Stripe
Where Tidify AI subscriptions are billed
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Pay-as-you-go, no monthly fees
My take
Why I use it
Stripe handles every Tidify AI subscription, the free tier, the Pro upgrade, and the monthly billing that keeps it running. It's not part of SVD Online's own payment flow, that's Mollie, but for a recurring SaaS subscription product, Stripe is what I reached for instead.
Breakdown
Pros & cons
✓ What I like
- •Built specifically for recurring subscription billing, not just one-off payments
- •Handles failed payments, retries, and dunning automatically
- •Excellent documentation and a genuinely good API
- •Customer portal for self-service plan changes and cancellations
✗ What to watch out for
- •Overkill if you only need simple one-off payment links
- •Transaction fees add up faster than a flat monthly tool cost at low volume
Review
My full review
Tidify AI runs on a free-plus-Pro subscription model, and Stripe is what actually manages that: signups, monthly billing, failed-payment retries, and letting people upgrade, downgrade, or cancel without me touching anything.
Where Mollie is built around one-off payment links, which is exactly what SVD Online's project deposits and invoices need, Stripe is built around ongoing subscriptions, which is what a SaaS product like Tidify AI needs instead. Different job, different tool, and I wouldn't try to force one into doing the other's work.
The API and documentation are genuinely excellent, and the built-in customer portal means I don't have to build subscription management by hand.