Overcoming payment problems with the Billing API

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Payments and billing were also a big challenge that SidePanda anticipated, but working with the Billing API reduced the level of effort required to process charges for merchants using the app.

“When we were building on GitHub and Slack the major problem was we had to create our own payment processing system,” Agarwal says. “That’s a big plus point with Shopify, especially when there are cancellations and refunds, which are pain points with handling payments.”

There was also an international aspect to payments with Shopify apps that helped SidePanda launch their apps.

“One more reason we chose Shopify, with respect to the payment part is, it ghana phone data has enabled us to take payments from all over the world,” Chaware says. “For example, if we want to integrate Stripe on an independent platform, it’s currently difficult in India as we’d have to set up a business customer entity. So there’s a major hurdle there to charging online..”

“All in all, building our first Shopify app was pretty simple” Agarwal confirms. “It was easy to work with the Polaris components, implement the Billing API, and understand the documentation. All this made our lives a lot easier.

“Our goal was to release an app in two or three weeks, but with all the help we were able to submit an app for review in just 10 days,” Agarwal adds. “It basically boils down to Shopify wanting us to focus on the merchant problem. All the other aspects of app-building, they can support us with.”