[Silhouette]

I'm sorry that it feels that way. Stripe Billing's pricing has been public since 2018.

But lots of us have been using Stripe for a lot longer than that, and don't necessarily want or need all the extra things you're now putting under the "Billing" brand.

We haven't received any notification of a change from Stripe, but from the HN discussion, it looks like the option to just have a simple, automated recurring charge -- the key feature that attracted businesses like mine to Stripe in the first place -- is being removed. If that is the case then we'll naturally view the change as a 0.5% increase in Stripe's fees, pure and simple.

[tomsi]

Second that! We are exactly in the same shoes. We are not using or planning to use any of those extra features and are pretty disappointed by that move. Costs us a couple of grand more every year in stripe fees or we now have to go hire a developer.

[TedDoesntTalk]

We use recurly.com for subscription management and have been very pleased with them for years.

[Silhouette]

FWIW, we're in the UK, where a combination of the European PSD2/SCA changes, ever more complicated tax rules, and uncertainty over Brexit is making the model used by services like Stripe unattractive now. We've been looking into merchant-of-record alternatives, where it can be someone else's problem to keep up with all the tax and regulatory changes and to implement all the awkward UI edge cases. We haven't yet made a final decision on how to proceed, but apparently the difference in fees relative to the existing services we use is going to be smaller in the new year, so that's one barrier to switching getting lower.