Chargify Makes Recurring Billing Simple

We (Braintree) are one of the gateway and merchant account providers that Chargify supports.

When choosing a payment gateway, merchants need to be aware that most providers will hold stored credit card data hostage. It’s a huge problem with significant implications.

We created the Credit Card Data Portability Standard to address this problem: http://bit.ly/a0i86v

I don't understand the economics here.

You still have to pay Authorize.net (or whatever gateway) and then ontop of that have a monthly fee to Chargify....

Surely better to drop a one-off development cost on software to sit in Chargify's place, bespoke to your site...

I use Chargify in my app and it's absolutely brilliant and totally wonderful.