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What do you like best about FastSpring?

First and foremost is the new and improved interface. It is also convenient that we can select a large number of currencies for payments and our clients are comfortable paying in local currencies rather than dollars. Taxes and the amount charged are clearly displayed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FastSpring?

Sometimes problems arise when searching for a payment "by the last four digits of a bank card". It takes a very long time to load and often gives an error when searching. Also, work needs to be done on better protection against fraudulent payments. The protection is there now, but it is of an average level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FastSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

A problem for customers has been solved, namely the correct display of taxes and the choice of local currency. Very convenient reports and easy customization of our shop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FastSpring Overview

What is FastSpring?

FastSpring—your full-service ecommerce partner. FastSpring’s easy-to-use global ecommerce platform includes all of the features your company needs to sell more, stay lean, and reach a global audience. If you do not recognize a charge and would like us to get you a receipt, or suspect that the charge is fraudulent, we can quickly investigate and help you resolve the issue. Visit questionacharge.com.

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Product Description

FastSpring is the trusted ecommerce partner for companies that sell software around the world. With FastSpring’s full-service ecommerce solution, you can sell more, stay lean, and compete big.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

FastSpring is more than a merchant of record. We're more than an ecommerce platform. We are a full-service ecommerce partner and work as an extension of your team right from the start, providing ecommerce and subscription expertise, as well as growth plans & services for maximizing online revenue through feature adoption, affiliate marketing, fraud prevention, and much more. We are invested in the success of our sellers, and partner with them to grow their business globally.

Our platform is designed with all of the features software companies need to sell more, stay lean, and compete big. With FastSpring powering a world-class ecommerce experience, companies can focus on what they do best—building great software.


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Year Founded
2005
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Santa Barbara, CA
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@FastSpring
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161 employees on LinkedIn®
Phone
+1.805.409.9008
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FastSpring provides a global, all-in-one e-commerce, merchandising and fulfillment solution for selling desktop software, SaaS, games, e-books or other digital products online. The company is focused on customer service, flexibility, and reasonable pricing. FastSpring's solution provides clients with a feature-rich and highly intuitive administrative UI called SpringBoard, and hyper-responsive support, both of which have earned it praise, respect and loyalty from its many clients.


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Global infrastuture Good custmer support They solve problems Numbers of payment modes Offring discounts Cool e commerce brand Providing solu...
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What do you like best about FastSpring?

Global infrastuture

Good custmer support

They solve problems

Numbers of payment modes

Offring discounts

Cool e commerce brand

Providing solutions over worldwide Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FastSpring?

Pricing is little bit high

Limited customization options

Keep trying to reduce price

Bring more customization options

At te price section and more cutomization options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FastSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

FastSpring's solutions benefit software companies and digital product sellers by simplifying the e-commerce process, expanding their global reach, ensuring secure digital product delivery, handling compliance and tax-related challenges, and offering reliable customer support. By leveraging FastSpring's platform, businesses can focus on their core competencies while leaving the complexities of digital commerce to the experts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FastSpring?

I am selling products online for many years. I used 2-3 payment processors but I faced many troubles. One of my friends told me about FastSpring and now I can say that my decision was right. I have never faced any issue because their customer support is best. They always reply very fast. Thanks, FastSpring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FastSpring?

There should be a woocommerce plugin that will help us a lot. Because a lot of sellers are using woocommerce and they want to integirate FastSpring with woocommerce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FastSpring:

I highly recommend FastSpring to others who want to start or they are running an online business. I am sure you will be never disappointed because I am using their services for many years. You will definitely love FastSpring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FastSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

No dought FastSpring is one of the best payment processor. I made a one time setup and now I just take a rest. FastSpring handles every thing because their support system is very quick and strong. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FastSpring?

What I like best about FastSpring is how they have simplified the complexity of ecommerce for businesses who only want to know their own business and want to sell online. They have knowledgeable and helpful account managers and support staff and an outstanding team of designers/developers based on the quality and ease of use of the FastSpring platform. FastSpring is reactive to customer needs and regularly updates the platform to meet customer and legal requirements with minimal disruption to their users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FastSpring?

It smacks of Stepford perhaps, but the only thing I dislike is that we didn't find them earlier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FastSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

FastSpring provides us with a seamless solution to selling our products online. Using their app we were able to quickly and easily build an online store that fits in with our already established website. We needed to generate and distribute license keys for our downloads, and FastSpring offers several methods. We also needed to sell worldwide in many currencies and ensure that our customers were not being penalised on exchange rate. The side benefits have been considerable. With FastSpring as "Merchant of Record" we do not have the additional complexity of negotiating international tax and data laws. All payments are centraslised through FastSpring: we receive a sale notification, then a well-ordered sequence of events leads to the proceeds arriving in our Paypal managed wallet (also organised by Fastspring). The fee for all this is on a per-sale basis and is relatively minimal compared with other solutions we looked at. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Thank you Anabel! We’re so glad you’re happy with our service!

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What do you like best about FastSpring?

We are selling our software online through the store that FastSpring provides. We love the platform and the solution. But the dashboard usability could definitely use some improvements. It's getting there but slower than we'd all want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FastSpring?

