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First Look: The Future of Subscription Analytics

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31 pointsnickfzx10 comments

First killbill, now this. Yessss. It's been a good couple of days for SaaS offerings.

Vendor lockin is bad. Stripe is encouraging vendor lockin. Baremetrics is a great solution, but if Stripe bans your account, you're fucked. Same goes for Stripe subscriptions, or any service built around solely the Stripe API. I'm happy to see Chartmogul offering multiple backends in a pluggable manner. This is the key to winning business. Thanks.

(I imagine you have plans to integrate other backends, and it looks like you're agnostic whether it's a merchant provider or a full service offering, e.g. stripe vs chargify. Do you have a roadmap for which backends you will integrate with it? Have you considered open sourcing the portion of the code responsible for integration?)

Thanks for the kind words.

We currently support Stripe and Braintree, with Recurly support going live in the next few days. Chargify will be next. We'll likely be adding other billing partners in the future, for now we're focussed on being the best tool available for these four.

I'm not sure about open sourcing but we certainly thought about having an integration framework/api which would allow anyone to build an integration into ChartMogul.

Looks good! I'm not a prospect, but if you're going to go public, I really think you need to get something up on that page to capture email addresses. ("Sign-up to be notified when we launch" etc...)

We do here: https://chartmogul.com/

Didn't think the blog would get quite so much traffic. You're totally right though :)

How are you getting the data from Braintree? I've tried exporting my data from them before but they don't seem to support an export API. Are you getting raw CC data from them?

You need to setup a read-only API key in your Braintree account which you then paste into your ChartMogul account. You also need to setup a webhook. Once that's setup we take care of everything else via the Braintree API.

There are getting started instructions when you signup to ChartMogul, it's fairly simple to setup.

Hey guys - looks cool. How are you different / better than Baremetrics?

I'm not too familiar with Baremetrics. You would need to try both products and decide which one works best for you. We provide an advanced analytics platform for subscription businesses of any size.

Baremetrics is Stripe only; ChartMogul looks like it is Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, and Recurly.

That's right, and I think you'll find they are quite different looking products, although fulfilling a similar set of requirements.

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