🆚 PayKickstart vs. Stripe

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
PayKickstart
Stripe

Type

E-commerce platform
Payment service

About

PayKickstart is a multi-featured subscription billing and affiliate management solution that allows you to sell courses, software and other digital products.

Stripe is a payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration.

It supports over 135 currencies, enables direct bank debits and real-time payments, manages subscriptions with smart retry logic, includes machine learning–based fraud detection, and offers the Stripe Connect solution for marketplaces and platforms to route payouts in more than 45 countries.

Headquarters

Wake Forest, North Carolina, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

paykickstart.com #626,159
stripe.com #1,004

Pricing

Free version ❌Free 14-day trial
Starter$99/month
Growth$199/month
Payment processing, US accounts, per transaction
Domestic cards2.9% + 30¢
Manually entered cards3.4% + 30¢
International cards4.4% + 30¢
Currency conversion1%
Payment processing, EU accounts, per transaction
Standard EU cards1.5% + €0.25
Premium EU cards1.5% + €0.25
UK cards2.5% + €0.25
International cards3.25% + €0.25
Currency conversion2%
Post-payment invoices0.4% on transaction total, max $2
Identity$1.50/verification
Tax Basic0.5%/transaction
Tax Complete$1,080+/year
Custom domain$10/month

Categories

E-Commerce › Rank #224
Payments › Rank #121
Payments › Rank #3
Subscriptions › Rank #33
Subscriptions › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Stripe payment service is 648 times more popular than PayKickstart.
Total websites

Market share

Payments
Subscriptions

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Stripe is more popular than PayKickstart in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Germany
France
Canada
Italy
Spain
Netherlands
Ireland

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Stripe is more popular than PayKickstart in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Travel
Entertainment
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#177,551
#254,116
#301,730
#626,159
#672,415
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Name
Rank
#12
#23
#61
#70
#78
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See also

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