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I'm assisting in development of a backend for a painting service that works with many contractors across the US. We've been using Stripe, but the business has been paying the contractors using their bank's ACH service add-on which takes 3-5 days and has to be done manually.
Balanced seems like it's Stripe + next-day ACH payouts with a great API, automating everything. Is this an accurate description of the service? I'm confused why you'd ever use Stripe over Balanced in that case. This is assuming it's also a merchant account + payment gateway like Stripe if I'm reading correctly.
Still wrapping my head around how to best make this work. Thanks everyone.
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Every customer in Stripe Billing has a credit balance that you can issue credit and debit adjustments against. Adjustments in the credit balance could be a credit (meaning you owe them money) or a debit (meaning they owe you money).
Square offers better POS hardware and solutions, while Stripe is better for online stores. They both integrate with third-party tools. Stripe is better overall for integrating with third-party apps. They both offer a variety of customer support channels.
Stripe is regularly recommended by web developers and e-commerce specialists. It has a 4.7-star rating on Capterra with over 2,000 reviews. Negative reviews talked about problems with support and unwarranted customer refunds.
If your business engages in a high volume of sales – either in person or online – and you want the ability to accept many forms of payment, then Stripe is the better option. However, PayPal may be a better choice if you already use the platform to send invoices and receive payments for your small business.
In a nutshell the fundamental difference is that Stripe focuses on bringing money in to your account, Balanced focuses on bringing money in, holding it until an order to fulfilled, and paying out to your merchants.
You can use Stripe to collect money and Balanced to pay out easily enough, the biggest problem you'll run into is that there will be a liquidity problem as you have to transfer funds from your Stripe to Balanced before you can pay out or create a float of 7 days.
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Stripe is also great if you have sub-agents or affiliates that you want to have run the sale, but where you take a percentage of the total charge as well. We recently implemented this for a cause oriented site that supports the collection of donations for smaller and more personal causes. It is one of the more interesting features of the Stripe API. Sub accounts can be created on the fly and activated via a simple email validation creating a one-stop shop for configuring online affiliate programs.
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