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# FastSpring User Reviews

## Reviews summary

- Overall rating: 4.2/5
- Total reviews: 37

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 3.7/5
- Customer support: 4.1/5
- Value for money: 4.0/5
- Functionality: 3.9/5

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 26 reviews (70%)
- 4 stars: 4 reviews (11%)
- 3 stars: 1 reviews (3%)
- 2 stars: 1 reviews (3%)
- 1 star: 5 reviews (14%)

### Most mentioned cons

- it was mediocre at best when things were working, they are currently costing me sales since they have turned off our account while they re-verify us.

## FastSpring customer reviews

Showing reviews 1-25 of 37 (page 1).

### Best platform for digital products

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Trinayan C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

FastSpring rules if you use it for digital products. Be it small one time purchases or recurring payments, it is super easy to use and intuitive. The fees are reasonable too.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

The features it offer for digital products and the multiple payment processing options are top-class in this segment.

#### Cons

Nothing much to dislike about this. I would still like better integration with physical products. Currently I use it only for digital products.

#### Vendor response

Hi Trinayan, thank you for your great feedback. We're thrilled you're part of our FastSpring community, and we look forward to continuing to be your growth partner!

Replied December 2019

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### I'll be a customer for many years to come.

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Elle D.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Design
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2024
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

All the proiducts are great. I also had a small billing issue but Fastspring were extremely helpful and speedy with their response and fix.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I have bought several products via FastSpring now and have been happy every time.

#### Cons

I don't have any issues with FastSpring.

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### Reliable online payment processing solution

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Igor N.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: May 2019
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

TestDome has been using FastSpring for online payment processing for our worldwide customers, including VAT and tax processing, for more than 4 years, and we've been very satisfied with the service and support.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

FastSpring provides online payment processing solution for our worldwide customers, including VAT and tax processing.

#### Cons

Creating custom orders and invoices could be more user-friendly.

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### Great eCommerce and Subscription management platform

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2021
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

We have been using FastSpring for over 6 years now and the first thing that comes to mind is that it is a solid product, that we never have issues with. It just works. I can't say it is complicated in the initial setup. All the necessary testing options are available and they are easy to use. Overall great product with many options to set up your store and integrate with other platforms.

#### Cons

I don't have much to say here, except that maybe there is a bit of a learning curve to it if you have no background in setting up subscription-type billing.

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### FastSpring as a commerce solution

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Craig H.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I have been making use of FastSpring for two years now. I will soon launch my second product through them as well. I actually did have another product that I sold through them, however, the product did not meet with their compliance team and I had to remove the second product. This is actually where they impressed me the most... Rather than simply banning my product, which would have killed my site instantly, they told me through their support channel that the product does comply with their acceptable use policies and gave me a week to move it to another commerce provider. At the time I decided to get a merchant account so I can not get into the same situation with another provider and asked for an extension. They were very understanding and extremely helpful in the matter. Their support staff is top notch. It took me more than a month to move to my own merchant account and I was able to do this transparently to my site visitors. They pay out on time (sometimes they actually pay a day or 2 ahead of time), provide extensive reports and to date I have not had a single issue with them. I have been selling online for more than 15 years and to date this is the the best eCommerce platform I have ever used, not to mention trustworthy. If they approve your product, you can be assured that you will have a partner that is trusted by buyers and once integrated with your site, you never have to worry about them as they just work. Highly recommended.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The fulfillment aspect of FastSpring is very good, making it virtually impossible for visitors to your site to get your product without first paying.

#### Cons

Integrating with your site is a bit involved and you will need some technical knowledge to seamlessly integrate it with your site.

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### A pleasant experience using the service

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Mariia V.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: August 2024
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

I used the FastSpring service for 1.5 years. During the integration of the service into our product, I want to highlight the high level of support and onboarding from the FastSpring team. There were technical calls, requirements approvals, etc. We were given a demo of the service and its capabilities. The experience of using the product in our work has been exceptionally positive. Thank you to the developers for such an amazing service!

