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How is this news? Is it 2004? I meet industry sales people who are baffled why some companies insist on Stripe despite the cost. HackerNews promotion is clearly a powerful force.
How is this news? Is it 2004? I meet industry sales people who are baffled why some companies insist on Stripe despite the cost. HackerNews promotion is clearly a powerful force.
Easy. Because they focus on developers. "Hacker News promotion" (a community of developers) is a side effect of that, not the other way around.
How is this news? Is it 2004? I meet industry sales people who are baffled why some companies insist on Stripe despite the cost. HackerNews promotion is clearly a powerful force.
in case of doubt i would act them same
How is this news? Is it 2004? I meet industry sales people who are baffled why some companies insist on Stripe despite the cost. HackerNews promotion is clearly a powerful force.
Easy. Because they focus on developers. "Hacker News promotion" (a community of developers) is a side effect of that, not the other way around.
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Easy. Because they focus on developers. "Hacker News promotion" (a community of developers) is a side effect of that, not the other way around.
But.. Payments is more than about developers. It's the finance people that reconcile, the budget that pays for it's transaction fees, the customer support when a transaction goes wrong. My point is ease-of-integration is just one part and for large companies, an insignificant part. Sometimes this feels lost and it's all "wahey, JSON API".
i once spend several hours in a cusomer care help center of my payment provider to figure out why and how they broke our checkout. this was in the middle of the night obviously because of timezones and the people on the other end where non-technical.
not saying this couldnt happen w/ stripe or that my payment provider was the best alternative (it was before stripe existed and was a european provider) but still…
i agree w/ you that payment providers are more than JSON API but from my perception stripe does a good job in those areas as well
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Easy. Because they focus on developers. "Hacker News promotion" (a community of developers) is a side effect of that, not the other way around.
But.. Payments is more than about developers. It's the finance people that reconcile, the budget that pays for it's transaction fees, the customer support when a transaction goes wrong. My point is ease-of-integration is just one part and for large companies, an insignificant part. Sometimes this feels lost and it's all "wahey, JSON API".
Now, I'm a loyal customer and recommend them to everyone. Sure, they cost more, but it's worth it.
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But.. Payments is more than about developers. It's the finance people that reconcile, the budget that pays for it's transaction fees, the customer support when a transaction goes wrong. My point is ease-of-integration is just one part and for large companies, an insignificant part. Sometimes this feels lost and it's all "wahey, JSON API".
You've never integrated an old-school payments API have you? Integration is not insignificant. Having spent developer/weeks wrangling XML (I'm looking at you authorize.net), being able to do the same in an afternoon is life changing. Now, I'm a loyal customer and recommend them to everyone. Sure, they cost more, but it's worth it.
How is this news? Is it 2004? I meet industry sales people who are baffled why some companies insist on Stripe despite the cost. HackerNews promotion is clearly a powerful force.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You've never integrated an old-school payments API have you? Integration is not insignificant. Having spent developer/weeks wrangling XML (I'm looking at you authorize.net), being able to do the same in an afternoon is life changing. Now, I'm a loyal customer and recommend them to everyone. Sure, they cost more, but it's worth it.
Yeap, done a ton of them. Alot get it right, some wrong. Many of them have caught up. The biggest problems you can run into are usually support orientated which I rarely see anything about here.
How is this news? Is it 2004? I meet industry sales people who are baffled why some companies insist on Stripe despite the cost. HackerNews promotion is clearly a powerful force.
I wish something like Stripe existed in 2004. If it had, we wouldn't have had to start the company...