Billing customers for goods and services has undergone a digital transformation, with paperless billing and payments, subscriptions, automated payments, real-time bills, mobile payment services and many more considerations. Developers needing Billing APIs should check out these 10 popular ones.
There was a time when billing customers was a cut and dry situation. A monthly statement was sent to a customer via snail-mail, and a check was written and shipped back to the payee. But like other industries, the billing industry has undergone a digital transformation. Billing statements and payments are now often paperless, and customers have more choices on how to pay. Consumers can use billers’ own websites as well as their own online banks to facilitate payments, or mobile payments and digital payment services such as PayPay, Venmo, Apple Pay, Zelle, Google Pay, Cash App, and the like. Additionally billers have more options on how to bill, including recurring or subscription services, automated real-time payment collecting, and encouraging their own payment service rather than credit cards (which require merchants fees). With all of that to consider, developers wanting to add billing services to applications have a lot to think about. Billing APIs can help. A Billing API is an Application Programming Interface that developers can use to integrate billing services into their own applications. The most convenient place to find these APIs is in the Billing category of the ProgrammableWeb directory. In this article, we highlight the ten most popular Billing APIs as determined by website views on ProgrammableWeb. With the Stripe application, users can keep track of payments, search past payments, create recurring charges, and keep track of customers.
