Stripe [hot]

Stripe recently doubled down on (and the acquisition of Metronome). You can now create granular pricing models—per-seat, per-GB, hybrid, tiered—without a single line of SQL code. If you aren't using Stripe Billing, you are likely leaving money on the table by offering pricing plans that are too rigid for modern buyers.

: For high-volume businesses, Stripe’s standard pay-as-you-go pricing can become more expensive than customized traditional merchant accounts. stripe

Stripe succeeded because it realized that payments are not a financial problem—they are an infrastructure problem. By transforming a fragmented, archaic banking network into a clean set of developer APIs, Stripe did for commerce what Amazon Web Services did for cloud computing. Stripe recently doubled down on (and the acquisition