For the typical $5/mo SaaS subscription, that's a full 10% just to pay for your checkout system (not including the payment system).
That said, our team is likely not Snappy Checkout's audience as we're devs who can integrate Stripe/Paypal ourselves.
For the typical $5/mo SaaS subscription
This is the problem. Typical Saas subscriptions are significantly more than $5/month, at least if you want to stay in business. $50/month (as a starting tier) is more normal and could actually be sustainable.
If you're charging only $5/month for your SaaS, then you will be unlikely to have enough margins to pay for any external services (and possibly your rent).
For reference, Gumroad charges .30 + 5%. So on a $50/month subscription that's going to be $2.80, whereas with Snappy Checkout its only going to be $1.95. More importantly, as you charge more (e.g., $200/month), the gap would widen even further.
We currently process about $3k/month through Gumroad and e-Junkie, so we're just about at the point where it makes sense to look at other options. If we can move to something like this as opposed to rolling our own, I'm very interested.
But we probably agree on this: if you charge $5/month, this product is not for you. If you charge $50/month, the fees are negligible.
I would like to see:
- hosted downloads (not my Dropbox)
- hosted checkout pages (not lightbox)
- what the dunning emails look like, and if I can edit them
- the docs for the API
- more information in general (the site is only 1 page, hard to trust)
- Hosted checkout pages -- like a form directly in your website?
- The dunning emails cannot be edited right now. It's on my to-do list. I'd be happy to email anyone a sample of the format I'm using right now.
- There are no API docs right now. I'm working on it. If anyone is interested, please let me know and I will send you a full list of calls available.
- Snappy Checkout is surely new, but I've been writing software on the Internet for quite some time now. If you want to stalk me, try Googling things like "Singer's Creations", "Weather Watcher", or "Mike Singer".