Company description
We simplify the enire payments stack to make it fast and easy to accept credit cards and charge for subscriptions.
Described as Stripe, for non-developers (devs love it too)
merchee makes accepting credit cards and charging for subscriptions easy. Signing up takes 30 seconds, you don't need a merchant account or gateway and there's no programming or integrations.
Team
Colin Holowaychuk
Colin is the founder, with over ten years of experience in international online payments, and 15 years in marketing and startup businesses.
He was VP Marketing and Sales, N. America and Senior Product Advisor at NETELLER an online ewallet, like PayPal. The company grew quickly, had an IPO and achieved a market cap of over $2 Billion. When he started revenues were about $800,000 a month. After four years, Colin moved on from NETELLER when their revenues were over $20 million a month, with N. America accounting for over 80%.
He was President of ProBilling, where in less then 3 years Colin built a team that leveraged the unique value proposition of guaranteed online payments and recurring subscriptions in international markets to attract over 5500 merchant customers and tens of thousands of websites.
Colin consults with businesses, helping them manage growth, smooth out the pains of international payment processing and the complexities of subscription management, this ongoing pain lead to the birth of Simplified Ecommerce.
Michael Sikorsky
Investor and Advisor to Simplified Ecommerce, Michael is an active angel investor who has raised more than $10 million over the course of his career for a variety of ventures. Currently he spends the majority of his time working on all things iPhone and iPad in his company Robots and Pencils Inc.
In 2011, Robots and Pencils developed an iPhone/iPad (iOS) App which became the #4 Top Grossing App in the North American iTunes App Store ( World Explorer made for Minecraft). Michael was also proud to be selected as one of Alberta’s 50 Most Influential People in August of 2011.
In 2010, Michael was also honoured as being selected Top 40 under 40 in Calgary, became the Entrepreneur In Residence for the University of Alberta Engineering Faculty, developed a #2 hit iPad App across the UK, and his company Robots and Pencils won the Innovation/Leadership award from Digital Alberta for their iPhone/iPad (iOS) work.
In previous years Michael won the Great Canadian Pitch-Off at the Canadian Venture Forum, sold a company to ThoughtWorks , was named Canada’s Internet Revolutionary by Profit magazine (2007) and spoke at Cyberport Hong Kong, Harvard Business School , MIT, and Stanford .
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Business model
Merchee
What
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If you can type, you can sell-- merchee makes it easy for non-developers to accept credit cards and charge for recurring subscriptions.
Why
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We want to empower everyone to be an entrepreneur.
How
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Signing up takes 30 seconds, you don't need a merchant account or gateway and there's no programming or integrations.
It's easy:
1. Create a buy now link
2. Share your link on all your social networks- twitter, facebook, etc with just a couple clicks or paste your link in your website, button or blog.
3. Get paid directly to your bank account.
Why are you unique?
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merchee makes it fast and painless for anyone to accept credit cards.
Our unique features include:
- Easy recurring subscription billing without programming or integrations.
- Checkout forms are automatically customized to match your website and branding.
- Affiliate & social marketing is built in, affiliates are automatically paid commissions for referred customers.
Competitors
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merchee is easy for non developers- you need to be an experienced developer to integrate with stripe's API.
merchee makes managing and charging for recurring subscriptions simple for anyone, includes social/ affiliate marketing and checkout pages are automatically customized to look just like the Vendor's website.
merchee offers affiliate marketing, checkout pages are automatically customized to look just like the Vendor's website and our fees are 4.5% + $0.45. Clickbank charges 8.9% + $1.
Direct merchant account + gateway + data vault + subscription management software + PCI compliance + ...
merchee Vendors don't need to stitch together a bunch of business relationships and technical integrations.
Team
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We're a team of entrepreneurs with deep startup experience, veterans in the payments space and innovators in the web/ mobile world.
Michael Sikorsky - Investor and Advisor, Co-founder Pencils & Robots
Colin Holowaychuk
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