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Billing platform cron alternatives
What billing teams pick when they need recurring tasks against Stripe, Paddle, LemonSqueezy and friends.
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Billing & payments
Billing platforms don't really ship a general-purpose scheduler. Stripe has Sigma, which can run scheduled SQL queries on Stripe's own data warehouse (paid feature). Paddle has webhooks for billing events but no time triggers. LemonSqueezy is similar. The recurring work that has to happen on a clock (daily revenue snapshots, weekly digest emails, monthly invoice sweeps, dunning retries that don't fit the platform's auto-retry schedule) usually lives in a worker or a serverless function fired on schedule.
We don't have a billing-focused competitor comparison published yet. The blog and use-cases categories cover the billing patterns explicitly (Stripe daily invoice sweep, Paddle digest emails, LemonSqueezy revenue snapshots) and are the place to start. Crontap fits this work by hitting an HTTP endpoint that runs the billing query (a /scheduled/revenue route on your service, a Vercel/Lambda function, a Stripe webhook handler reused for time-based work) on a per-IANA timezone with retries and failure alerts.
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- Does Stripe have a scheduler?
- Stripe Sigma can run scheduled SQL queries on Stripe's data warehouse, billed separately. For most teams it's cheaper and more flexible to fire a /scheduled/stripe-report endpoint on your own service via an external scheduler and let your code call the Stripe API. Sigma is the right pick when you specifically want the SQL-on-Stripe-data ergonomics.
- Can Crontap drive a Stripe webhook handler on schedule?
- Yes. Stripe-signed webhooks expect a Stripe-Signature header, so a single handler can't accept both Stripe-signed events and an unauthenticated cron call. The standard pattern is to expose a parallel /scheduled/stripe route protected by a bearer token from Crontap, and have it call into the same business logic the webhook handler uses.
- What about dunning?
- Stripe's Smart Retries cover most automated dunning, but the cadence and content are fixed. For custom dunning (retry every 12 hours for 3 days, then escalate to a custom email), an external scheduler firing your dunning route is the common pattern. The schedule lives in Crontap, the dunning logic stays in your code.
- Does Crontap process payments?
- No. Crontap fires HTTP endpoints. The endpoint is yours and can call Stripe, Paddle or LemonSqueezy from there. Crontap is the clock; the billing logic, the keys and the customer data stay on your side.
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