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Re: Stripe Payment Links

#101

Post by slivanes »

siruva07 wrote: post #38
pc wrote: post #23

(Stripe cofounder.) While there are lots of antecedents (this is, after all, just a checkout page with a URL), and even though this was substantially inspired by the growth of the no-code ecosystem[0], the thing that's interesting to me about the payment link "space" is that it's a use case that really took off in other markets first -- Nigeria, India, Philippines, etc. I suspect that staying abreast of important new…

Super sleek! A minor feedback for the marketing page. I’m an English speaker currently in Mexico City. The webpage first opened in Spanish based on my location. It only took a few seconds to figure that I could change the language just above the footer, but my UI recommendation would be to put the location/language switcher next to the upper right sandwich (I’m on mobile) in a circle with the flag of my default count…

Accept-Language header, to me as a developer, has always been the better approach to this problem. It has language prioritization built-in to the value.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

#103

Post by lostcolony »

farazbabar wrote: post #88

I believe I patented this in 2016: https://patents.justia.com/patent/10664883

And you're posting it here because...why?

If you think there's a legal issue, this, obviously, isn't the forum.

If you want to tell people "I had this idea first!" this also isn't the forum; you're either wrong, or are pointing to the wrong thing (patents aren't particular readable or understandable); show us the thing you made.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

#104

Post by jackerman »

flipnotic wrote: post #34
pc wrote: post #23

(Stripe cofounder.) While there are lots of antecedents (this is, after all, just a checkout page with a URL), and even though this was substantially inspired by the growth of the no-code ecosystem[0], the thing that's interesting to me about the payment link "space" is that it's a use case that really took off in other markets first -- Nigeria, India, Philippines, etc. I suspect that staying abreast of important new…

Can you think of a most-popular use case you've seen payment links used for outside the US? Like, are people selling goods, or e-content, or services? And thank you for making e-commerce more seamless.

We've been live with Payment Links in beta to around a hundred sellers for the past few weeks, and we've seen businesses selling both digital goods/services, as well as physical goods. Sellers have been sharing Payment Links on social media, via email newsletters, and in support interactions. And we've also seen some sellers generate QR codes that send their customers to a Payment Link. Excited to see what you use Payment Link to sell!

Re: Stripe Payment Links

#105

Post by jackerman »

raviisoccupied wrote: post #47

I absolutely love this. Last year during the pandemic, we were using Eventbrite to process payments for events we were running. The cash we were getting was keeping our business going, until they decided to change their policy regarding pay outs (presumably due to cash flow issues of their own). In the end we found that using Typeform with a Stripe integration was the best way to reliably and quickly transact with ou…

Awesome! Can't wait to hear your thoughts/feedback on Payment Links; feel free to reach out at jackerman@stripe.com

Re: Stripe Payment Links

#106

Post by markus92 »

vincentkriek wrote: post #84
grenoire wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Implemented a small app this, such a clean API. Love it and hope it goes pan-European. Although I think it may be the Dutch money culture that got it to blow up so bi, ha!

I'm curious, what is the "Dutch money culture"? I haven't used paper money in ages, is that specifically Dutch or are you hinting at something else?

The "I send you a tikkie for this .25ct tomato paste can"-meme.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

#107

Post by mfkp »

gorgoiler wrote: post #90

1.4% doesn’t sound too bad. I believe chip and pin point of sale is .65% to .85%. What are MasterCard / Visa’s rates for online sales?

Which market are you in? In the US I'm seeing "Starts at 2.9% + 30¢ per successful charge"

Re: Stripe Payment Links

#108

Post by Benjamin_Dobell »

jackerman wrote: post #93
Benjamin_Dobell wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the promise. However, I recently set up an e-commerce website for my wife. I was actually a bit shocked to discover that whilst Stripe's offerings are like 95% of the way there, that missing 5% means you can't take advantage of said offering at all. 1. I setup Stripe Checkout for subscriptions and thought I was good to go. However, my wife wanted to take sign-ups in anticipation of a set launch date in the fut…

Thank you for all of your feedback, Benjamin. 1. We're hoping to bring the `billing_cycle_anchor` property to Stripe Checkout in the near future. I'll keep you posted and let you know when this launches. 2. Good point, we will take a look into this. 3. We're launching shipping line items in Stripe Checkout's `subscription` mode in the coming months. 4. You're correct, we don't support coupon "stacking" today, and thi…

Thanks for your reply. It's appreciated.

I edited to add a 5th pain point, but I think it mostly comes down to subscriptions currently being geared toward digital offerings rather than physical products.

Needless to say, I'm very much looking forward to when I can throw away all my code and use Stripe Checkout + the Stripe Customer Portal :)

Re: Stripe Payment Links

#110

Post by edwinwee »

samblr wrote: post #109

Hey Patrick, this is cool. Is payment link creation available as an API ? That would change everything

Coming soon! Could you email us and we'll let you know once it's available? jackerman@stripe.com + edwin@stripe.com
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