everyone in this thread is right and deserves upvotes
including you and me.
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I'm sorry that it feels that way. Stripe Billing's pricing has been public since 2018. (We didn't charge any of our existing users from the outset precisely because we wanted to avoid any sense that there's a bait-and-switch. We wanted to wait until we really were confident that we had a good product that businesses are willing to pay for.)
Unfortunately no, It was never communicated to us. we were told stripe billing would be free to use. The very least that Stripe needs to do is to grandfather the existing revenue for old customers, and put in the charge for only newly created subscriptions.
We're very happy ChargeBee customers - I guess this doesn't affect us as we only use Stripe to store the card details - ChargeBee is the actual recurring billing engine.
Not affiliated to CB - just a happy customer!
Do you pay CB the listed prices, or there is significant volume discount?
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This is for their product called "Stripe Billing".
I have no idea if my subscriptions are on Stripe Billing. So confusing.
They are.
No, you don't need to do any work.
You don’t need to do any work, but you just need to pay more ;)
I've changed the title from "Stripe is now charging 0.5% more for recurring charges", which apparently is misleading, to one that is, though clunky, apparently accurate.
If anyone can suggest a better title—that is, accurate and neutral, and preferably with less clunk—we can change it again.
The original title was way more accurate. That is the essence of the change, and the reason why people are so unhappy.
If you use stripe to send monthly invoices to your customers (even if they don’t pay by card) this fees is going to apply. If I’m wrong someone please correct me. I’m pulling my hair over this change as a 5+ years old customer.
(edited) typo
We (Streak yc s11) signed up for Stripe way back in the day and have just been paying their standard payment processing fees for years. We haven't upgraded our API version or used any of their new billing features or anything like that. Basically we get the same value from Stripe we did from the day we integrated. I thought our pricing was going to be grandfathered but this change will cost us tens of thousands of dollars. Unfortunately, we're kind of hostage to it.
Anyone else at scale and have an old integration? How are you handling the fee increase?
we’re exactly in the same situation.