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Excellent and easy-to-understand reports in the service. It's especially convenient to work with the Sales report and receive information about subscription payments. Additionally, statistics on failed payments and chargebacks are displayed conveniently.

#### Cons

I didn't find any drawbacks. The service is easy and convenient to use in work.

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### Good payment option with rich options

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2018
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

They helped us with simple payment option for our subscription based service, with price adjustable by us.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Rich features They handle taxes well all around the world

#### Cons

Poor support Buggy implementation of new JavaScript based storefront

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### Flexible and very easy to setup

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

I love the abiity to accept check payments. They also make it very easy to adjust products, prices, coupons, etc.

#### Cons

It is difficult to find a list of all current clients and transactions. They also could use an update with their reporting.

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### Efficient, easy to setup, flexible, excellent support

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

No problems come from FastSpring, it's the main interest, each time I want to make something with FS, it's easy and fast to implement. A question ? The support answers efficiently.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

-plents of features -flexible -support

#### Cons

-nothing

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### Good for creative product dedicated pages

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Translation and Localization
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: September 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

Very modern tool to support ecommerce and lead gen

#### Cons

can get confusing at times especially when integrating with other websites

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### Overall very positive. Site is a little clunky. Searching for previous transactions is hit or miss.

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Paul N.
- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

It works very well and Fastspring deals with a lot of stuff that I don't want to.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

It is stable. Reporting features are good. Lots of functionality. I've never had any problems with errors, etc. It just works.

#### Cons

Admin interface is not intuitive. I sometimes have to hunt around or use trial and error to get something to work. Setting up coupons is awkward. I would say that the admin site was designed by programmers and not end-users. Needs some work on the usability side.

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### Abonnement Falle

- Overall rating: 1/5
- Reviewer: nobert e.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Chemicals
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: June 2024
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Meine Erfahrung ist das gekaufte Artikel keinen Vorteil bezgl. Umsatz bringen

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 1/5
- Value for money: 1/5
- Customer support: 1/5
- Functionality: 1/5

#### Pros

Die Tutorials sind soweit ok wenn auch mit viel Text und wenig Inhalt

#### Cons

Man bestellt einen Artikel und bekommt einen, zunächst, kostenlosen Artikel dazu. Diesen Kostenlosen Artikel muss man aber kündigen sonst ist er nach 14 Tagen kostenpflichtig

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### Save yourself the headache and use someone else.

- Overall rating: 1/5
- Reviewer: Jacob R.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

it was mediocre at best when things were working, they are currently costing me sales since they have turned off our account while they re-verify us. Its been almost 2 weeks while they get around to it I guess. Absolutely terrible.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 1/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 1/5
- Functionality: 2/5

#### Pros

Relatively low fees, there really wasnt much else to like. The onboarding process was slow, support is non-existent.

#### Cons

Their tools are primitive, documentation is rarely up to date, implementation takes in depth coding, worst of all, is 2 1/2 years in, fastspring just turns off the account one day because they need to verify our account even though they verified us when we started up. Zero warnings, zero requests for information, and now, over 10 days later and they still have not re-activated our account. Totally unacceptable, we have angry customers, new customers calling in confused why the site isnt working properly and we are just stuck while our "ticket" gets passed around IT purgatory. No support phone numbers, no one we can talk to, just a generic email you send your request to and hope. I expect better for all the money theyve taken from us.

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### Avoid FastSpring at all costs!

- Overall rating: 1/5
- Reviewer: Katie M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Marketing and Advertising
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: November 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Avoid FastSpring at all costs! This company has gone completely downhill — what was once a decent payment processor has turned into an absolute nightmare. Coming back to them was one of the worst business decisions we’ve made. Their so-called “support” is a joke — no phone number, no real people, just endless email silence or generic copy-paste nonsense when they finally bother to reply. After years of smooth operations with PayPal and Stripe and not a single dispute, FastSpring abruptly shut down our account without warning, explanation, or justification — just a vague message from their useless “risk” team that clearly has no clue what they’re doing. It’s beyond unprofessional; it’s infuriating. If you care about your business, your customers, or basic human communication, stay far away from this disaster of a company. Go with PayPal or Stripe — at least they treat you like a real person. FastSpring is nothing but an unresponsive, robotic mess with zero accountability. And no doubt they’ll respond to this review with their usual hollow apology to save face, but it’s far too late — the damage is done.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 1/5
- Value for money: 1/5
- Customer support: 1/5
- Functionality: 1/5

#### Pros

When we used this years ago it processed payments correctly without issue. However , now it does not process payments.

