Another note if you're doing recurring billing: Check with your payment provider if you can get your customer payment data out ever. At my previous startup, we were locked into PayPal because they wouldn't release the consumer CC#s and it's never good for business to have to ask your customers to input their payment info a second time (attrition is inevitable). This time, we did a bit more research and our two top payment services (braintree and trustcommerce) both allowed full data portability (with a fee).
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Another note if you're doing recurring billing: Check with your payment provider if you can get your customer payment data out ever. At my previous startup, we were locked into PayPal because they wouldn't release the consumer CC#s and it's never good for business to have to ask your customers to input their payment info a second time (attrition is inevitable). This time, we did a bit more research and our two top payment services (braintree and trustcommerce) both allowed full data portability (with a fee).