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PayWhirl

Subscription billing for every business model.

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PayWhirl is a subscription billing platform that enables businesses to sell subscriptions, memberships, payment plans, and recurring invoices without being tied to a single ecommerce platform. It solves the problem of having to rebuild a website or checkout flow around a specific platform by working with existing sites through widgets, hosted pages, customer portals, and an API.

Key capabilities include recurring billing, a customer self-service portal, automated invoices and payment retries, and customizable email templates. The platform offers embeddable widgets, hosted payment links, and API access for custom workflows. It integrates with payment gateways such as Stripe, PayPal, Square, Authorize.Net, and Braintree, as well as ecommerce platforms like Shopify, BigCommerce, Squarespace, and Wix, plus marketing and analytics tools like MailChimp, Google Analytics, and Zapier.

PayWhirl is designed for businesses of any size that want to add recurring billing to an existing website or workflow. It offers a free Starter plan with a per-transaction fee, along with paid plans that reduce transaction fees and add features like priority support, white labeling, and advanced reporting. All plans are available on a month-to-month basis with no long-term contracts, and a free trial is available.

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