The UI of the their new dashboard. Maybe it's because we're used to the classic dashboard (which is still available) but they did move all of the options to the new dashboard that were available previously. This made our transition into the new dashboard very long and confusing. There are still some tasks that make me use both dashboard to get it done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FastSpring:

It's great but please be aware that if you're also looking for the proper affiliate set up, you'll need to use their partner dashboard from Impact Radius. This creates some clutter whereas we'd expect 1 place to manage all of your e-commerce and affiliates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FastSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

We solve the problem of letting users purchase our software legally through a safe payment system that they can trust. FastSpring has been around for long enough to be trusted. The team behind FastSpring is very responsive, so any problem that we may have related to e-commerce, FastSpring is there to help us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FastSpring?

I run a software business and I was recommended Fastspring by a friend who works in my same field. Fastspring is great, as a busy developer I needed a service for fast and reliable shopping experience for my customers. Fastspring delivers exactly this. Also, their customer service is top-notch, they helped me countless times when I needed to customize my storefront. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FastSpring?

Really nothing, I can't find any particular shortcoming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FastSpring:

If you're a small business owner like myself and want to concentrate on your products rather than paperwork, taxes bureoucracy and payment security, I warmly recommed giving Fastspring a go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FastSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

my customers are from all over the globe, I don't need to worry about the security of their payment data, which would be otherwise a major concern for my activity. Also, dealing with VAT and MOSS in Europe would be an headache for me, with Fastspring I can delete all of that from my list. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FastSpring?

The fact that the complexity of having to deal with multiple sales tax issues across worldwide sales is completely removed when using FastSpring is a significant advantage in itself, but there are many other benefits including, but not limited to the following;

The online help is excellent with clear guides showing how to implement any required scenario. For the few times that I have needed to contact technical support their knowledge, and response times, have been first-rate.

The flexible integration options between the product site and FastSpring. For example if a customer is logged into the product site when clicking on a purchase link, information can be passed to FastSpring and this information can be used during the license generation process when a purchase is made.

Numerous software licensing fulfillment options.

New products are simple to set up by duplicating an existing product with options to change product specific attributes.

When customers (usually sales tax exempt entities) have had questions about sales tax I have directed them to FastSpring customer support, and the feedback from those customers was that FastSpring’s response was excellent.

The ability to generate a custom quotation for a customer and then simply send the link to the customer so they can complete the purchase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FastSpring?

A more modern and flexible visualization and reporting interface to view sales would be good, but this is a nice to have only as the existing tools are ok. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FastSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

Elimination of the complexity involved with different, and complex, sales tax issues across worldwide sales. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FastSpring?

I like the pricing and security of FastSpring. They have been on the market for a long time. We've worked with them for 8 years now. And selling our apps and bundles has been very easy and secure with FastSpring's payment checkout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FastSpring?

We dislike the outdated features in the dashboard. There are a custom exports that we are interested in doing at the end of the month. But the dashboard which FastSpring has is a little bit outdated. Event hough they call it "new dashboard" – many export features that other competitors have, FastSpring doesn't have it.

Another thing we'd like to have FastSpring approved – Affiliates. They are using Impact Radius as their affiliate service provider. But we'd like to have it all in one system to avoid any confusion. We want FastSpring to just handle all of our affiliates, split pays, etc.. And they somehow do this, but it's going through another company (ImpactRadius) which doesn't seem necessary to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FastSpring:

If you are selling software — I genuinely believe FastSpring is the best choice that hasn't gone too corporate and keeps itself up to date with the latest trends. Including the UI/UX of the user dashboard itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FastSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

We sell software for Mac and Windows. And FastSpring handles our store where we sell licenses.

They provide Pop-up checkout and general checkout. This includes handling all taxes and credit card fees.

We really like that it's a secure checkout. And all of our customers are very happy with the smooth transaction procedure that FastSpring provides. Even though we did customize the checkout to look as if it's part of our website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FastSpring?

I love the strength of this e-commerce tool; since we started using it, it has never given us problems; on the contrary, it has been a solution to many. It allows us to enjoy fantastic ease to sell online our electronic products; the processing of the sale is more comfortable for everyone. FastSpring is very easy to use, and their team provides excellent advice; everything is right with FastSpring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FastSpring?

So far, I have not found the first thing I don't like about this tool, it has made everything more manageable, and I am happy with its performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FastSpring:

It is an exceptional e-commerce tool in every way; it is incredible how it can simplify the entire e-commerce and licensing sales process. Functionally it is superb and has an excellent support team; highly recommended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FastSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

Since we implemented it, it has helped us simplify the promotion, ordering, and delivery of our electronic products; moreover, it has made it easier and more convenient to process payments electronically to customers; FastSpring makes life easier for all of us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FastSpring?

What I like the most is the simplicity of the tool and the rich features the platform offers and the support team is quick to answer all your queries to ensure a hassle-free experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FastSpring?

What I dislike is the fewer methods of payment available for a storefront in a specific region for a user and I think if they could include more payments options so that a user has multiple ways to pay. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FastSpring:

If you're looking for e-commerce and b2b subscription billing, just go for it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FastSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

The major benefit that I have realized is streamlining the entire storefront as the product is highly user-intuitive and makes the entire e-commerce playful and yeah I feel this has given us tremendous results as we have grown manifold. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.