What a founder actually needs to know about running a Stripe subscription service, from recurring billing to recovering failed payments, plus how to turn every successful charge into a fresh review.
A plain-English, step-by-step guide to moving recurring billing to bank debit: enable ACH, verify accounts fast, price your subscription, and know exactly what it costs.
The "2.9% plus 30 cents" line is only the start. Here is what a real Stripe fees calculator has to account for, and why the dispute fee is the one worth preventing.
Stripe charges 0.4% per sale to cover fraud disputes, but it leaves the most common chargebacks wide open. Here is what the coverage actually does, and the cheaper fix most merchants ignore.
Xero invoicing does more than send bills. Here is how to create invoices, customize templates, get paid faster, and turn every payment into your next customer.
You do not need a big team or a fat budget to hand off the busywork. Here is what marketing automation for small businesses actually does, what to automate first, and the ROI numbers worth knowing.
Where the setting lives, when it takes effect, how refunds and proration actually work, and how to let customers cancel themselves without opening a support ticket.
The merchant of record definition, minus the jargon. Who is legally the seller, who carries the tax and fraud risk, and when you actually need one.
A plain-English guide to merchant of record services: what they do, how they differ from a plain payment processor, the real Paddle vs Stripe trade-off, and when a flat 5% fee is worth it.
Most cash trouble is not about profit, it is about timing. Here is how to close the gap between earning money and actually holding it.
Monthly guides on review strategy and reputation management. No spam, ever.