Thanks for the feedback, there was a minor glitch with our DNS config which caused a few of our outgoing signup emails to bounce... All fixed now and you should have received your welcome email.
I received the email with no problem within a few minutes. The problem is that it was virtually useless and not required to login (no activation link).
Hey, we provide a hosted out of the box subscription checkout for users who do not want to build. We also support you building your own checkout via our API
thats correct, BillForward offers a deeper subscription stack making it easier and faster to start billing and handling upgrades, downgrades, switch plans etc....
I m currently trying to integrate stripe subscription api, for my soon to be launched service. Could you tell me why I should consider you instead of them?
As pointed out by dan_bk we provide a bunch of features above the plan based subscriptions Stripe offer.
If you think you are going to be selling your product with usage based pricing, or want to use tiered pricing then we can add value from what you get with Stripe. Feel free to drop me an e-mail at ian AT billforward . net and can talk through you use-case.
It could be valuable to have a feature grid kind of page where you compare your platform to the built-in subscriptions in Braintree and Stripe, to provide an explicit list of the things you can handle that they can't.
Yeah, for example, see MailChimp's feature table for their Mandrill service that allows prospective customers to compare Mandrill to SendGrid (the market leader?):
This is a pretty standard way of working in many other industries. For example when the cable person comes to install your service a good proportion of them are self employed contractors branded as the cable company being paid a fixed fee for every install they complete. The only dubious part of what you have described is how the other party has communicated this, should have really agreed these terms at the beginning of the relationship.
