Running a digital business today means more than sending invoices.
You might sell subscriptions, digital downloads, services, or even domain names: all online, often across different tools.
But here’s the problem:
Most billing systems were never built for this kind of business.
PayRequest
Platforms like Stripe Billing, Shopify, or Chargebee work fine if you sell one type of product — but once you add subscriptions, client logins, or automation, things fall apart.
Invoices live in one tool, subscriptions in another, emails in a third.
Your customers end up lost between payment links and PDFs — and you end up managing the chaos.
1. Why the Old Tools Fall Short
Most billing tools were designed for a different time, when businesses sold one type of product and customer relationships ended after payment.
Today, digital companies run on recurring income, services, downloads, and constant customer interaction.
Yet the tools meant to help them still focus only on transactions, not the full customer experience.
A. Stripe handles payments: not your business
Stripe is great for collecting money, but that’s all it does.
There’s no real customer portal, no product management, and no built-in way to automate what happens after payment.
You still need to:
- Send customers download links manually
- Tag or email them in a separate tool
- Manage subscriptions in a dashboard built for developers
For small teams and service businesses, it’s too technical and too limited.
B. Shopify is made for physical shops: not digital products
Shopify is amazing for selling T-shirts and gadgets.
But for digital-first companies — selling templates, software, or subscriptions — it feels heavy and disconnected.
You end up with:
- A store page that doesn’t fit your workflow
- Payment logic that can’t handle custom services
- No true link between billing and customer actions
You sell online — but your tools still think you run a retail shop.
C. Other billing tools are stuck in the past
Legacy systems like WHMCS or Blesta were built for hosting companies 10 years ago.
They’re complex, self-hosted, and not designed for modern, cloud-based workflows.
Even newer “SaaS billing” tools make you connect ten different services to do one simple thing:
get paid, deliver, and notify your customer.
2. What Digital Companies Actually Need
Digital companies don’t just need a payment gateway.
They need a simple way to manage billing, products, and customers in one place.
That means:
- 💬 A Customer Portal where clients can pay invoices, download products, and manage subscriptions.
- 🛍️ A built-in Shop for digital products and services — not just a payment link.
- 🔁 Automations that handle renewals, follow-ups, and delivery automatically.
- 🧩 Integrations with providers like Mollie, OpenProvider, and Postmark (for sending emails to customers).
Digital businesses don’t want to code — they want tools that work together.
3. Why We Built PayRequest
PayRequest was created to fix exactly this problem.
Instead of juggling multiple systems, PayRequest gives you one platform where you can:
- Manage invoices, subscriptions, and customers
- Sell digital products, domains, or services
- Automate actions after payment
- Communicate with customers directly via email (using Postmark)
- Offer a Customer Portal where clients can log in, pay, and access their files or subscriptions
No Zapier, no coding, no broken connections — just everything in one place.
4. A Better Way to Run a Digital Business
Billing should not be a separate system.
It should be part of your business flow — connected to your products, automations, and customers.
That’s why PayRequest combines:
- Payments (via Mollie and others)
- Automation (built-in workflows)
- App Store (connect services like Cloudflare, Postmark, and OpenProvider)
- Customer Portal & Shop (for subscriptions, downloads, and renewals)
All designed for the way digital businesses actually work.
5. The Bottom Line
Most billing tools were built to send invoices.
Digital businesses need billing that runs the business — from payment to delivery to automation.
💬 Billing shouldn’t be a problem you manage. It should be a system that manages itself.
That’s what PayRequest was built for.
One platform. One portal. Endless possibilities.
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