Stripe Billing
stripe.com/billingBuild Difficulty: 5/5
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Recurring Payments & Subscription Solutions
How to Replace Stripe BillingOverview
Features
57 features across 20 categories
Accounting(1)
Automate revenue recognition workflows for accurate financial reporting
Analytics & Reporting(4)
Analyze involuntary and voluntary churn with detailed metrics and recovery insights
Create custom reports for billing and subscription data
View detailed financial and revenue reports directly from the Dashboard with SaaS and Billing analytics
Monitor and analyze subscription payment failures and recovery rates with downloadable reports from the Dashboard
Billing(8)
Bill daily, weekly, monthly, or annually in advance or in arrears with custom future start dates
Offer prepaid or promotional credits to customers that automatically draw down as usage occurs
Adjust or refund finalized invoices from the Dashboard or via API for overbilling or inventory shortages
Split the full price of goods or services over multiple billing periods with set payment increments
Send, aggregate, and analyze real-time usage events using Stripe's Meters API with support for 100 million events per month
Automatically prorate billing when plans are upgraded, downgraded, canceled, or paused
Use composable API to customize and automate subscription changes over time for complex contracts
Set a subscription's start date in the past to charge for unpaid services or ensure accurate reporting
Compliance(3)
Handle Reserve Bank of India (RBI) requirements for recurring payments with mandate registration and pre-debit notifications
Stripe helps businesses achieve and maintain PCI compliance for sensitive payment information handling
Enable customers to update billing payment methods or cancel subscriptions within two clicks to comply with local regulations
Core Billing(2)
Create, customize, send, and revise Stripe-hosted invoices from the Dashboard with automated invoice collection and payment reminders
Manage customers or subscribers across their lifecycle with Stripe-hosted pages and tools to ensure billing accuracy
Customer Experience(1)
Enable customers to self-manage their payment details, invoices, and subscriptions with a secure, prebuilt portal allowing upgrades, downgrades, pauses, and cancellations
Data Management(1)
Seamlessly migrate subscriptions from third-party billing processors using the Billing migration toolkit with validation and tracking
Developer Tools(2)
Design and implement custom billing workflows with minimal code for new business and pricing models
Test Billing integration and ensure it behaves as designed
Integration(5)
Integrate with accounting systems for revenue recognition and automated reconciliation
Create and manage subscriptions on Stripe without leaving Salesforce
Integrate Stripe into existing CRM systems and automate subscriptions and invoice creation from closed sales orders
Sync billing data into ERP, data warehouse, and accounting systems
Automatically notify other systems of lifecycle events including new subscriptions, payments, and cancellations
International(1)
Accept payments in 135+ currencies with support for international cards and 3D Secure
Invoicing(2)
Send customers unique links to Stripe-hosted invoice pages optimized for mobile, tablet, and desktop viewing
Automatically reconcile recurring invoices paid by ACH credit or wire transfers
Payment Collection(2)
Prebuilt payment form for accepting subscriptions and one-time payments with no-code setup
Offer subscriptions in a payments page without writing code and share the same payment link across multiple channels
Payment Management(1)
Stripe works directly with card networks to update payment details when a card expires or is replaced
Payment Methods(1)
Accept credit and debit cards, bank transfers, mobile wallets, and 100+ payment methods including local payment methods
Platform Features(1)
Enable platforms and marketplaces to use Stripe Connect for recurring payments and invoicing with subscription management resale
Pricing Models(6)
Charge a flat monthly rate with extra charges for usage that exceeds a fixed quota
Charge a single fixed price on a recurring basis
Pricing dependent on the number of active users during the billing period
Define, manage, and bill for packages of usage-based products and features as unified offerings without code
Charge different prices based on volume tiers
Automate billing for usage-based pricing models including consumption-based, flat-fee plus overage, and credit burndown
Revenue Optimization(4)
Machine learning-based retry of network declines in real time to improve authorization rates for initial subscription charges
Send prebuilt emails to customers for missed or overdue payments with secure one-click payment method updates
Create up to three automations including custom retry policies for different customer segments and configurable subscription state management
AI-powered automatic retry of failed payments at optimal times using machine learning to increase recovery success rates
Sales Tools(5)
Share price estimates with customers and convert approved quotes into subscriptions or invoices with customizable products, prices, terms, and discounts
Configure coupons with expiration limits, percentage or flat discounts, restriction to specific transactions, and promotion code generation
Let customers try products for free or at a lower price with flexible trial expiration and automated trial ending notifications
Sign up new subscribers with point-of-sale payments and tokenize payment details for recurring charges
Display customizable, no-code, embeddable pricing information on your website with subscription upsells
Subscription Management(4)
Use Stripe as a system of record for customer lifecycle with automatic provisioning, renewal reminders, and event tracking
Determine which features customers are entitled to based on pricing and manage feature access grants and revocations
Configure rules to automatically or manually renew customer subscriptions
Schedule subscription updates ahead of time such as upgrades, downgrades, and future start dates
Tax Compliance(3)
Calculate and collect sales tax, VAT, and GST on physical and digital goods in all US states and 100+ countries
Follow invoicing requirements across European countries with compliant invoice templates
Generate tax reporting data for subscription businesses
Pricing
Pay as You Go
- ✓Recurring billing and subscriptions
- ✓Usage-based billing (100M events/month)
- ✓Automatic reminders
- ✓Smart Retries
- ✓Recovery and retention automations (up to 3)
- ✓Customer portal
- ✓Quotes
- ✓Multiphase subscription schedules
- ✓No credit card required
- ✓No recurring fees
Volume Tier 1
- ✓All features included
- ✓Up to $100,000 billing volume per month
- ✓0.67% for additional billing volume
Volume Tier 2
- ✓All features included
- ✓Up to $250,000 billing volume per month
- ✓0.67% for additional billing volume
Volume Tier 3
- ✓All features included
- ✓Up to $500,000 billing volume per month
- ✓0.67% for additional billing volume
Volume Tier 4
- ✓All features included
- ✓Up to $1,000,000 billing volume per month
- ✓0.67% for additional billing volume
Enterprise
- ✓Custom pricing for companies with large billing volume
- ✓Unique business models
- ✓Dedicated support
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Integrations
10 known integrations