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Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by pc »

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.

There's a lot of cool stuff that uses Paystack on Twitter, e.g.: https://twitter.com/spokenword_lag/status/139677392471373005.... You can search for paystack.com/pay.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by mediaman »

orliesaurus wrote: post #92
CallMeJim wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having a huge market player release a feature that seems to overlap with your business can seem like bad news, but hearken! it's not all downside. The case study here is Facebook introducing the ability to schedule posts in Facebook directly, theoretically hurting Buffer et al. Take a look at Buffer's publicly-available revenue data [1]. Can you see when this change occurred? In general, by lowering the barriers to e…

No I don't see when the revenue got a hit? Pretty sure scheduling post has been around for a couple of years at this point?

That's his point: you can't see where revenue got hit, despite the functionality being replicated by Facebook.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by vmception »

benhurmarcel wrote: post #100
vmception wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey there, I'm an American in the US I've done business over chat apps for several years. Mostly being around Chinese, Nigerian, Indian, Phillipine and Malaysian crowds on those apps. You just have to listen, the trend has been clear but in the US people derive clout from pretty irrelevant things, such as a domain name, domain name information, and people with ideas think they need SEO and other marketing gimmicks. T…

Isn't it simpler to just have a single static web page, to show that presence? Even if it's just for western contacts such as banks.

Simpler? It's just "you can if you want".

The incorporated entity is just for limiting liability, having properties in its name instead of yours, and more easily convincing tax authorities that the universe of tax deductible expenses is so great.

You can be paid for goods and services immediately, these days.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by jamesvnz »

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…

Pleased to see this feature.

The one feedback I'd give is that it's hard for a user to know they can adjust the quantity on mobile. You have to click the "Details" link in the top right, and it's not really obvious to a user this is where they should go do this. (i.e. they may well think that they can't update the quantity).

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by arkitaip »

pgrote wrote: post #26
throwkeep wrote: post #2

Gumroad? https://twitter.com/shl/status/1397254513627705345

It always amazes me when things like this happen. If you look at the comments on this post you'll see people responding as if this a terrific new idea/frontier. Others respond with links to existing solutions as you did; Gumroad was my first thought, too. And to me, this is one of the main benefits of hackernews. I don't know everything, I don't know everything available, so I take value from everyone adding the opti…

This IS terrific news if you are using Stripe and want to stick with them as your one payment solution.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by iamben »

throxwaway98123 wrote: post #16
iamben wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it? Most people will still have a website of some sort to actually promote what they're selling. And if you hope to sell more than a handful of items a week, you have to start thinking about fulfillment and customer emails etc. This is definitely very cool, but I think Shopify still offers a lot (and still has their simple checkout this for $9 a month of whatever, which has a bunch of useful features).

We’ll see for how long. Shopifys success is largely due to the fact that they were willing to do the messy dirty work of making a Ecom CMS that works and doesn’t run on Wordpress. Tech has changed and is catching up. With stripe handling the hardest part about ecom, other companies will sneak up behind Shopify because of better tech and replace traditional websites

There are better solutions than wordpress. But the ecosystem - developers, plugins and those capable of developing for it - is huge. Same with Shopify.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by d0100 »

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…

Please add the possibility to programmatically create links with payment splits so I don't have to waste time re-re-re-re-re-inventing the wheel

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by truth_ »

ceilingcorner wrote: post #86
philjackson wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would the compromise be?

English is actually the neutral compromise language in India.

This is true, too.

Especially where people willfully get arrested to wipe down Hindi marks from metro stations [0] and people who have fasted to death to not have Hindi as the national language [1].

[0]: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/kannada-pride-wins-day...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potti_Sreeramulu

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by arkitaip »

throxwaway98123 wrote: post #16
iamben wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it? Most people will still have a website of some sort to actually promote what they're selling. And if you hope to sell more than a handful of items a week, you have to start thinking about fulfillment and customer emails etc. This is definitely very cool, but I think Shopify still offers a lot (and still has their simple checkout this for $9 a month of whatever, which has a bunch of useful features).

We’ll see for how long. Shopifys success is largely due to the fact that they were willing to do the messy dirty work of making a Ecom CMS that works and doesn’t run on Wordpress. Tech has changed and is catching up. With stripe handling the hardest part about ecom, other companies will sneak up behind Shopify because of better tech and replace traditional websites

I like this offering by Stripe but it won't attract any Shopify customers except the tiniest ones who are basically one product shops. Even then you want lots of features that Stripe Payment Links simply doesn't offer.

Now, if Stripe could offer their own hosted ecom solution... Hey, Stripe, get on this, it makes all the sense.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by rexreed »

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…

Hey pc! Is there a way to tie a digital delivery to the payment? Let's say you're selling an e-Book or an audio file or the latest collectable nonfungible (jk). Is there a way to have Stripe send a digital file or product upon successful payment completion without requiring a website backend to do that?
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