Hello,
Posting here this, as many people here may be looking for a payment processor. Been using fastspring.com for nearly 5 years and 3 days ago I recieved an email saying that I have 60 days before my account is closed. It is not a result of viaolation or anything. They say, the business we are in is not supported by their payment processors anymore and they have to obey them. It is easy to send an email like this but if you consider we have worked hard to accumulate subscribers over years, this is a unfair decision they made. At the end of 4th year we have around 70 subscribers paying monthly. And now, we have to find a new processor, try to reach every subscriber by email to move subsribe with their credit card again with the new processor etc.. We will probably have to close the company as we have leased new servers trusting to income from these subscribers and in 60 days they will be gone thanks to fastpsting.
At the end we will probably lose %90 of the subscribers as this looks too amateur and mainly subscribers will not return.
I am writing here this as some of you may be looking to work with a payment processor. They can send you an email like this some day and all your efforts may go to trash. If you are happy to pay around %9 fee to fastspring for subscriptions etc you may go with patreon.com which has the same fee and better ethics than fastspring.com
Best,
Tufan
Posting here this, as many people here may be looking for a payment processor. Been using fastspring.com for nearly 5 years and 3 days ago I recieved an email saying that I have 60 days before my account is closed. It is not a result of viaolation or anything. They say, the business we are in is not supported by their payment processors anymore and they have to obey them. It is easy to send an email like this but if you consider we have worked hard to accumulate subscribers over years, this is a unfair decision they made. At the end of 4th year we have around 70 subscribers paying monthly. And now, we have to find a new processor, try to reach every subscriber by email to move subsribe with their credit card again with the new processor etc.. We will probably have to close the company as we have leased new servers trusting to income from these subscribers and in 60 days they will be gone thanks to fastpsting.
At the end we will probably lose %90 of the subscribers as this looks too amateur and mainly subscribers will not return.
I am writing here this as some of you may be looking to work with a payment processor. They can send you an email like this some day and all your efforts may go to trash. If you are happy to pay around %9 fee to fastspring for subscriptions etc you may go with patreon.com which has the same fee and better ethics than fastspring.com
Best,
Tufan