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Stripe recently launched this feature themselves! https://stripe.com/us/billing

You can set up subscriptions/invoices and send a stripe-hosted link (pay.stripe.com) for the customer to enter their billing.

And you don't need to do _any_ coding. So, I'm not sure what the benefit of this is over using Stripe directly. Am I missing something?

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This is a good question. I will try to align the main differences (in my opinion):

1. Stripe invoice is part of the recurring billing process and isn’t intended for one-time charges. 2. Like other services, Stripe provides a payable invoice, instead, Wirize is a pre-integrated payment checkout. 3. Stripe invoice is available in the US only at the moment, instead, Wirize supports 20+ countries.

Please let me know if you've more questions.

If you're doing this is implies you're pulling money into your Stripe account and paying out to your customer's bank accounts? Unfortunately this makes you merchant of record, so if I'm not happy with a charge made to one of the merchants on your platform I'll raise a chargeback against you. Good luck getting the money back from the merchants :-/

Your assumption is totally incorrect sudhirj. Wirize uses direct charges trough Stripe Connect, so we never touch/hold customers money. If you want, check it out: https://goo.gl/vpvBEQ

Ah, okay. The previous thread seemed to imply that this was available in countries where Stripe wasn't. I see now that you mean that the Stripe Billings feature was US only.

you can actually send one time invoices on Stripe :D

Oh wow I didn't know about that, thanks!

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