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eFAX !?!?? eFAX is evil when you try to close your service - you have to go through their horrid 'chat' system and even then I had to cancel my credit card to get them to stop charging. And no... it's not just me: http://daviddahl.blogspot.com/2006/05/efax-sucks.html
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Stripe was something on the article I hadn't heard of before. It just seems so logical for cardholder information to go directly from the customer to the payment processor using javascript that I wonder why it hasn't been done before and what you're doing differently. Can you explain?
Well, hosted payment is not a new thing at all - so you iframe or link to a page you don't host which the customer uses - thus ensuring that card details don't hit your servers and don't give you a PCI surface. This is a fairly logical extension, I would guess that the reason it hasn't caught on more is because a JS requirement has typically been a red flag in e-commerce - 3% of users not being able to pay you once t…
Great list! Using a few of those myself If i can be cheeky I'd love an intro to the guys at Stripe, think it was a fair few months ago I registered my email for their Beta and would love to implement it for my startup.
Hey (Saikat from Stripe) -- not cheeky at all, but certainly flattering. Sorry we've been kind of quiet (we do read Hacker News, though). We're just working hard to implement the feedback we've been getting from our existing users, and we want to make sure our product scales well and gets better as new people use it. Here's a question: any chance you would be interested in having us watch you integrate Stripe? We've…
I'm looking forward to flipping the switch in the next week or two (just gotta get the bank account paperwork squared away) and seeing how things go.
now someone needs to make something to use the APIs of all these sites to be able to control users across all of them from a single location. bringing on new employees or terminating existing ones and having to do it across half a dozen different sites sounds kind of tedious and error-prone.
Indeed tedious and error-prone.
And that's just from the employee's point of view, the administrator having to create all these different accounts is probably even less happy about it.