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I'm currently evaluating whether Firebase will be suitable for an app I am making. The only potential sticking point I have found is taking payments - what are the options currently available?
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Using a few different Firebase features and Stripe, you can process payments in your web app without building your own server infrastructure.
However, with Firebase we are able to use existing payment processors such as PayPal or Stripe, to handle communication with the credit card APIs.
Firebase also allows free setup with no credit card. The Spark plan. You don't get a "server" but you can run cloud functions for free. The Cloud functions do have some limitations.
Firebase offers a no-cost tier pricing plan for all its products. For some products, usage continues at no cost no matter your level of use. For other products, if you need high levels of use, you'll need to switch your project to a paid-tier pricing plan.
Firebase is a real-time data store, focused on lightning-fast, scalable solutions for sharing data between hundreds to millions of clients simultaneously. It does not offer any payment processing solutions internally.
A third party service like Stripe will integrate quite easily with Firebase, and tools like Zapier can help with pushing data from Stripe back into Firebase upon completion of transactions.
Generally, the process looks something like this:
An advantage of this approach is that your are not storing any credit card or sensitive data and therefore are not subject to PCI compliance and stringent bank/e-commerce regulations.
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