[chucky123]

i don't use a 3rd party billing solution. I straight up created my own.

If you have a single type of pricing(eg, variable, or tiered) its very easy rolling your own.

The issues happen when you change from variable to tiered(or vice versa), change from anniversary to calendary dates, add coupons, per user custom pricing, credits, etc etc.

I don't recommend building your own if you aren't familiar with Stripe or any other billing system. Once you understand how billing works, feel free to make a custom billing solution.

[Rafsark]

You are right! The issues usually happen when you add more complexity (tiers, discounts, credit notes, coupons, prepaid credits). Also, what I find very tough is that this is not a « one stop shop »: every single company has it’s own definition of what should be included or excluded from the MRR. I am pretty sure you never end up on an universal definition

[ankit77]

I started OpenPay (getopenpay.com) as an alternative to Stripe. We're giving subscription management for free to the HN community for a year

We support all the edge cases you mentioned around variable/tiered pricing, coupons, etc all part of our solution