Difficulty in managing subscription payments across multiple platforms due to varying requirements and limitations of payment processors

Signals over time

2 observed signals across 1 sources, tracked for 8 days. Confidence: low.

What people are saying Observed

• “This. I had to create a temporary card with my banking app (Monzo), then I could switch out the payment method on my adobe account. Then I could cancel the temp card and then finally Adobe can die whilst trying to charge my cancelled card. They wanted me to pay £80 to cancel, I’d had the account for 10 years so no idea what the cancellation related to.”

  Hacker News · frustration

• “If you can’t answer the question below, skip this post. What’s the revenue tax that you are paying? Hint: Revenue tax is a % charge levied by payments processors like Stripe, subscription services like RevenueCat, etc. Orca is the backend monetization orchestration infrastructure we’ve built at Maxint to help us process subscriptions on any platform (iOS, Android, MacOS, Linux, Windows and Web). Apple StoreKit was sufficient when we launched Maxint on iOS, however the launch of our Android app was constrained by Google Play Billing which required us to define the same subscription plans, entitlements and consumables, as well as to implement server side receipt validation to avoid double charges whenever a user attempts to access from a different platform than where they purchased their subscription. We tested RevenueCat, Adapty and a dozen other subscription tools, with limited success on iOS and Android, or maybe Web. However, as we were determined to make Maxint available for any user on any platform, including desktop, we knew that we would need to build a way to handle payments across all platforms. The result was Orca, a monetization orchestration platform supporting all major”

  Hacker News · frustration