Our company (Airfox) is a happy Brex user. Thanks for the prompt customer support. Really solid product!
Thanks! Happy you guys like it :)
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#12I looked at the page: https://brex.com/legal/prohibited_activities/
I am curious about the language that you have used - in particular the use of word "marijuana".
What is the reason to use such derogatory, offensive and deeply racist term for cannabis?
I thought that in 2018 tech companies wouldn't be using language of the 70s that has been used to promote hatred towards the users of this plant.
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#13This was a great write up. Also I hope I get a chance to use and love the product. I'm a founder who lives outside the US and has a US company and bank account via Stripe Atlas. Just signed up and got to the "Information Requests" branch of the flow. Entered my passport, birthdate in fine. But when it came to "Enter the person's address", there were only options for US addresses. I'm living outside the US so I hesitated between using my company mailing address, and my last address in the USA, and went with the latter (but probably the former is a better idea). Also, regarding the interface, there was no "submit" button on the address view, which let me feel confused as when I had entered my business address, I couldn't find the button. When nothing happened, I thought, "maybe, the system is checking it, and it's invalid", so I entered my last US address instead, then hit "enter" and it worked. You can consider this some more user experience data :) Great writeup and thanks for making it available and for the offer of waiving the fees USD5/users/month fees if you do the first transaction before June 30.
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#14I looked at the page: https://brex.com/legal/prohibited_activities/ I am curious about the language that you have used - in particular the use of word "marijuana". What is the reason to use such derogatory, offensive and deeply racist term for cannabis? I thought that in 2018 tech companies wouldn't be using language of the 70s that has been used to promote hatred towards the users of this plant.
Thanks for the feedback. Coming recently from Brazil, we're still learning the appropriate language for a lot of things, since we mostly learned english from Brazilian english schools. So when we saw this page, it didn't occur to us that this was an offensive term. What are your suggestions of more appropriate terms? Just cannabis?
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#15I've been looking for a something to do virtual cards for single-use payments and/or assign a virtual card to a vendor, preferably with webhook style notifications posting back to our servers with charge activity.
Is brex a fit now, or in the near future?
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#16This was a great write up. Also I hope I get a chance to use and love the product. I'm a founder who lives outside the US and has a US company and bank account via Stripe Atlas. Just signed up and got to the "Information Requests" branch of the flow. Entered my passport, birthdate in fine. But when it came to "Enter the person's address", there were only options for US addresses. I'm living outside the US so I hesita…
Pedro from Brex here :) Thanks for the feedback, super helpful! 1. We will make sure to support international addresses for the individuals, thanks! 2. On the submit button, did you sign-up from mobile/tablet by any chance?
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#17I've been looking for a something to do virtual cards for single-use payments and/or assign a virtual card to a vendor, preferably with webhook style notifications posting back to our servers with charge activity. Is brex a fit now, or in the near future?
You can easily create a virtual card for vendors and set low limits! But we don't support webhooks yet, but good idea. We don't believe in single-use payments because it's a pain to manage multiple card number, but we soon we'll have the ability to restrict a card to a vendor/category so you can just add specific payment abilities to the same card number.
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#18I looked at the page: https://brex.com/legal/prohibited_activities/ I am curious about the language that you have used - in particular the use of word "marijuana". What is the reason to use such derogatory, offensive and deeply racist term for cannabis? I thought that in 2018 tech companies wouldn't be using language of the 70s that has been used to promote hatred towards the users of this plant.
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#19I looked at the page: https://brex.com/legal/prohibited_activities/ I am curious about the language that you have used - in particular the use of word "marijuana". What is the reason to use such derogatory, offensive and deeply racist term for cannabis? I thought that in 2018 tech companies wouldn't be using language of the 70s that has been used to promote hatred towards the users of this plant.
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#20Love the clean sign up and landing page without endless jargon. Good job!
It would be great if you could clarify what the rewards actually are (especially since they are highlighted quite a bit).
eg: Are the rewards on AWS double/triple points on your spend? Or do Brex members received some amount of free compute credit?