Billing Software?

[rjben]

Hi,

We have a subscription based service where the customer pays for the service each month. Currently we send out invoices by email and reconcile against payments received to our account when the customer pays - all very painful with lots of overhead.

What we'd like is a service / software package that allows us to enter the clients payment details (either card or bank account details for DD), along with invoice details (via templates) and repeat billing frequency, then the system will automatically bill the client via their payment method and send the client an invoice for thier records. Ideally the system should allow the repeat payment to be changed and report on failed collection attempts. If it could also do our accounts (something like QuickBooks etc) then that would be fantastic.

Does anybody have any recommendations? What kind of thing should we be looking for? We're a bit too young to be considering building our own via API / Payment Gateway, we need to grow a little before we can take on that kind of expense.

Any help much appreciated.

[rjben]

Thanks both, I took a look, is it only via API?

[rjben]

48k said:

No, there is an integration using their payments javascript (stripe.js) which you drop in to your web page and gives you a UI for the customer to provide their payment details which is hosted on the Stripe servers so your platform does not need to be PCI compliant, it's all dealt with at their end.

If you do need some work in this area, PM me the details and I can point you in the right direction / give you a quote if you like.

Thanks. We're not interested in having the client fill in their details online - we take the order then setup the invoice ourselves, hence the need for an admin portal that we can use. We're not interested in providing the client with a fully automated signup / payment service from the site (yet) as the on boarding process requires client interaction with us due to consultation required (it's not a simple service).