Replace Stripe Billing
Plans, proration and invoices managed in Stripe's dashboard rather than yours.
Why teams move off Stripe Billing
A percentage of billing volume to manage subscription state in Stripe's dashboard rather than your own database.
What you give up
Nothing on the payments side — Pay integrates with Stripe rather than replacing it. What changes is where the state lives.
This directory says so when an engine only covers part of the job. A replacement that needs a caveat is still worth knowing about — it just should not surprise you in week three.
1 Rails engine that replaces Stripe Billing
Questions
- Is there an open-source alternative to Stripe Billing for Rails?
- Yes — Pay. It mounts into an application you already run, so there is no second deployment and no second database.
- What do I give up by replacing Stripe Billing?
- Nothing on the payments side — Pay integrates with Stripe rather than replacing it. What changes is where the state lives.
- How do I replace Stripe Billing in a Rails app?
- Add pay to your Gemfile, mount it in config/routes.rb at /pay, and run its migrations. The whole integration is two lines and a migration.
- How much does replacing Stripe Billing save?
- Stripe Billing is priced 0.5%–0.8% of billing volume. The engines here are open source, so the cost becomes the time to mount one and the resources it uses inside your existing application.
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