#### Cons

FastSpring.com was used years ago , but now they no longer process our payments and when we email them asking why they provide no reasoning.

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### Compliant ready without hassle

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Babatunde O.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Marketing and Advertising
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We switched from another checkout processor to fastspring a couple of years back and basically it solved all the challenges we had. Worth mentioning is the global tax manageement integration, fast srping eliminated the need for lots of paperworks for us.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

PCI-DSS compliance was paramount for our clients. Fastsrpring made it easy for our checkout pages to stay compliant without stress.

#### Cons

While I understand that the platform is fully focused on slving all finance related challenges. It does not support file hosting for digital items

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### FastSpring Has Provided Steady Support for my Small Business for More than Eight Years

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Alex W.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Publishing
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I sell books that I publish in paperback and ebook versions. For the ebook versions, I use FastSpring to handle sales through my own website. FastSpring has been a very reliable company for this purpose, handling payment processing and downloads. Their customer support operation is outstanding.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

FastSpring has been completely dependable in providing a way for me to sell ebooks through my website. Once each book is set up as a new product, I rarely have to take any further actions; I can attend to other aspects of my business, secure in the knowledge that FastSpring is taking care of all aspects of sales, including processing payments, taking care of sales taxes in many countries, and handling downloads of the books by the customers.

#### Cons

When I first started using FastSpring, I found it somewhat tricky to set up a new product. It took me a while to understand how to construct the template for the email message a customer receives after purchasing an ebook. However, FastSpring's support team helped me through that process, and now it is very easy to set up each new product, using a template that has been saved to my account, which provides multiple file downloads so the customer can download the book in three versions (PDF, ePub, and Kindle). The only other problem I sometimes encounter is when a customer contacts me to say they have not received an ebook they paid for. On several occasions, the problem was caused when the customer entered their email address incorrectly. I wish the FastSpring system would somehow verify that the email address is correct when entered.

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### Best of the the Bunch

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Allan S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Defense & Space
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

With FastSpring, I can provide purchasing environments for any country on the planet, and in any currency. Their rapid-response Support is a significant advantage over any other online monetary system. If you make the decision to utilize FastSpring, you will rejoice in that choice, both when you need help - and when you get paid for our sales!!

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

The learning curve on the FastSpring store environment is easy to master. On first exposure, the features and capabilities can seem to be a bit overwhelming to initially understand. But with careful reading of all of the Help topics you will soon have enough knowledge to begin designing your store structure. Anytime, you discover a feature or function that doesn't understandable, go to Support and submit your questions and intended results that you want to achieve. The folks will rapidly respond and do everything possible to provide information.

#### Cons

I would like to be able to sort products and offerings into more easily manageable groups. For example, being able to add sorting tags to a single product, and generate individual store fronts by simply defining the contents by the assigned tags.

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### Reliable payment solution with great choice of payment options for my customers

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Alexander K.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Photography
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I've been with FastSpring for about 3 years or so, and I've never had any issues, and neither had my customers. Great and responsive support team. Most recommended!

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

- Fast and responsive support team. - Wide choice of payment and currency options for my customers. - Very flexible with features covering almost all of my business needs.

#### Cons

- Can sometimes be a bit unfriendly in terms of the interface. Looks like the coders are in charge of usability. - Design of the user checkout and options to change it are a bit outdated and need to be modernized. - Could have integrations (or apps) with web and eCommerce platforms: Wix, Ecwid, etc. - A bit hard to setup more complex elements such as shopping cart, etc. Needs to offer some visual way to do it (without coding).

