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Stripe: Relay
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#22tomasien: For some reason your comment is being marked as a [dupe], even though it's the only one of yours in this thread. There's another deleted thread[1]. What's going on here? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10216136
I started a thread on this the same time this thread started. When I saw this one rising to the top I deleted it - I thought duplicate submissions were supposed to get merged in automatically and counted as upvotes instead of separate threads but I guess that didn't happen. I copied my comment from there to here.
Generally they do, but its a very simple match by URL, so yours might have a tracking query param or something that you didn't strip (or it might have been a link to the blog post)
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#23We've been looking at a few other players to do exactly this, i.e. TwoTaps (https://twotap.com/) and Cosmic Cart (https://cosmiccart.com/). The big problem we've seen is:
1) Having pricing and inventory data keep up to date.
2) Reliability and speed, TwoTaps has robots that fill in an order on retailers sites and checkout is slow as a result. Aside from the ugliness of it, I'm sure a lot of retailers don't like this process or necessarily are approving it.
3) Lack of wide number of retailers. Cosmic Cart does direct integration but the the numbers of partners they have right now is severely limited, Target being the big one.
Getting these direct partnerships integrations is hard, but to make this really compelling you really want a wide range of retailers. It will be interesting to see if Stripe, with the relationships it already has, will be able to do a better job of this and getting retailers to buy into losing the control of the full shopping experience.
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#24We've been looking at a few other players to do exactly this, i.e. TwoTaps ( https://twotap.com/ ) and Cosmic Cart ( https://cosmiccart.com/ ). The big problem we've seen is: 1) Having pricing and inventory data keep up to date. 2) Reliability and speed, TwoTaps has robots that fill in an order on retailers sites and checkout is slow as a result. Aside from the ugliness of it, I'm sure a lot of retailers don't like t…
Agree that the challenge is in obtaining partnerships, but not every retailer needs full control of the shopping experience, especially on mobile. And that's the win - alleviating the need for every retailer to solve the same technical problem.
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#25This is pretty cool (I'm working on an ecommerce app now). What I'm not clear on is this:
Can apps selling relay products get a cut of the sale?
What incentive is there for a "product discovery app" (or whatever) to sell other products? Can they define some sort of fee %?
UPDATE: Chatted with Stripe on IRC and they clarified that there's currently no way to share sales revenue or let apps define a % commission.
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#26What's the difference between Relay and the Enterprise version of Shopify?
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#27We've been looking at a few other players to do exactly this, i.e. TwoTaps ( https://twotap.com/ ) and Cosmic Cart ( https://cosmiccart.com/ ). The big problem we've seen is: 1) Having pricing and inventory data keep up to date. 2) Reliability and speed, TwoTaps has robots that fill in an order on retailers sites and checkout is slow as a result. Aside from the ugliness of it, I'm sure a lot of retailers don't like t…
Founder of Two Tap here. It takes an average of three minutes to send the order to the retailer via our platform. On the frontend we use a similar model to Amazon where tell the shopper we're confirming her purchase and handle the process in the background. It's working great for Amazon, and it works great for us for a thousand merchants.
Retailers are incredibly happy by the fact that they don't have to do a complicated integration where they have to maintain a new piece of infrastructure for potentially getting less than 1% of their orders.
That being said, we're huge fans of Stripe. Always have been. John Collison was our mentor during YC. We're looking forward to seeing how they handle the challenges in the space.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I started a thread on this the same time this thread started. When I saw this one rising to the top I deleted it - I thought duplicate submissions were supposed to get merged in automatically and counted as upvotes instead of separate threads but I guess that didn't happen. I copied my comment from there to here.
Generally they do, but its a very simple match by URL, so yours might have a tracking query param or something that you didn't strip (or it might have been a link to the blog post)
I checked, it was an exact match. It was weird - thanks for helping!
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#30Blog post: https://stripe.com/blog/relay This is interesting. How does this work with Apple not allowing purchases unless they go through them? Edit: deleted the part where I confused square for stripe. My bad =/
Physical product sales are fine. Obviously.