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What are the best set of marketing/payment tools for use in startup with a subscription webapp?

5th December 2013

My answer to What are the best set of marketing/payment tools for use in startup with a subscription webapp? on Quora

Stripe has excellent support for subscription payments, including helping manage recurring payments and pro-rataing for upgrades to plans half way through a billing cycle etc. I believe BrainTree offers similar tools.

For email stuff, I strongly recommend looking in to Mailgun—they offer fantastic tools for advanced email sending. They don’t have the same user-level engagement tools as something like Mixpanel or Intercom though.