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vivid parcel Jan 3, 2022, 9:00 PM

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Hello, what are your questions?

thick atlas Jan 3, 2022, 9:01 PM

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B2B SaaS company in the creator space - image Patreon but focused on fitness creators.

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We are using Stripe today to bill creators for infrastructure usage on our platform - per attendee type costs.

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We are getting asked by some of them to build out an end member billing thing - so we charge the creator's members for them, then take a commission of that. Sort of like a Vimeo enabling their customers to run subscription services etc.

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Looked at Chargebee and others, but they are really just designed for us to bill our clients, not for our clients to bill their members. So like a bill through like a creator marketplace kind of a deal

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End members would have options for per month subscriptions (unlimited) and class packs (one session or multiple like a 5 class pack).

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Been looking at the Stripe APIs for this.

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Creators also want integration into external CRM like HubSpot and if possible accounting like Xero and Quickbooks. Again the subscription management companies tend to offer this, they just don't work for marketplace kind of deals.

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So ......... trying to figure out how much of this is easy with Stripe APIs, or how much of a heavy lift it would be?

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Like I saw the subscription APIs

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Funny that it's almost easier to chat to developers at Stripe than anyone on the product / sales side. Someone from the Stripe growth team emailed me out of the blue saying they were here to help like 2 months ago, but I sent 3 replies and she's ghosted me ever since 😆

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does what we're trying to do make sense?

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so cool that you have this direct chat btw

vivid parcel Jan 3, 2022, 9:20 PM

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Okay caught up and I think I have a good idea of what you are trying to do. So is a sticking point charging your creators as well as your customers?

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And how much have you looked at our offerings on this? For example have you looked in to Stripe Connect which is typically how marketplaces are set up with Stripe? https://stripe.com/docs/connect#start-with-a-guide

late shell Jan 4, 2022, 1:42 AM

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@thick atlas hello, this thread?

thick atlas Jan 4, 2022, 1:42 AM

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yep

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Tammy Chan from Stripe emailed me a few months back saying she could be a POC, does she still work there?

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maybe my replies to her went in her spam or something

late shell Jan 4, 2022, 1:57 AM

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She is still at Stripe as far as I can see. Feel free to email to her/open a new Support thread. I will ping her just for sure

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sent her a nudge!

late shell Jan 4, 2022, 2:33 AM

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Hello, can you give your email address that you had a conversation with Tammy? Will be happy to forward to her

thick atlas Jan 4, 2022, 3:01 AM

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justin.marston@tribe.fitness

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I can forward you the thread if you like

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She sent me two cold emails, responded to my first reply, then ghosted the next three when I did want to talk about using these Stripe APIs 😄

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maybe it is going into spam?

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you can probably ping her on slack or something.

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k off to the gym ... 🙂

late shell Jan 4, 2022, 3:07 AM

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I see here last email in the bottom...?

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