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Stripe is one of the world’s most trusted billing and payment platforms. Its payment processing, invoicing, fraud protection, and security features make it the go-to choice for SaaS businesses, startups, and API providers alike. But Stripe has limitations when it comes to mixed billing periods…

Paddle has become one of the most popular payment service providers in Europe and across the globe. Its key advantage lies in acting as a merchant of record: Paddle takes care of VAT, sales tax, compliance, fraud, and payment operations in over 200 markets. This…

99.9% of businesses in the U.S. are small businesses. Since the late 1990s, they have accounted for between 43.5% and 50.7% of the United States’ gross domestic output (GDP)—trillions of dollars of economic activity. [1] In Europe, SMEs make up 99% of all businesses and…

API providers often list their products in a public catalog so that anyone can subscribe. But sometimes, partners need something special — unique pricing, higher limits, or exclusive features. Nadles makes it easy to create custom products and onboard partners without exposing these offers to…

Nadles provides built-in tools to protect your API from unwanted traffic and fraudulent signups. From the My Settings section, you can block requests based on IP addresses or e-mail addresses. Changes take effect immediately after saving. 192.168.1.15 10.0.0.0/8 # Block known malicious IP from last…

When you offer pay as you go pricing as an API provider, your potential customers are often concerned about the danger of accidentally using much more resources than planned and huge invoices as a result of that. This can happen due to a bug in…

TL;DR: Nadles has recently released its new billing engine. It’s the most advanced API monetization engine at the moment. The flexibility of pricing strategies configurable on Nadles is unparalleled. It can do what Stripe and Paddle can’t. You should try it. The world of pricing strategies…

We’ve enhanced the subscription dashboard in the Nadles API consumer portal with a new "Next Payment" section, now available for subscriptions using Paddle or Stripe integration. This section gives customers a clear preview of their upcoming payment, including: 💳 Recurring amount – The fixed subscription…

Since its first public release in November 2022 and until September 2024 Nadles API Gateway was residing in a single data center in Germany. Even though it was a highly available redundant deployment, geographically it was limited to European region. In order to ensure smooth…

Nadles is constantly improving user experience based on customer feedback. This post is about new features on the Nadles’ API consumer portal. Sometimes your customers need to create several subscriptions to your API (e.g., for different departments inside the company) and label them with different…

When a new subscription is created, Nadles makes an exclusive copy of the respective API product for it, so that changes in the main product do not affect the subscription. Before the introduction of test access keys, in order to test changes in the main…

TL;DR: API providers on Nadles can now enjoy the beta version of analytics and run free-form SQL queries on HTTP request logs and usage records. Scroll down for examples. Having a versatile analytics solution is absolutely crucial for API providers in many cases: But how…

After 1.5 years of operation Project X has been rebranded as Nadles. Read more about the rebranding: https://www.nadles.com/project-x-is-now-nadles.html

Httpstatus.io, an outstanding API for retrieving detailed information about URLs, has got out of beta! It measures latency, parses each URL in the redirect chain into components, authenticates requests with Basic auth, validates SSL certificates, follows redirects, and returns detailed information about each hop. Truly…

This is the third post in the series about Project X updates in Q3 and Q4 2023. Before, Project X API Gateway would automatically assign a domain name to your API, which looked like https://myfirstapi.c1-eu-nmbg-hz.projectx.biz After the new update, in under 15 minutes you can attach your…