeting developers, ie. the seller, so you should tell us that Willet is a super blah blah way to sell digital goods and services?
- Willet seems designed for very small transactions and has no support for subscriptions.
- Your site does not tell me how I, as a seller, gets the money. Surely that's at least half of the point of services such as Braintree -- ie., the merchant account.