Subscription management services for SaaS businesses
There is a rise in the number of payment management services for SaaS based businesses. The growth is good, it shows there is an increasing trend to subscription based businesses online and away from the software or long term licensing. However, many of these SaaS based businesses are just a wrapper around payment gateways. Their value is in the ease at which they enable the software developer to integrate a recurring payment stream. They provide reporting on top of the payment systems but they do little more. They don’t seem to integrate well with marketing efforts. Here’s a quick list of the ones I have checked out.
Chargify.com – Is a dedicated SaaS solution with easy integration and solid management of failed charges through Dunning. Chargify supports only Authorize.net as a payment option, which limits their applicability to some companies. Fixed pricing based on number of customers managed.
Zuora.com – The Salesforce.com of SaaS subscription management solutions. Zuora is an “enterprise” model, from its web site to its lack of pricing details. They have all the bells and whistles but may not be a good fit for the small nimble start up.
Vindicia.com – Another enterprise player in the SaaS subscription management solution space. They look to target online gaming and virtual worlds. This is a unique differentiator from Zuora.com which is focused at SaaS and service based businesses.
CheedarGetter.com – Dedicated SaaS subscription management solution targeted at the small business, similar to Chargify. CheedarGetter offers more options in terms of user management and pricing including aggregated transaction billing solutions and feature specific pricing. Only offers support for Authorize.net as a payment gateway. Pricing is either fixed or percent per transaction.
Spreedly.com – Dedicated SaaS subscription management solution similar to CheedarGetter.com and Chargify.com. They support feature sets, promotions, free services, etc. What makes them stand apart from others is their support for multiple payment gateways including PayPal and others. Pricing is fixed per month plus a fixed fee per transaction.
Know of another SaaS subscription management service provider? Leave a comment and let me know.
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Hi Nathan,
Aria Systems (http://www.AriaSystems.com) is the pioneer in SaaS based Billing and Subscription Management services. The Aria Billing Platform allows you to grow your business at all stages of the subscription lifecycle (Acquire, Activate, Billing, Managing, Reporting and Analytics) and yes, we do integrate well with your marketing efforts.
We’ve been around since 2003 and service a wide range of companies (from startup to midsize to enterprise) and verticals including SaaS, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Social Networking, Media and even Gaming/Virtual Worlds with our Velocity offering (http://www.velocity.com).
The Aria Billing Platform is not only reliable and flexible, but it is secure – as we are the only vendor to have achieved both SAS 70 Type II certification as well as PCI DSS Level 1 compliance for the entire billing management process.
If you have any questions, let me know. I can be reached at jlarkin@ariasystems.com.
Thanks for including Chargify in your summary. Just want to let anyone know that we’re adding more payment gateways right now. We have a blog post on our approach at chargify.com/blog.
Thanks, again.
Hi Nathan,
Nice list, thanks for including us! As a clarification, Vindicia does include full gateway functionality and is built to integrate and enable your marketing teams.
Ping me with any questions!
Jeremy -
Nathan, You might also consider Monexa to be an Enterprise subscription billing model as we were rated as the number one cloud billing and automated payments provider in a recent report from Saugatuck Technologies http://www.saugatech.com. However in their report they also mentioned our ability to support almost any size of client due to our robust capabilities, an unmatched API set, and out of the box API integrated storefront and Self service portals. We are also the only Enterprise capable vendor to list our prices on our site and we do not charge an arm and a leg to implement, in part because we have the whole API integration and API provisioning long since figured out.
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