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by lobster_johnson 5463 days ago
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.