Ask HN: How are Indian folks managing recurring payments now?

  • India is losing track of dollars, and their added taxes, so they are creating hurdles in the payment process to make sure their tax component is collected and they get it. There are a host of countries doing the same thing = compiles PITA for sellers on all payments, so this adds costs to payment processors, some say fukkit and leave that market - some solve it with/without 'cheating' India.

    https://cleartax.in/s/rbi-reserve-bank-of-india

  • My recurring payment for ChatGPT (USD 20 + GST) is working fine with SBI credit card.

    Spotify and similar which have Indian presence work good of course (with SBI as well as ICICI cards).

    I do have a Jetbrains subscription, but I can't verify if the subscription still works, because I got a 3Y one during one of their promos and it's still active.

  • FWIW, I haven't had any failures in ~3-4 months now. Every subscription using Stripe has been working flawlessly for the same time. Even usenet subs have renewed fine this year (just had an automatic renewal processed yesterday).

    I use ICICI, Axis & HDFC Cards and all 3 have worked fine.