Is it simply not a good idea to use Firebase and Stripe for my new SaaS?

[m...@jamesmorr.is]

Hey guys.

I'm trying to look around for backend solutions for my new SaaS idea I have. I can setup servers but I want to have focus... Then I came across Firebase and the idea seemed really interesting. My SaaS would require customers to buy plans using Stripe and I want to make sure that Firebase is something that can be done? I've heard that Zapier is a solution, but how does that work? My customers can pay monthly using Stripe, Zapier passes that to Firebase... But with Zapier's 15 minute lag until it sends those messages, that doesn't seem efficient enough? And from what I could see with the available Zaps, there doesn't seem to be one that picks up people cancelling their subscription from Stripe etc?

So sorry, I'm not great with this stuff... I would love clarity on all of this, and if doing a professional, scalable SaaS on Firebase with Stripe is actually a viable thing? Or should I just go back to my Node/Mongo/VPS solution??

Sorry, any help on this would be fantastic. Would be great :)

Thanks, James

[Michael Wulf]

Hey James,

Firebase may eventually bake in some payment solutions like Stripe, , but for now, as with any payments system, you need to set up a server process to handle the transactional part of the payments (the events that require you to create the sale by pushing your secret key to Stripe with a sales token). The rest of the events can either be done directly via your client app or using Zapier.

Regards,

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[James Morris]

Hey Michael.

Hmm... So I was looking at a service called Torpio. Looks abit like Zapier but more for developers. Looks good... Does anyone have experience with it? Could that work to give integration of Stripe and Firebase you know?

[Vince Stross]

Hi James,

I would suggest you take a look at FoxyCart. I haven't used them in a year or so, but they have a nice solution that allows you to implement a "thick client" e-commerce solution.

V

[Michael Wulf]

I don't see Firebase among their supported services--maybe they should add us :)

[Zoom]

This is something I think Firebase should resolve into a nice demo. For games and many other types of apps there are assets of different types (code and JSON files, graphic and font files, etc) that can be hosted on Firebase and then purchased by app users as upgrades.

It should be as simple as:

• Upload the assets to Firebase

• Search Firebase for a list of assets/modules/extensions that are available for sale

• List those and compare them to the ones the user already owns (in my app I would have a profile per user that records what permissions each user has, a diff can then easily be made and applied)

• Let the user select assets to purchase from the asset list and add them to a shopping cart, which can come from some service like FoxyCart

• Use FoxyCart to handle the payment and then update the users profile, which is stored on Firebase

If this is logical then I'd like to see a Firebase demo soon :)

Zoom On

[Mike]

Checkout webscript.io

"Webscripts are short scripts, written in Lua, that run on our servers. They can respond to HTTP requests or run as cron jobs."

They have a sample for Stripe Payments

https://www.webscript.io/examples/stripe

And one for Stripe Webhooks

https://www.webscript.io/examples/stripewebhook

Mike

[David Caseria]

I've been working on this project to help integrate Firebase + Stripe: https://github.com/davidcaseria/StripeFire.

It still requires a server to run Node.js but it should make integrating the two services very easy.

On Sunday, July 27, 2014 10:29:34 AM UTC-5, m...@jamesmorr.is wrote: