Stripe covers most of what every business needs for accepting payments. For everything else, there are apps. Stripe apps give you the flexibility to pick and choose how you'd like to customize your payment stack - from adding additional metrics, to reducing fraud - a good app can streamline your ability to process payments.
But what makes an app "good"? It should not only should the value is promises, but should also be:
- Easy to set up
- Leverage key Stripe functionality
- Reliable & secure
Since your Stripe app will touch the most sensitive part of your business, your ability to accept payments, it's important the app is built in a secure and reliable way.
The following are a selection of top apps that any merchant accepting payments on Stripe can benefit from.
Top 6 apps in the Stripe App Store
1. Churnkey
Churnkey enables merchants to easily embed cancellation and upsells within their cancellation flows. By turning presenting cancelling customers with an offer, Churnkey is able to manufacture revenue out of would-be departed customers. Churnkey's product is painfully easy to set up, and delivers an attention to detail that only can come from a team that cares.
Churnkey customers experience a standard ROI in the 10-20X range (and have a 5X ROI guarantee), making it our #1 Stripe App pick for 2024.
Pricing: Starting at $250/mo
2. Varos
Varos allows merchants to see key metrics benchmarked against their competitors. For merchants operating in competitive categories, knowing peer metrics can be incredibly valuable. Varos' Stripe app allows merchants to conveniently see comparison graphs directly within their Stripe accounts.
Varos' attention to security through its anonymization of customer data earns it our #2 slot in top Stripe Apps for 2024.
Pricing: Free up to $249/mo
3. Chargeblast
Chargeblast's Stripe app allows merchants to seamlessly avoid chargebacks. By providing a pre-dispute chargeback alert, Chargeblast allows merchants to drive their dispute rate to immaterial levels. Most merchants using Chargeblast experience 95%+ reductions in dispute rates.
For merchants struggling with disputes, Chargeblast is a must have.
Pricing: starts at $19 per avoided chargeback
4. Postmark
Postmark's Stripe app allows you to easily send various transactional email flows directly from Stripe. Need to send a customer an unpaid invoice email, or a churn questionaire email? You can now do this with a few clicks via Postmark's Stripe app. For merchants doing B2B, Postmark's Stripe App is an accounts receivable teams' dream.
Pricing: Starts free, up to $1K/mo for most business plans
5. Mercury
Mercury solidifies itself as the #1 banking platform for startups through it's Stripe app. Mercury's Stripe app allows merchants to see their Mercury balance directly within the Stripe account balance tab. For merchants managing tight working capital, seeing accounts payable / treasury balances directly in Stripe is very convenient.
Pricing: bundled with Mercury
6. Revenew
This one's only for Stripe marketplace accounts, but for Stripe platform accounts this is a must have. Revenew allows merchant of records to have direct line of sight to their net margins. Net margin calculation can be a hazy and complicated process for MORs that have an assortment of upstream fees to pay. Revenew streamlines this process by showing analytics directly within Stripe for marketplace accounts.
Pricing: free to install
