Tools for building a subscription/SaaS product
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Don’t forget about VAT and sales tax. It’s a lot of work to do if you do accounting and reporting yourself.
For login , try Firebase Auth or Auth0 and to build the subscription part, use Chargebee.
For login, i also think that Auth0 is a great choice. For subscription, you can use Paypal. For 2HAC Studio, we are using Paypal for our Google Workspace addons.
Btw. Stripe and PayPal also have subscriptions out-of-the-box but I'm not sure what ChargeBee offers more.
Furthermore, have a look at Paddle (https://www.paddle.com/) they cover the worldwide tax handling and have subscriptions (AFAIK they operate as a "middleman" and you only have to have a business relation with them and not your customers individually).
As for landing pages - there are platforms offering them such as Unbounce https://unbounce.com/landing-page-templates/ (even if a little bit pricey). Personally, I would integrate the landing page on your website / same domain - this will help you site with SEO.
Furthermore, have a look at Paddle (https://www.paddle.com/) they cover the worldwide tax handling and have subscriptions (AFAIK they operate as a "middleman" and you only have to have a business relation with them and not your customers individually).
As for landing pages - there are platforms offering them such as Unbounce https://unbounce.com/landing-page-templates/ (even if a little bit pricey). Personally, I would integrate the landing page on your website / same domain - this will help you site with SEO.
I built a website on Replit, and would now like to monetize it with subscription. I would like some advice on the best tools for that. Specifically, what I'm looking for is something that:
1. supports multiple tiers of offerings eg free users will get limited views, tier 1 users will get x features, tier 2 users will get x+y features and so forth 2. allows users to sign in (using email, gmail, etc) so that they can manage their subscription and so that they can access the premium features 3. take payments 4. a professional looking landing site like this https://uideck.com/templates/play-html/
I looked at multiple solutions:
1. Chargebee (but requires an official work email account that I don't yet have. it's also unclear if it offers a sign in feature) 2. Stripe subscription + customer portal (https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions and https://stripe.com/docs/customer-management/get-started) 3. Squarespace and Wix (but saas apps don't seem to be their primary use case) 4. buy a bootstrap framework 5. Memberful
The ideal solution would have the following (in order of priority):
1. have all of the features above so that I would need to use only one tool and not multiple 2. easy to integrate / as little code as possible 3. Cheap if not free 4. gives me the flexibility to a/b test the monetization/subscription models eg being able to test when to surface the paywall, pricing, etc
Would anyone be able to advice? Thanks in advance.