Recurly handles your subscription needs from end-to-end: recurring billing, upgrades and downgrades, cancellations and refunds, declined payments, sending receipts and past-due notices, and more. With Recurly, you will spend less time on billing so you can focus on your business.
(Link: A simple subscription billing service made just for developers | Recurly)
A simple subscription billing service made just for developers | Recurly
Recurring Billing for Web 2.0 and SaaS Companies – Chargify
How does Chargify work with my existing website?
You have two options for integrating Chargify into your existing website. 1) The quickest and easiest way is to link your website to a custom branded payment page to sign up for your product or service. 2) For the more technically inclined, integrating our API gives you the ability to seamlessly integrate Chargify into your applications.
(Link: Recurring Billing for Web 2.0 and SaaS Companies – Chargify)
Online Subscription Billing Is A Pain. Recurly Wants To Alleviate It.
There are a number of other services that offer such functionality but Recurly believes it can differentiate itself in two key ways. First, they do not get paid until you get paid. There are no hidden or monthly fees here. Recurly takes a percentage of each transaction. These total anywhere from 1 to 3 percent depending on volume. But it also doesn’t take the money each time you make a sale, instead it collects the money at the end of each month when the sales are done.
(Link: Online Subscription Billing Is A Pain. Recurly Wants To Alleviate It.)
Spree: Open Source E-Commerce for Ruby on Rails
Spree capitalizes on the dynamic nature of the Ruby progamming language to provide the most flexible commerce platform available. Spree has been designed from the ground up to be as open and extensible as possible. You no longer have to be frustrated with the limited set of choices provided by most platforms. Spree is maintained by an active team of developers who continue to refine the code based on lessons learned from the challenges of real world deployments.
(Link: Spree: Open Source E-Commerce for Ruby on Rails)
WorkETC – Web CRM, Project Management Software & Billing
CRM + Projects + Billing
WORKetc provides serious business owners with all the software they need to build seriously successful businesses.
We combine CRM, Projects, Billing, Timesheets and more with a powerful automation engine to help take your small business to the next level.
(Link: WorkETC – Web CRM, Project Management Software & Billing)
AppExchange – Hundreds of Cloud Computing Applications, Pre-Integrated with salesforce.com
AppExchange is your one-stop-shop for software-as-a-service business applications. With just a mouse and a Salesforce account, you can easily find, test drive and install hundreds of pre-integrated applications from our partner and customer community. From lead scoring to bug tracking, the AppExchange allows you to extend your Salesforce success to every department and function.
(Link: AppExchange – Hundreds of Cloud Computing Applications, Pre-Integrated with salesforce.com)
CheddarGetter Wants To Get Your Startup Some Cheddar (Invites)
The key part aside from ease of use is obviously cost. And CheddarGetter sounds pretty compelling with prices starting at $39 a month. Larger rivals can charge hundreds of dollars a month for the same services. And CheddarGetter has no setup fees, transaction fees or percentage fees. It’s simply the $39 a month and then forget about it — assuming you stay small.
(Link: CheddarGetter Wants To Get Your Startup Some Cheddar (Invites))
Service Merchant — Ruby toolkit for recurring billing and subscription management
ServiceMerchant is an open source library for Software-as-a-Service applications, based on subscription payments and various service plans. The library consists of number of well-isolated and well-defined components, so that you may re-use portions of the library, should you find the full functionality not required for you. If you choose to use the library as whole, it should cover most of your payments requirements, thus being billing module for your application.
(Link: Service Merchant — Ruby toolkit for recurring billing and subscription management)
Starbucks Gossip: Up to a million Starbucks customers were double-charged over Memorial Day weekend
Starbucks confirms that on Friday, May 22 and half of Saturday, May 23, up to a million customers were double-charged for their order when they used their debit or credit cards because of what Starbucks calls a “settlement processing error.” A spokeswoman says: “All of our customers saw resolution” and that “as soon as we noticed the error, we had it fixed right away.”
(Link: Starbucks Gossip: Up to a million Starbucks customers were double-charged over Memorial Day weekend)
Spree – Online Commerce for Ruby on Rails
Spree is the complete open source commerce solution for Ruby on Rails originally developed by Sean Schofield. It is completely free to use and is licensed under the New BSD License.
(Link: Spree – Online Commerce for Ruby on Rails)


March 22, 2010
