Payment Gateway
Collect recurring subscription revenue with integrated payment processing. Plans are mapped to billing cycles and the admin view shows active, cancelled and expired accounts at a glance.
Recurring billing
Monthly and yearly charge cycles.
Lifecycle states
Active, cancelled and expired tracking.
Plan mapping
Pricing tiers wired directly to the gateway.
Admin overview
Full user billing visibility in the CMS.
Web billing versus in-app purchase
On television, how you take money is partly decided for you. Roku Pay, Google Play Billing, Amazon in-app purchase and Samsung Checkout each take a share of the revenue, and the platform store policies decide when you are allowed to bill outside them. Signing up on the web and only signing in on the TV avoids store commission but adds friction on a device where typing an email address means a D-pad and an on-screen keyboard.
Most services end up running both: store billing where the platform requires it, and web or mobile checkout everywhere else. That means one subscriber can have a store-managed subscription or a direct one, and the entitlement layer has to treat both identically.
Recurring billing and failed payments
Recurring charges follow the plan cycle, and the interesting part is what happens when a charge fails. Expired cards and insufficient funds are ordinary events at scale, so a retry schedule, a grace period during which access continues, and clear in-app messaging recover a meaningful share of subscriptions that would otherwise churn silently.
Subscription state is mirrored back into the platform - active, cancelled, expired - so entitlement follows billing automatically instead of needing manual reconciliation.
Compliance and tax
Card data is handled by the gateway, keeping the platform in the lightest PCI DSS scope rather than storing card numbers. In Europe, Strong Customer Authentication applies to the initial transaction, with subsequent recurring charges exempt when the mandate is set up correctly - a detail that silently breaks renewals when it is not.
Digital services VAT is charged in the customer country, which the gateway can calculate and report. Store-billed subscriptions are handled by the store instead, which is one of the reasons store billing remains attractive despite the commission.
Frequently asked questions
- Which payment providers do you integrate?
- Standard card gateways such as Stripe or Adyen for direct billing, plus the platform stores - Roku Pay, Google Play Billing, Amazon IAP and Samsung Checkout - where store billing is required.
- Do we have to use in-app purchase on TV?
- It depends on the platform and how the app presents signup. Some stores require their billing for subscriptions sold inside the app; a sign-in-only app with web signup is the common way to avoid commission.
- How are refunds and chargebacks handled?
- Through the gateway or the store that took the payment. The resulting subscription state change is reflected back into the platform so entitlement follows automatically.