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Can't wait for Stripe to be available in more countries without having to have a US bank account to set it up.
You only need a US bank account to open a US Stripe account, other countries don't require a US bank account
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'm one of Stripe's cofounders. It's about the functionality, not the promotion. The whole premise of Stripe is that a richer, more powerful stack of APIs -- rather than the bare-bones electrical outlet to the credit card networks that existed before -- is a better solution for most businesses. Whatever success (and any recognition) we've had to date follows from that; not the other way around. I wish something like…
I've had to ask them to call up their bank/card provider and request for the restriction to be removed.
Is Stripe's ease of onboarding/getting started causing such a high rate of flagged transactions? What's going on behind the scenes between banks and payment services providers and is this something that could be improved in the future?
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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.
I have integrated with CyberSource and PayPal. CyberSource took a week. PayPal took a couple days. Braintree and Stripe? A few hours!
Besides this, their reporting (via API) is simple to use and integrate with our analytics pipeline. By contrast my analytics team spent days on the phone with both CyberSource and PayPal.
Finally, the rates aren't that bad. If you have significant transaction volume, you can negotiate a rate comparable to the "legacy" payment processors. Both the sales and support teams have been quite helpful.
Just curious: Is it on Stripe's roadmap to provide an inline version of Checkout, IE an option to get a form in an iframe, instead of the modal?
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I'm one of Stripe's cofounders. It's about the functionality, not the promotion. The whole premise of Stripe is that a richer, more powerful stack of APIs -- rather than the bare-bones electrical outlet to the credit card networks that existed before -- is a better solution for most businesses. Whatever success (and any recognition) we've had to date follows from that; not the other way around. I wish something like…
Uh, frankly, all you are offering is yet another credit card gateway. There are large countries out there where credit card usage is much much lower compared to debit cards. So it's cool you're translating stuff, but none of it matters if customers can't pay. It's 2015, you need PayPal level of compatibility.
Just curious: Is it on Stripe's roadmap to provide an inline version of Checkout, IE an option to get a form in an iframe, instead of the modal?
Just curious: Is it on Stripe's roadmap to provide an inline version of Checkout, IE an option to get a form in an iframe, instead of the modal?
What would be the benefit of that?
Edit: also I was doing some digging on the subject, and there is an opinion (not condoned by Stripe) that Checkout is "more PCI-compliant" than Stripe.js because the iframe is sourced to Stripe, and Stripe is PCI-audited. Therefore having an inline option for Checkout might please folks wanting the inline UX without giving up the potential upside of Checkout with regard to PCI-compliance.
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You only need a US bank account to open a US Stripe account, other countries don't require a US bank account
You need a US bank account to receive transfers in USD. It will be great when Stripe allows non-US companies to receive USD without requiring conversion to another currency.
Just curious: Is it on Stripe's roadmap to provide an inline version of Checkout, IE an option to get a form in an iframe, instead of the modal?
Colin Percival has got you covered: http://paymentiframe.com/
(Is my memory wrong that Colin's tool predates the launch of Checkout? Perhaps even Colin's tool inspired Checkout to a small extent?)
Unfortunately, I found a few issues: http://imgur.com/vZbheUP
1) The Zip-Code lookup is GREAT, except it looks up the town name, not the 都道府県 (prefecture) like it should.
2) The prefecture is in english, not Japanese
3) The Country names are also in english, not Japanese
4) Was hoping to see auto-kana support for Japanese names: https://github.com/harisenbon/autokana ;)
Overall, looks amazing, and awesome that you're getting ready for a full launch in Japan.
* Running in IE11 on Windows 7 (Japanese)