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- Subscription statuses: Stripe vs Paddle vs Chargebee — 8 vs 5 vs 7 statuses — and Chargebee has no past-due status at all.
- Ticket statuses: Zendesk vs Freshdesk vs Help Scout — 6 vs 4 vs 3 statuses, and who is allowed to close a ticket.
- Invoice statuses: Stripe vs Xero vs QuickBooks — When an invoice becomes permanent, and when it can only be voided.
- Issue statuses: GitHub vs Jira vs Linear — How each records work that was dropped rather than done.
- Order statuses: Shopify vs WooCommerce vs BigCommerce — One status, two statuses, or fifteen numbered ones.
- Booking statuses: Calendly vs Cal.com vs Square — Who cancelled, and did the client show up — stored three ways.
- Dispute statuses: Stripe vs PayPal vs Square — Inquiries vs chargebacks, and why ignoring one costs you.
- E-signature statuses: DocuSign vs PandaDoc vs Dropbox Sign — 11 vs 14 statuses vs none at all — and DocuSign's misleading 'delivered'.
- Task statuses: Asana vs Trello vs ClickUp — Two of the three have no status field at all.
- Deal stages: HubSpot vs Pipedrive vs Salesforce — How each CRM knows a deal is won.
- The status that gets you paid — Invoice Ninja, TutorCruncher and Fresha each tie revenue to one status change.
- We counted every route in 5 open-source SaaS starters — 69 routes across 53,876 stars: 5/5 ship auth, 0/5 ship your product.
- SaaS idea validation guide 2026 — Frameworks for testing demand, competitors and pricing before you build.
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