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by kevinholesh 4876 days ago
Absolutely. If you're doing enough business, that 2% really adds up. At that point, it is financially worth it for you to build your own backend payment solution using Stripe or Balanced to save money.

But when you're first starting out selling something, it's a huge capital investment to build that payment processing code on top of Stripe/Balanced, likely $5,000+ if you do it right. We're trying to make it as easy as possible to get started.

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True. So do you offer lower prices for clients with higher volumes? I mean, you don't want to loose clients just as their business takes off...

In any case, I like to see competition in the this market so good luck :-)

We cap our Forge fee at $500 a month. You'll always pay the 2.9%+30 cents per transaction, but you'll never pay Forge more than $500 a month.