A testimonial for BillingCircle.com
June 24th, 2009
We have been busy launching www.GoTryTHIS.com in beta and Robyn and I have been personally responding to support day and night. Some of those tickets are clients telling us how much we’ve helped their marketing. The appreciation I feel from reading their ultra positive e-mails got me thinking of a service that made our hosted option possible.
Let me introduce you to BillingCircle.com. They provide one-time and adjustable recurring billing through Authorize.net. They have a straightforward API, which we used to integrate their service seamlessly with our own order page and client admin systems.
Dear BillingCircle support,
You and your service made our GoTryTHIS.com hosted service possible. I’m having a great experience with you and have really appreciated the time you’ve spent on the phone explaining things to me when I needed it.
GoTryTHIS has some billing requirements beyond simple recurring billing. Before I found BillingCircle, I spent weeks interviewing the providers of every solution I could find out there. Your competition had already collectively stunned me into accepting that I would have to pay thousands for integration training and many hundreds to thousands ongoing.
I spent over an hour on the phone with each of your competitors and then also with you. I cannot understand how they justify their pricing to get this same functionality. To be fair, they have some cool sounding high-end features. We don’t need them though, and I don’t think most startups need them either. Maybe I’m missing something, but I was left with the impression that they are focused on venture capital funded startups with money to burn. To win our business, one of them kindly offered to cut the introductory special they were having in half, bringing it down to only $500/month to start. That is a disturbing amount of leeway.
Then I found your service, BillingCircle, and I could not take you seriously at first, what with fees starting at just $29 per month. You claimed I could do everything I needed for a very startup-friendly fee! It turns out you were right. BillingCircle, I hope you corner the market your competitors are ignoring!
With your API, integration with our all-in-house systems has been seamless, and was completed within the 30 day free trial you offer, with no setup fees. Nice. Now if clients choose our hosted option, they are automatically charged monthly, each adjusted for their unique overage usage. Cancellations? I click one button in our application’s admin and our client will not get billed again in your system. Clients? We now have hundreds of clients paying monthly with the first of them already starting their third billing period. More come in daily! Recurring income means sustainable business!
Thanks to you, BillingCircle, we started offering the hosted version of GoTryTHIS on day one, which would have come much later otherwise. So, thank you for helping us to already start predictably growing our company and service, with recurring billing reliably taking place in the background, simply and without worry.
John Reel
GoTryTHIS.com
If this sounds like something you need, give them a shout. Again, the direct link is BillingCircle.com.