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Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by jackerman »

danielskogly wrote: post #129
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…

Congratulations on the launch! This looks super nice, and if I understand it correctly, it's _kinda_ like creating a Checkout Session and redirecting the user, but more direct. About a year ago I was toying with the idea of creating a SaaS/product that worked completely without JS, and the only hurdle was that there currently is no way to simply answer redirect a client directly to the Checkout page after creating a…

Thanks for the great feedback, Daniel! We'll be launching an API for Payment Links soon; drop me a note at jackerman@stripe.com and you'll be one of the first to try it out.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by loceng »

arkitaip wrote: post #115
pgrote wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Until adoption increases enough and they decide they can milk customers even more?

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by edwinwee »

rexreed wrote: post #120
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?

We don't have plans for Stripe to help with digital delivery today out-of-the-box (you may want to check out some of the many Stripe plug-ins that assist with that: https://stripe.com/partners/apps-and-extensions?q=digital). If you want to roll your own email solution, you can listen for webhooks to trigger an email after a payment: https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by soheil »

The significance of this is that now it is officially rubber-stamped by Stripe to just have a payment form on a website with shallow content (ie. no products or services).

Send a link to get paid even if your product isn't launched yet, is what this is all about.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by bjohnson225 »

mfkp wrote: post #107
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"

Europe presumably where interchange fees are significantly lower than the US. I see:

1,4% + 0,25 € for European cards 2,9% + 0,25 € for non-European cards

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by vincentmarle »

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…

> no code required

While I love this, is there a way to also programmatically create these links?

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by abc11283 »

edwinwee wrote: post #98
munk-a wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suppose the danger to this is minimized but will stripe always require an affirmative action confirming the transaction on the destination link? I can see some issues related to link unfurling and pre-fetching activating the link before the user intends to interact with it along with malicious sites that inject JS to automatically follow the link. I'm curious if you have analytics collection on the first use case s…

In short, yes—confirmation is requried. Here's an example of a payment link: https://buy.stripe.com/dR6cOd9RJ8KS8nufYZ . It's a single link that can be shared with anybody (not unique to one customer). On the Stripe side, nothing is collected from the customer til they click. We've thought a lot about the security side of things—one of the reasons why Payment Links has its own subdomain and the payment page is hosted…

Very cool. One quick thought: tapping the company name doesn’t seem to do anything at the moment.

It would be very cool if it would either (1) redirect to the company website or (2) a “store” or directory showing other available Payment Links.

Excellent work!

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by athenot »

vmception wrote: post #61
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 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…

> the bankers often ask for information on the company like website presence of marketing materials.

It's not too long ago they would ask for information faxed using company letterhead, as a form of legitimization.

The signals they use to vet customers are, again, a decade or two behind what's technologically relevant.

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