This is the text I received in an email just now, which is for people on the 'Starter Plan' and easier to understand than the linked article.<p>1. Today we’re deprecating the Billing Starter plan (your current plan) and moving all customers to a single, comprehensive plan that includes all of Stripe Billing's features. Your pricing will change from 0.5% to 0.7% of Billing volume. However, we'll maintain your current pricing for one year, until June 30, 2025. Pricing of one-time invoices through Stripe Invoicing is unchanged.<p>2. We’re also introducing subscription-based pricing for Billing. This can make your monthly costs lower and more predictable compared to pay-as-you-go pricing. Learn more and switch plans in the Stripe Dashboard.
as a years-long customer for whom prices keep increasing while product keeps getting worse (fraud detection and dispute handling in particular), I'm really hopeful that a decent competitor shows up soon.
Starter pricing was 0.5%.<p>Scale pricing was 0.8%.<p>Both plans were consolidated into a single plan which is 0.7%.<p>This is good news if you were a Scale customer and bad news if you were a Starter customer.
I love Stripe, blah blah blah, Stripe has "good" le docs and good dev experience and w/e.<p>But now that they have market share they are seemingly becoming more greedy.<p>I think they are overplaying their hand. There's no reason that these charges should be %-based. And I'm almost certain for large enterprise customers they're not; there's probably custom negotiated contracts for those cases.<p>I hope we get more players in this space that can force them to be more competitive on pricing.
This sounds like a pretty significant increase. This is like 40% (or 60%?) increase, no? The new pricing seems to bundle 'volume billing' and 'invoicing', was the latter previously free?
The real question is what payment providers handle ACH well for a reasonable price. Say lots of $500 invoices. Underlying costs on the ACH platform is pretty low. Would love to find a $3 capped provider. Intuit is uncapped, so a $10,000 payment costs $100 per payment on their platform. Ouch!
There is no reason why this feature is % based.
What alternative we have? 0.7% just to trigger a charge every month it makes not sense.<p>For international card is 0.7%+3.9%=4.6% fee for payment!