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Amazon FPS vs Recurly: What are the differences?
What is Amazon FPS? Charge Amazon’s tens of millions of customers using their Amazon account. With Amazon Flexible Payments Service developers can accept payments on their website for selling goods or services, raise donations, execute recurring payments, and send payments. Amazon customers can pay using the same login credentials, shipping address and payment information they already have on file with Amazon. Amazon FPS supports the processing of payments using credit cards, bank accounts and Amazon Payments account balances to send or receive money.
What is Recurly? Subscription Billing. Zen Simplicity. Recurly is the leading pay-as-you-go recurring billing service because setup is easy, integrations are quick, and our service grows with the needs of your business.
Amazon FPS and Recurly belong to "Payment Services" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Amazon FPS are:
- Accept one time payments on your website for selling physical goods, digital content, and services
- Execute periodic or delayed payment features required by subscription and usage-based services such as digital music and online storage
- Facilitate transactions between a buyer and a third party seller, take a cut of the transaction, and have control over who pays the transaction processing fees
On the other hand, Recurly provides the following key features:
- Subscription Plans
- Account Dashboard
- Dunning Management
Stripe is very well known for its developer experience and great documentation. We considered Recurly and other tools because of the easy tax-automations and subscription handling.
But lately Stripe introduces its own tax-handling feature, and it was just a perfect match for our usecase. Also we are migrating some of our billing to a Pay-per-Use system, wich Stripe supports very well.
Pros of Amazon FPS
- Backed by Amazon2
- Aggregate multiple payments2
- Accept one time payments2
- Periodic or delayed payments2
Pros of Recurly
- Recurring billing20
- Simplicity10
- Works with multiple gateways9
- Supports Value Added Tax9
- Great support & easy to use7
- Simple4
- Amazing3