Billing

Recurring Subscriptions

Recurring Billing

Platforms that have recurring billing:

• Recurly
• Chargify
• Stripe
• Braintree
• PayPal

Fundamental Models:

• Customer is who is buying.
• Plan or Product is what a Customer is buying.
• Subscription is the relationship state of Customer and a Plan.
• Transaction or Invoice is an Subscription related-event where money changed hands.

How do I specify how and when a subscription renews?

Recurly delegates this to a Plan:

• plan_interval_unit (days, months)
• plan_interval_length
• total_billing_cycles

Chargify delegate this to a Product:

• interval_unit (days, months)
• interval
• price_in_cents

Chargify will version Products anytime there is a change.

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