Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16280553
EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen
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Re: EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen
#72Here's what puzzles me. I have looked into Stripe, and just browsed the Adyen webpage. Both of those services seem to require you to maintain your own "active" server that can run server side code. PayPal seems to be unique in being able to take payments from a passive web page, because the customer conducts their transaction at PP's website. This is why I continue to use PP for my tiny little business (without eBay)…
How's visa checkout? War under the impression that it was a direct PayPal competitor.
No, Visa Checkout is a confusingly named product that only serves to send credit card data to a merchant’s servers. The card data isn’t even kept safe by a intermediate token; the merchant has to run a PCI compliant solution.
That’s very different from PayPal’s offering.
Re: EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen
#73Na na na na
Na na na na
Hey hey hey
Goodbye
Re: EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen
#74Stripe/Braintree are a lot better than PayPal. PayPal will never take your processing history into consideration if their algorithms decide that your account is connected to some account with past violations. This happened when my developer used his API keys on our production resulting in our account with 1M+ revenue/2 years (very few chargebacks if any) of operation banned. As a small startup, it was a death sentence for our business, finding another processor at high volume is difficult when you've no history to show!
Re: EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen
#75Here's what puzzles me. I have looked into Stripe, and just browsed the Adyen webpage. Both of those services seem to require you to maintain your own "active" server that can run server side code. PayPal seems to be unique in being able to take payments from a passive web page, because the customer conducts their transaction at PP's website. This is why I continue to use PP for my tiny little business (without eBay)…
Does Stripe Checkout not fit the bill? https://stripe.com/checkout
Stripe Checkout still requires server side code for the Stripe checkout form to submit to.
Re: EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen
#76Stripe/Braintree are a lot better than PayPal. PayPal will never take your processing history into consideration if their algorithms decide that your account is connected to some account with past violations. This happened when my developer used his API keys on our production resulting in our account with 1M+ revenue/2 years (very few chargebacks if any) of operation banned. As a small startup, it was a death sentenc…
Braintree is owned by PayPal
Re: EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remembered that eBay spun off PayPal, but I thought PayPal still owned x.com. But after checking, it looks like Elon Musk held onto that domain before selling his steak in PayPal.
Paypal steak does not sound like it would taste good
Luckily, there's a cryptocurrency for that: https://steaktoken.com/
Re: EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen
#78Here's what puzzles me. I have looked into Stripe, and just browsed the Adyen webpage. Both of those services seem to require you to maintain your own "active" server that can run server side code. PayPal seems to be unique in being able to take payments from a passive web page, because the customer conducts their transaction at PP's website. This is why I continue to use PP for my tiny little business (without eBay)…
The reason for processing on your own server is so you own the entire checkout experience. If you redirect he user to another site for payment, you run the risk of losing track of that user. Also, the third-party’s branding may clash with your own.
The third party branding can also be positive depending on your own brand trust.
Made numerous payments to shoddy businesses in SE asia the last month, but since most offer PayPal as payment provider I feel confident entering my CC number.
Re: EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen
#79(Autoplay video) I wonder when eBay will change their rules that currently state that you must offer Paypal and cannot mention other payment options (including cash ) in a listing.
I quit eBay (and failed to get back to a comparable experience, unfortunately) the day (years ago) that they stopped allowing people to sell and specify payment options that didn't have the extra Paypal fee. Forcing everyone to use Paypal and pay the fee was obviously corrupt.
Re: EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure I follow - you mentioned not handling browser compatibility which implies you're not directly writing the html/css for the site. If you're using shopify or hosted wordpress or something, I would think most of those providers would handle the Stripe integration for you? You also mention a passive web page, if you're talking about a static site (as in a jekyll or hugo site hosted on S3), you may be right. I do…
I'm using Google Sites. Previously, I wrote plain HTML, but just the most basic sort, that most browsers will typically format into something readable, even if not beautiful. You're right, I mean a static site -- one that cannot run a server side script. At its most basic level, you can pay me by going to PayPal and telling them to send money to my account. PP takes your credit card info. I get an e-mail, and my PP a…
> If I try to screw around with you in any way, PayPal will happily reverse the transaction.
And they will also happily reverse the transaction if you don't.