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by Rezo 3401 days ago
Hi fellow NY SaaS developer :) I ran a similar report for our year end books, and it's amazing the amount of SaaS it takes to run a SaaS. Or put another way, the incredible ecosystem now available that allows you to focus on your core business.

I don't see any third party Stripe dunning service, did you build something similar yourself? Otherwise it might be worth looking into, it's one of those things that pays itself back in no time.

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For anyone else looking into recurring billing I'd highly recommend Chargebee (not affiliated at all).

We've tried a few different solutions and were a little apprehensive at first because it looked a bit clunky but it's actually one of the best bits of software I've used. You don't realise the number of features a subscription billing platform needs until you use something like chargebee and discover how wonderful it is to have someone do it all for you. What's really great is before changing anything they give you a pop up showing what's going to be billed now, what will happen in the future etc. We used stripe before switching and I was a nervous wreck before ever pushing any buttons.

My co-founder and I were saying just the other day that we think it's one of the best investments we've made as a company.

https://www.chargebee.com

Oh wow, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing!
Glad to have helped! I discovered them when trying to find a solution for the insane EU Vat regulations (which they handle gracefully).

We've been with them through a big few tasks now (like when they added Xero integration - which is also an amazing feature) and if there's any confusion with mapping data or whatever they'll always jump on a video call to make sure everyone is 100% clear on what's going on.