Show HN: List of Stripe Alternatives

1

Amazon Pay

Seems like every time there's a negative Stripe story on here, the inevitable question, "any alternatives?" gets asked. Hell, I was tempted to ask myself. Instead, I decided to search hn.algolia.com to see for myself what others have recommended in the past. Might as well share the list with y'all, make it meta. -- 2Checkout | https://www.2checkout.com Adyen | https://www.adyen.com Amazon Pay | https://pay.amazon.com Authorize.net | https://www.authorize.net Balance | https://www.getbalance.com Braintree | https://www.braintreepayments.com ChargeBee | https://www.chargebee.com Chargify | https://www.chargify.com Checkout.com | https://www.checkout.com DigitalRiver | https://www.digitalriver.com Dwolla | https://www.dwolla.com FastSpring | https://fastspring.com GoCardless | https://gocardless.com MangoPay | https://www.mangopay.com Mollie | https://www.mollie.com Opayo (previously SagePay) | https://www.opayo.co.uk Paddle | https://www.paddle.com Payoneer | https://www.payoneer.com PayPal | https://www.paypal.com Qonto | https://qonto.com/en Spreedly | https://www.spreedly.com Square | https://squareup.com Verifone | https://www.verifone.com/en/us White | https://whitepayments.com -- Observations from my data collection: Sassy appears to have been acquired by FastSpring. Balanced Payments apparently went under but I found another payment service called "Balance" instead. Paymill is defunct but their Github org has a bunch of code. No idea what happened to Spryng Payments but Spryng still exists. It's also worth mentioning that a true "Stripe alternative" simply does not exist. No one does everything they do and I'm pretty sure most services are lacking in the developer documentation department. Still, having options is always great.

#Online Payments #Payment Platform #Recurring Billing 10 social mentions

2

GoCardless

Seems like every time there's a negative Stripe story on here, the inevitable question, "any alternatives?" gets asked. Hell, I was tempted to ask myself. Instead, I decided to search hn.algolia.com to see for myself what others have recommended in the past. Might as well share the list with y'all, make it meta. -- 2Checkout | https://www.2checkout.com Adyen | https://www.adyen.com Amazon Pay | https://pay.amazon.com Authorize.net | https://www.authorize.net Balance | https://www.getbalance.com Braintree | https://www.braintreepayments.com ChargeBee | https://www.chargebee.com Chargify | https://www.chargify.com Checkout.com | https://www.checkout.com DigitalRiver | https://www.digitalriver.com Dwolla | https://www.dwolla.com FastSpring | https://fastspring.com GoCardless | https://gocardless.com MangoPay | https://www.mangopay.com Mollie | https://www.mollie.com Opayo (previously SagePay) | https://www.opayo.co.uk Paddle | https://www.paddle.com Payoneer | https://www.payoneer.com PayPal | https://www.paypal.com Qonto | https://qonto.com/en Spreedly | https://www.spreedly.com Square | https://squareup.com Verifone | https://www.verifone.com/en/us White | https://whitepayments.com -- Observations from my data collection: Sassy appears to have been acquired by FastSpring. Balanced Payments apparently went under but I found another payment service called "Balance" instead. Paymill is defunct but their Github org has a bunch of code. No idea what happened to Spryng Payments but Spryng still exists. It's also worth mentioning that a true "Stripe alternative" simply does not exist. No one does everything they do and I'm pretty sure most services are lacking in the developer documentation department. Still, having options is always great.

#Recurring Billing #Recurring Subscription Billing #Payment Platform 7 social mentions

3

FastSpring

Seems like every time there's a negative Stripe story on here, the inevitable question, "any alternatives?" gets asked. Hell, I was tempted to ask myself. Instead, I decided to search hn.algolia.com to see for myself what others have recommended in the past. Might as well share the list with y'all, make it meta. -- 2Checkout | https://www.2checkout.com Adyen | https://www.adyen.com Amazon Pay | https://pay.amazon.com Authorize.net | https://www.authorize.net Balance | https://www.getbalance.com Braintree | https://www.braintreepayments.com ChargeBee | https://www.chargebee.com Chargify | https://www.chargify.com Checkout.com | https://www.checkout.com DigitalRiver | https://www.digitalriver.com Dwolla | https://www.dwolla.com FastSpring | https://fastspring.com GoCardless | https://gocardless.com MangoPay | https://www.mangopay.com Mollie | https://www.mollie.com Opayo (previously SagePay) | https://www.opayo.co.uk Paddle | https://www.paddle.com Payoneer | https://www.payoneer.com PayPal | https://www.paypal.com Qonto | https://qonto.com/en Spreedly | https://www.spreedly.com Square | https://squareup.com Verifone | https://www.verifone.com/en/us White | https://whitepayments.com -- Observations from my data collection: Sassy appears to have been acquired by FastSpring. Balanced Payments apparently went under but I found another payment service called "Balance" instead. Paymill is defunct but their Github org has a bunch of code. No idea what happened to Spryng Payments but Spryng still exists. It's also worth mentioning that a true "Stripe alternative" simply does not exist. No one does everything they do and I'm pretty sure most services are lacking in the developer documentation department. Still, having options is always great.

#SaaS #Subscription Billing #Subscription Management 5 social mentions

4

BTCPay

Not really a Stripe alternative - but if you run out of alternatives, there's always Bitcoin. That is, if you want to accept payments without using any third-party service. I wish more people implemented Bitcoin (Lightning) payments on their websites. I always pay with Bitcoin when there's an option; simply because it's easier and faster, compared to typing in my CC info and 2FAing it with my bank app. Bitcoin requires just scanning a QR code with a mobile wallet. BTCPay Server[0] is the most popular (I think) self-hosted software for accepting Bitcoin payments. It's also available as a hosted version. [0] https://btcpayserver.org.

#Crypto Payments #Cryptocurrencies #Cryptocurrency Wallets 153 social mentions

5

PinPayments

I use these guys (based in Australia): https://pinpayments.com/ Excellent support, and no bullshit. It really as simple as creating an account, installing the plugin on my website then collecting payments.

#Online Payments #Payment Gateways #Payment Platform 2 social mentions

6

Killbill

Great list, thank you. One option is to always have more than one payment processor activated. Splitting payments across providers early on doesn’t have to be a bad thing. There are libraries focused in billing and payment management and leaving the payment processing only to stripe, etc. These libraries that can handle multiple payment providers and help reduce dependency on the a single payment provider for payment management functionality. It’s always felt like a risk. One stand alone library that I’m looking at is https://killbill.io/ If there are alternatives to this that folks have experience with - it would be great if you could share.

#Recurring Billing #Recurring Subscription Billing #Payment Platform 6 social mentions