Bridging the Gap: Stripe Notifications

http://blog.sendwithus.com/2013/10/03/bridging-the-gap-with-stripe/

by mrmch • 13 years ago

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Totally wish I had this for a project I worked on recently. Stripe is bad-ass, but implementing the bag of standard emails to tell customers about payment "events" of various types was a PITA.

mrmch7• 13 years ago

Thanks! We've got several templates for each event, with all the right variables in place -- it should be dead-simple to get going :)

zabeth24• 13 years ago

I've really been needing something like this. Can't wait to dive in and automate my emails.

senorprogrammer• 13 years ago

The "no code" aspect is bandied about a lot but it looks legit in this case. That's extremely attractive; sending common automated emails should really not need development team effort. Nice work!

mrmch7• 13 years ago

You literally connect Stripe to us, create a template, and then connect it with your ESP (SendGrid/Mailgun/Mandrill/etc). No code, I promise!

zrail• 13 years ago

This looks really nice, and the zero-code aspect especially. A friend of mine just released a zero-code SaaS that specifically handles the dunning aspect called ChurnBuster[1] which is already saving customers on the order of thousands of dollars in LTV. I also talk about how to properly handle Stripe events in a Rails app in my ebook Mastering Modern Payments, if that's more the thing you're looking for. [2]

[1] http://churnbuster.io/

[2] https://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments

bliggy• 13 years ago

Seems like a good tool. Looking forward to trying it out. There are a bunch of other integrations like shopify that would also be great!

mrmch7• 13 years ago

Thanks bliggs! We're looking at many different integrations, good to know what people think would be valuable.

frankdenbow• 13 years ago

Perfect timing, was going to add this in as we are losing people due to credit card failures so sending these emails is crucial. Definitely giving it a try

mrmch7• 13 years ago

That's awesome -- you can hit me up at matt@sendwithus.com with any feedback, I'd love to hear what you think. Also willing to give out HN-discounts, just ask :)

rfelix2121• 13 years ago

Also check out Stunning: https://bestunning.net

We've been doing dunning for Stripe from the beginning, support a ton of email types and events, have an iPhone app with push notifications of payments and other important events, payment update pages for your customers to easily update billing info, and we can even send out emails before cards expire.

mrmch7• 13 years ago

Hey Richard! We're big fans of stunning -- I think we hit very different markets as well, as we're looking at companies that want to integrate payment and dunning emails into the same workflow as the rest of their transactional email.

I think the number of apps you've put it is really amazing and you've got an awesome portfolio; keep kicking ass :)

cjaredrun• 13 years ago

to code or not to code... this looks almost <i>too</i> enticing.

mrmch7• 13 years ago

Try the integration, if you don't like it, you can always code it later ;)

ajtaylor• 13 years ago

At $work (in Australia) we use EWay as our payment provider so the Stripe integration obviously won't help me. However, dunning emails would be very helpful to our head of sales in her qoal of meeting monthly sales targets. Is there a more generic sendwithus product I could use? The three events mentioned in the post would be perfect.

mrmch7• 13 years ago

Hey AJ, send me an email (matt@sendwithus.com) and I'll see what we can do -- we're always looking for more integrations!

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