How should I accept payments from pilot customers?
Is it best for me to set up an entire Stripe integration with my website, or before a public launch should I just ask my first customers to venmo me? Would that make my project look unprofessional and worth less to them? It's a B2B SaaS and I plan to have monthly recurring payments.
I’d go for Stripe because you’ll seem more professional, especially as a B2B SaaS. It’s really not that bad, they’ve made it easy to integrate payment collection and a few webhooks to get you started.
It all depends on the resources you have and whether you are a B2B or B2C business.
In the pilot phase I would not put in a payments component - because it could create a lot of holes that you might not want. Try to do things manually at this point - talk to each customer and charge them manually
I had the first one Venmo me just to verify people are willing to pay. Then I setup a quick solution using a no-code platform.
Maybe down the line I’ll build a fully custom one but for now it’s been working great.