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Let me know if there is anything preventing you from using Snappy Checkout. It does a lot right now, but I'm willing to make it better if it won't work for your business is-is.

I did ask three questions via an edit. I suspect you missed because I only added them after the fact. We are seriously looking at Snappy Checkout.

I did miss them. Sorry :(

A: When accepting Stripe payments via Snappy Checkout, all of your customer data is still available in Stripe. If you left Snappy Checkout to use something else, the only thing that would not work is subscriptions. I don't use Stripe's system for subscriptions -- that is all handled in Snappy Checkout. And, if it really proves to be insufficient, I'd like to make it work for you if possible.

A2: Snappy Checkout creates customers in Stripe's system. So, you could still charge existing customers if you found another 3rd party system that allowed that. I don't think it's possible to charge existing customers from Stripe's admin right now.

A3: Good question. I'm not sure though -- a possible import process maybe? I suppose that would be tough since Stripe/PayPal hold all of the credit card data. My goal is certainly not to push people away when a roadblock is encountered. I'd like to make Snappy Checkout work for anyone.

Correction: For existing Stripe customers, you can create new charges/subscriptions from the Stripe admin.

I don't think it's possible to charge existing customers from Stripe's admin right now.

I don't think this is correct. Stripe (and the Stripe Admin UI) gives you enormous power to charge/upgrade/downgrade/enroll existing customers.

I'm curious, why did you choose to implement your own subscriptions, instead of utilizing Stripe's? This is a much more appealing option if its a clean integration that simply leverages all of Stripe's features (MoonClerk does this well).

Stripe did not offer subscriptions when I built that feature in Snappy Checkout.

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