Ask HN: Platform for recurring micro transactions

6 points by bwagy 11 years ago | 2 comments

My wife wants to sell a digital product $1-$5/month and I'm having a look for a nice platform that could process it and/or provide the platform for selling it.

MalcolmDiggs 11 years ago |

On the payments side:

Recurly might be what you're looking for. Though Stripe, Braintree, and Paypal all have options for subscription billing.

If you're looking for a more holistic CMS/solution:

Shopify seems popular (I believe they partnered with RecurHub to offer subscription billing). In my opinion SquareSpace offers the nicest designs/templates, but I'm not sure if they let you setup subscriptions or not.

147 11 years ago |

A problem with selling something for so cheap is that the fees will usually eat your margins. Perhaps your wife can sell it for a higher price and package in a few months at a time? This way you'll reduce the number of times you get hit by a flat transaction fee.