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Ready-made Stripe Checkout for freelancers

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Re: Ready-made Stripe Checkout for freelancers

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Would you rather pay for an unfinished product? They see value in allowing you to benefit from any utility while giving them testing data and a canvass of the market while they fill out the product. Charging now would cause a sense of entitlement in users that they probably aren't ready to handle yet

Yes, If it's good enough to be released, I'd be happy to pay for an unfinished product - if for no other reason than it would make it more sustainable long term. Or, I'll wait until they figure out what the heck their long term pricing will be before doing the work to change a critical part of the business to run on them. This "free to use" mindset is incredibly short-sited - especially when it comes to checkout infr…

joelrunyon I really appreciate your comment, and just to clarify it again: Actually, Wirize is in beta, so in order to define a pricing model, we're still trying to understand the market, customer needs, and of course the product value. In my opinion, as a start-up, our first mission is to understand the customer and then find a business model. We can't just assume that a freelancer is willing to pay a fee per transaction (in addition to the standard Stripe fees), or a subscription-based service. We will try to clarify this part as soon as possible, and if you're up to help us in this regard, we would love to hear your thoughts, payment needs, and of course any suggestions you may have. If you want, this is my email: davide@wirize.com Thank you again!

Re: Ready-made Stripe Checkout for freelancers

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If you're doing this is implies you're pulling money into your Stripe account and paying out to your customer's bank accounts? Unfortunately this makes you merchant of record, so if I'm not happy with a charge made to one of the merchants on your platform I'll raise a chargeback against you. Good luck getting the money back from the merchants :-/

Your assumption is totally incorrect sudhirj. Wirize uses direct charges trough Stripe Connect, so we never touch/hold customers money. If you want, check it out: https://goo.gl/vpvBEQ

Ah, okay. The previous thread seemed to imply that this was available in countries where Stripe wasn't. I see now that you mean that the Stripe Billings feature was US only.
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