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You can ask me any question other than that one. :) Their offer was generous enough to make us completely scrap our plans for staying independent and growing the business ourselves. It wasn't just the money though, after meeting Rally we were convinced that everyone was better off if we joined forces.

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Congratulations..Do you mind if you I ask how are you taking the payments. Did you implement the billing system for user registration and recurring payments or used an existing payments ? We are a start up building our SaaS products. We are in a phase with a need to implement accepting online payments. Any guidance in this regard is greatly appreciated.

We use Braintree (http://braintreepaymentsolutions.com/) as our credit card gateway and merchant account. I can't say enough good things about them... they're one of the rare companies now that offers an excellent product and excellent service. (Although I sound like an advertisement, I get nothing from them for saying that. :)

Our system interacts with their API when people sign up, and for recurring billing, we implemented a simple nightly process that also uses their API.

Braintree is what we are test driving right now. My question was did you build your system for the customer sign-up /management/recurring payments to interact with Braintree API or did you use any existing software/frameworks. I am looking for any suggestions/solutions on this. Thank you for taking your time to answer my questions.

Their API is very simple (just HTTP POSTs) so we just built our side from the ground up.

We (Braintree) have updated some things since AgileZen integrated: we now provide client libraries that simplify integration and also have much more robust recurring billing capabilities.

Braintree is our payment gateway for Kongregate, too. We're very happy with them.

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