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Re: Stripe in Japan

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Post by eps »

jwr wrote: post #27
kyriakos wrote: post #2

When is the rest of EU coming up? Same regulations everywhere I can't understand the hold up.

Braintree doesn't ignore the EU like Stripe. Use Braintree.

You misspelled Paymill, which is in fact an exact and shameless clone of Stripe.

Braintree is similar, but it evolved from an pre-Stripe type of an older convoluted platform. They still had tiered pricing just a couple of years ago. It is also owned by PayPal, so that alone can be a factor for some people to sidestep it.

Re: Stripe in Japan

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Post by kyriakos »

troels wrote: post #21
kyriakos wrote: post #2

When is the rest of EU coming up? Same regulations everywhere I can't understand the hold up.

There's not though. Each EU member state is a sovereign country and they each have their own laws regarding things like trans border payments. There's not even a single currency.

I am not an expert on this topic but... The central banks of eurozone countries are governed directly by the European central bank. They are not controlled by each member state's government. Eurozone also means they all use a single currency and are all members of the single European market. There are no different laws for cross border payments.

So I guess there must be another reason we don't know about.

Re: Stripe in Japan

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Post by kizum »

vuyani wrote: post #28
_urga wrote: post #25

Well done on the Japan launch. Any plans to add South Africa soon? It would be great to have Stripe on African soil.

YES PLEASE! ive beeeen waiting for stripe to come to South Africa, alot of other developers i know too are terribly frustrated of the unstable payment gateways we have down here. Stripe would be a much needed breath of fresh air.

I'm in the process of evaluating payment gateways for a Saas app that's currently using Stripe in the US, but needs to move to South Africa in the next few months. The closest I've come to something similar to Stripe is 2Checkout, but the lack proper of support for subscriptions (trial periods, product id's) is very dissapointing.

Re: Stripe in Japan

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Post by the-dude »

Symbiote wrote: post #22
rememberlenny wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Might be an off thought, but maybe a disproportionate fraud comes from the area

The wealthier EU countries are active or in beta. They're all cheaper than the US (1.4% rather than 2.9% fees), fraud is lower in the EU.

They were forced by the EU, they capped the fees

Re: Stripe in Japan

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Post by danielvf »

redcap wrote: post #29
simonk wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ANA is the largest airline in Japan though.

I've always thought of it as playing second fiddle to JAL. That's changed after JAL had to go through a lot of restructuring, but it's mostly been these two companies. There could be some numbers out there stating that ANA is the largest, but I'd guess there wouldn't be much of a margin.

2015 revenue from air transportation:

    ANA - 1,484,600 million yen
    JAL - 1,205,200 million yen
That's pretty clear lead, and it's increasing year by year.

[1] https://www.ana.co.jp/group/investors/irdata/annual/pdf/16f/...

[2] https://www.jal.com/en/investor/library/finance/pdf/fy2015q4...

Re: Stripe in Japan

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Post by fenomas »

jfim wrote: post #11

Isn't Japan mostly cash-based? Seems like an interesting location to expand to.

Japan is mostly cash-based for face-to-face transactions.

Online, users are extremely comfortable paying electronically. You have to remember that paying via mobile was a thing here several years before the rest of the world, so people have had longer to acclimatize.

As a reference point, Japan spent around $8B via mobile phones in 2006 (i.e. before the iphone launched).

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