For Indian SaaS specifically, the billing decision is the one that has the largest downstream effect. Razorpay handles domestic customers and UPI cleanly; Stripe is better if a meaningful share of revenue is international. Many products end up running both, and the mistake I see most often is building the subscription logic tightly around whichever provider was integrated first, so adding the second means rewriting the billing layer rather than adding an adapter.
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Read the full breakdownRazorpay for domestic customers — it handles UPI, netbanking and Indian card rails properly. Stripe if a meaningful share of your revenue is international. Design your subscription state machine so it does not care which provider sent the webhook, and you can add the second later without a rewrite.
In the product, yes — GST-compliant invoice generation and the fields Indian customers expect are part of a normal build. For your own company's tax filing you want an accountant, not a developer.
For a focused MVP with auth, billing, a core workflow and an admin panel, plan on 8 to 12 weeks. The range depends far more on how well-defined the scope is than on the technology. Projects that slip are almost always projects where the feature list kept growing.
Yes — at least the data model. Adding a tenant boundary to an existing schema and query layer later is one of the most painful migrations in software. The rest, like per-tenant theming and custom domains, can safely wait.
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