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### Poor user experience, terrible platform to navigate, way too expensive and awful refund management

- Overall rating: 1/5
- Reviewer: Justin A.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

none

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 1/5
- Value for money: 1/5
- Customer support: 1/5
- Functionality: 1/5

#### Pros

none that I can think of, we use a number of payment gateways/merchants etc. and FastSpring is never one we would choose, we inherited it from an acquisition.

#### Cons

Poor user experience, terrible platform to navigate, way too expensive and awful refund management, Reporting is terrible.

#### Vendor response

Hi Justin - We are sorry to hear about your experience. We reviewed your account and see you are transacting via our ¿classic¿ commerce solution. Our platform has evolved over the years and all new customers are on-boarded to our modern contextual commerce solution. This product has a very high customer satisfaction rate, improved user experience, navigation and reporting. We hope you consider migrating over to the newest version.

Replied July 2018

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### Software para ecommerce completo con múltiples funciones interesantes

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for free trial
- Reviewed: August 2023
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Todas las funcionales que integra, lo que lo convierte en una herramienta muy potente y a la que se le puede sacar mucho partido, ya que no sólo gestiona pagos, sino también facturación entre otras muchas funciones.

#### Cons

La facilidad de uso y poder llegar a dominar la aplicación. Se nos hizo pesado muy tedioso y el interfaz de uso es muy mejorable.

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### FastSpring has made collecting recurring payments so easy for our business!

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Shikhil S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer & Network Security
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: August 2017
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

- Recurring payments from all major countries - Easy-to-use payment software - Great support

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

I was introduced to FastSpring by an existing customer which I asked for suggestions for a payment gateway that could help us process recurring payments. The challenge was that our home country was India and other payment gateway providers like 2checkout had already rejected our application. But we got on-board with fastspring within a couple of weeks and it has been an amazing journey since then. We've processed thousands of dollars since then and experience has been very transparent.

#### Cons

A few hiccups would be: 1. The UI and easy-of-use can be worked upon. Sometimes it becomes difficult to find the right section/settings for a specific order 2. The back-end dashboard could have a few more features

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### Flexible, with great support!

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Marty M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2018
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

We needed a product purchasing platform that allowed us to use our own licensing system. FastSpring had just what we were looking for. The variety of options for selling as a single purchase as well as subscription based licensing was a big selling point as well.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I love how flexible the software is. It accommodates a variety of different strategies to sell a product. Integrated product license support is great and includes the ability to callback to your own system when purchases are made.

#### Cons

There are some non-intuitive ways to get at certain information about purchases or settings.

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### Convenience is king

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Mike S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Flawless operation for several years. Couldn't ask for better. Excellent customer support - they take ownership of your problem immediately and work to resolution.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The best feature of FastSpring is their handling of the transactions -- the payments, taxes, refunds are all handled for me. Acting as a reseller, my paperwork is greatly simplified: I sell to them, they sell to the world. Integration was easy, with excellent tools and debugging capabilities available.

#### Cons

Customization does require some technical smarts.

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### Good choice for app distribution

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: David M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: May 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I have only used FastSpring for distributing one app, but I have used other similar services in the past for other apps. I am very satisfied with FastSpring, and feel it is superior to those other services.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Using FastSpring it was easy to set up a sales solution for my Microsoft Windows app. The site allows extensive testing of your store listing prior to going live. The user interface is intuitive. I have had no problems with the mechanics of the service. User feedback is forwarded safely and securely, and it has been easy to handle user issues.

#### Cons

The only suggestion I have had is to provide a mechanism for free software updates for registered end users of my app. There are some mechanisms in play, but they are time-limited. Right now I maintain a mailing list and give out free update coupons to purchasers of my app. But it would be nice to make this a little easier via the site.

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### FastSpring is a great platform

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Jiraud W.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

As a five year user of FS, we only had one big glitch. In this particular case, our account was brutally debited as FS had a credit card invoicing problem. We had to recontact each customer to rebill and in this particular case, I felt that I was left alonetu unscramble this but otherwise we are satisfied.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

FS has supplied a great deal of work that we didn't have to program ourselves. It takes care of our renewals and fulfilments better that we could do ourselves.

#### Cons

None, the platforms are great (Springboard and Dashboard)

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