Stripe™️ is great. Everybody loves Stripe™️. It is powerful, flexible, reliable, and easy to start. It integrates with everything, even with my smart toaster. They have a fancy website and a handsome founder—pure joy.
But there is a cohort of people who can't enjoy it. I'm talking about people from these countries: 🇦🇷 Argentina, 🇨🇱 Chile, 🇨🇳 China, 🇨🇴 Colombia, 🇪🇬 Egypt, 🇮🇱 Israel, 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan, 🇰🇼 Kuwait, 🇵🇪 Peru, 🇵🇭 Philippines, 🇶🇦 Qatar, 🇷🇺 Russia, 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia, 🇰🇷 South Korea, 🇹🇼 Taiwan, 🇹🇷 Turkey, 🇺🇦 Ukraine, 🇺🇾 Uruguay, 🇻🇪 Venezuela, 🇻🇳 Vietnam.
That is approximately 2.56 billion people (thx ChatGPT)!
So what
So I made a website that aggregates all the payment service providers other than Stripe™️ in one place: https://stripealternatives.com/ It is intended for small indie makers like myself and many people from dev.to who create their own paid apps.
Why
The main goal is to show other options for people from these countries. I do not them to be sad they can't use the most popular payment service. It is not a problem. There are dozens of competitors to choose from!
I also want to promote the Stripe™️ competitors because it has too huge % of the market. And the monopoly can make things bad.
The data
I listed the payment services I used in my SaaS building experience. But I worked with only 6 of them. So I used the power of GPT4 and Reddit to add more items. I hope that you will also help me to organize the list. There could be mistakes and incorrect data. Please feel free to commit changes in the comments here. I will apply them all.
Disclaimer: The project "stripealternatives.com" is not affiliated with Stripe™️®©. STRIPE is a trademark of STRIPE, INC. Please do not sue me.
Top comments (6)
This is a great idea. I would suggest adding a filter for "marketplace" which is like a stripe connect thing, I don't know what the official name of this model is.
Also what I found when searching for myself is that most providers just allow checkouts / payin, but not payouts via api, by payouts I mean payout to any account, not just to self.
Thanks for the idea. I will add the filter for 'marketplaces'.
Great list!
One thing that is important to my workplace is who pays the fees.
We use Paymentus at the moment because they push the fees for use to the consumer so that we get the full amount of the fee and it doesn't cut into the bottom line.
The pricing, or even simpler, the possibility of passing the fees of use to the customer, would be a great data point here too.
Wow I did not know you could ask customers to pay the fees. Is Paymentus the only tool that allows that?
cool, I actually spent some time doing same research. Didn't know there are so many of these tools
Thanks John!