<story><title>Lessons Learned with Stripe Subscriptions</title><url>https://blog.cronitor.io/lessons-learned-with-stripe-subscriptions-d6c8d408eb1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coffeemug</author><text>I work on Stripe subscriptions. Thanks for the writeup!&lt;p&gt;We have quite a bit planned to improve the subscriptions logic (including fixing the issues mentioned in the post). If you have any questions, suggestions, or feedback, please shoot me an email -- slava@stripe.com. Would love to hear from you and work together to improve the product!</text></comment>
<story><title>Lessons Learned with Stripe Subscriptions</title><url>https://blog.cronitor.io/lessons-learned-with-stripe-subscriptions-d6c8d408eb1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stevekemp</author><text>I love the stripe API, and I like the documentation.  But bear in mind you might want to avoid the subscriptions to cut down on fees.&lt;p&gt;Pretend you sell apples and oranges.  If the user has 3 of each you might be tempted to bill the user for:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   3 * Apple Subscriptions (&amp;#x2F;month).
   3 * Orange Subscriptions (&amp;#x2F;month).
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Do that and the user will be billed correctly, but you&amp;#x27;ll have to pay &lt;i&gt;two&lt;/i&gt; fees.  That really annoys me, as it seems like a money-grab to charge them separately not combine the two payments and then take out the fees.&lt;p&gt;(This contributed to me removing my discounted-pricing plans where you could spend £1 a month for DNS hosting, but then get additional domains at £0.50.  Instead I kept everything at £1 so that I didn&amp;#x27;t have to have different subscription levels.)</text></comment>