Question 1

What are the benefits of using subscription management software?

Accepted Answer

Subscription management software simplifies the billing process, and can reduce involuntary churn and increase customer and revenue retention. Features like lifecycle management, flexible pricing models, and invoicing automations let you spend less time on manual processes and more time focusing on growth. Subscription management tools like Stripe Billing also give you visibility into metrics like monthly recurring revenue (MRR) and churn rates, so you can make faster decisions with centralized reporting.

Question 2

What does Stripe’s subscriptions solution include and what are the costs?

Accepted Answer

With Stripe’s subscriptions solution, you get tools designed to help you handle recurring billing. This includes 15+ pre-built pricing models (from usage-based and hybrid models to sales-sold contracts), revenue retention automations, centralized analytics, and automated invoicing. Pricing is available as a monthly-paid annual plan or a pay-as-you-go plan. For details on pricing and regional considerations, visit the Billing section of our pricing page.

Question 3

What types of subscription models does Stripe support?

Accepted Answer

Stripe supports more than 15 pricing models—with Stripe Billing powering recurring and subscription plans, and Metronome powering usage-based, hybrid, and custom sales-led contracts. If you have specific requirements, you can also build a custom solution using the Stripe subscriptions API, or add custom billing logic directly into Stripe with first-, second-, or third-party apps.

Question 4

What’s the difference between Stripe Billing and other subscription management tools?

Accepted Answer

Stripe Billing is the only billing provider with a built-in payment system. That integration means AI-powered payments optimizations and subscription management tools work together to help you recover more revenue at every stage of the customer journey. Stripe’s AI-powered features and tools are trained on billions of data points across an economy-sized network, helping increase checkout conversion, boost authorization rates, reduce fraud, and strengthen revenue recovery rates—all on a platform with 99.999% uptime.