What is Payola?
Payola provides a complete solution for accepting Stripe payments within a Rails application. It is focused on selling items one at a time and includes a drop-in partial for setting up a Stripe Checkout button, along with a complete server-side asynchronous processing system for completing payments with Stripe.
Payola is a tool in the SaaS for Stripe category of a tech stack.
Payola is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Payola's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Payola?
Payola Integrations
Payola's Features
- An easy to embed, easy to customize, async Stripe Checkout button
- Asynchronous payments, usable with any background processing system
- Full webhook integration
- Easy extension hooks for adding your own functionality
Payola Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Payola?
PayPal
PayPal is an online payments and money transfer service that allows you to send money via email, phone, text message or Skype. They offer products to both individuals and businesses alike, including online vendors, auction sites and corporate users. PayPal connects effortlessly to bank accounts and credit cards.
PayPal Mobile is one of PayPal’s newest products. It allows you to send payments by text message or by using PayPal’s mobile browser.
Stripe
Stripe makes it easy for developers to accept credit cards on the web.
Braintree
Braintree replaces traditional payment gateways and merchant accounts. From one touch payments, to mobile SDKs and international sales, we provide everything you need to start accepting payments today.
Blockchain
It is a bitcoin block explorer service, as well as a cryptocurrency wallet supporting bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ethereum.
Stripe Billing
A set of billing and subscription tools for developers and business people. Developers can use out-of-the-box functionality to get started quickly or use the composable API building blocks to design fully customized subscription logic and pricing models. Business people can create and manage subscriptions and invoices—and view detailed financial reports.