I've been interested in a tool like this for a while. I currently have tried whisprflow and aqua voice but wanted to use my API key and store more context locally. How does all the data get stored and how can I access it?
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Huh, weird. I don't think I have ever wanted to login to Stripe and take manual actions. Usually I hook up Stripe events to actions in my applications, like "The user subscribed, wire them up to the drip lifecycle" or "The user unsubscribed, remove them from a certain marketing list and try to schedule an exit interview" or other hook-ups.
Ah yes. Interestingly most of our users don't set this up in the early stage. But for the ones that do, they need webhooks for this. We have a single webhook that fires whenever a customer's state is updated (eg subscription started, cancelled, downgraded, expired) etc, that the downstream functions you talk about rely on.
ayushrodrigues commented on Show HN: Autumn – Open-source infra over Stripe github.com/useautumn/autu... · Posted by u/ayushrodrigues
One more data point: at work we use Stripe for most regions [1], but in our largest region (South Africa) we have to use Paystack [2] (a Stripe subsidiary). The API isn't 1:1 compatible and there's no plans to do so in the near future. Having multiple providers is a must for us to consider a solution.
Lago is better in that they have have support for custom payment integrations [3].
[2] https://paystack.com/stripe/south-africa
[3] https://getlago.com/docs/integrations/payments/custom-paymen...
This is really helpful context. Thanks for sharing!
ayushrodrigues commented on Show HN: Autumn – Open-source infra over Stripe github.com/useautumn/autu... · Posted by u/ayushrodrigues
Currently implementing billing/usage for Nango, I wish I had a solution that simple to do it. Would have saved us at least a week.
Ah shame we missed you! Glad to hear it resonates :)
ayushrodrigues commented on Show HN: Autumn – Open-source infra over Stripe github.com/useautumn/autu... · Posted by u/ayushrodrigues
Yep a RevenueCat competitor essentially. Makes sense to focus on web, seems like it's using pure TypeScript, is it mainly for the backend, or for the frontend?
We have react hooks so we try and make the majority of the integration lift on the frontend. One of our contributors is helping us launch a python SDK soon too !
ayushrodrigues commented on Show HN: Autumn – Open-source infra over Stripe github.com/useautumn/autu... · Posted by u/ayushrodrigues
I have some web/mobile apps and I'm currently using Adapty which has custom paywalls and other sorts of features, as well as web-based paywalls now that Apple lost their ruling against Epic Games (and I'm using Flutter but the UI side doesn't necessarily matter due to the web-based nature of the paywalls). Is this a use case you are targeting? Adapty also integrates with Stripe for the web side of its offerings.
Adapty looks cool! Kind of similar to Revenuecat?
I think the offering is similar -- both manage entitlements and paywalls. And while we do have a proportion of users that use us for mobile apps we're pretty focused on SaaS / web.
I can imagine Adapty would go deeper on features like AB testing, paywall designing etc
Our users handle lower volume of subscriptions but require more flexibility and depth on the pricing models they want to support.
ayushrodrigues commented on Show HN: Autumn – Open-source infra over Stripe github.com/useautumn/autu... · Posted by u/ayushrodrigues
Congrats on the release Ayush! Happy to see this come to market.
Thanks Eric!
ayushrodrigues commented on Show HN: Autumn – Open-source infra over Stripe github.com/useautumn/autu... · Posted by u/ayushrodrigues
Looks cool, but usually permissions management is done by auth, how does this work with autumn?
We are pretty tightly coupled with Auth. Part of setting it up is resolving your internal customer (or org) ID from your auth JWT and passing it into an autumnHandler function, which then makes calls to the Autumn API.
This means you don't need to store any additional IDs for billing -- just make calls to Autumn with your exiting auth uuids.
ayushrodrigues commented on Show HN: Autumn – Open-source infra over Stripe github.com/useautumn/autu... · Posted by u/ayushrodrigues
How is update credit card on file and a listing of past invoices handled?
Updating credit card:
- We have an openBillingPortal() function that when called, will redirect a user to the Stripe billing portal where they can update their card info. If it's a valid card, we allow the change and keep the customer in an active subscription state.
Past invoices: - We have a GET /customer method that returns all billing related information on a user. This includes their current plans, features and balances they have available, and can take in an expand?=invoices param that will return all past invoice data for you to display.
Users can also see invoice history in the Stripe billing portal mentioned above.
ayushrodrigues commented on Show HN: Autumn – Open-source infra over Stripe github.com/useautumn/autu... · Posted by u/ayushrodrigues
Nice to see this show HN, I was literally talking to a friend yesterday about how Autumn is making their billing way easier.
I've suffered so much with all the pricing changes I've been experimenting with (early stage solo founder). Till now had been chugging along doing it manually but I'm going to integrate autumn soon.
Nice to hear that word is starting to spread :) and happy to help when you come to integrate!