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Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by igorzx31 »

rexreed wrote: post #130
leesalminen wrote: post #126

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You can use Stripe Webhooks + a "no-code" solution like Zapier to make that happen in ~15 minutes.

But if you have a few hundred products then this doesn't become so easy. And where exactly does Zapier deliver that file from in a secure way? If I'm going to go through all that trouble, I might as well just use a Wordpress electronic delivery solution or Woocommerce, in which case, what's the point of this website-less payment solution? If I'm gonna go website-less, then it needs to do what the website would otherw…

pretty sure you can easily use shopify for that

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Post by kennywinker »

frakkingcylons wrote: post #222
loceng wrote: post #132

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

Really? What has stripe done in the past to make it feel like they’re being greedy? Besides, nobody is using stripe because it’s the cheapest option.

> What has stripe done in the past

Take VC funding.

I'm being glib, but honestly - it feels like every large vc funded company is actually some many-layered plan to take over existing markets, and then exploit their new monopoly

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by kennywinker »

stanislavb wrote: post #218
throwkeep wrote: post #2

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

Gumroad is in for a bit of direct competition by a behemoth. I'm sure they won't have good sleep in the coming months.

I don't think so. Gumroad has a product delivery platform, where stripe only handles payment. I recently evaluated stripe vs gumroad for a product, and went with gumroad because they make getting the digital product to your customer VERY easy, while stripe leaves it all up to you

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by siruva07 »

mattbk1 wrote: post #71
siruva07 wrote: post #38

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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…

Just remember that flags aren't languages.

That's a great point.

In that case, I'd suggest the first two letters of the language, an "En" for English, an "Es" for Spanish, a "De" for German, etc.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by siruva07 »

pc wrote: post #41
siruva07 wrote: post #38

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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…

Good feedback -- thanks. We've long struggled to find the right balance between "convenient/automatically correct" and "non-confusing" in site localization.

It's a tricky balance.

I'm building this myself with a product currently only in English in a Spanish speaking country, for speakers of both, so it's top of mind.

IMHO, the automatic detection being wrong is less of an issue with a greater ease of language selection.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by ec109685 »

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…

Apple Pay worked great (one sticker purchased). Will you be integrating Chrome's equivalent?

Also, there's no good way to share the original link. The one after you click (and page you end up on after purchase) is crufty: https://checkout.stripe.com/pay/cs_live_n1WDYJkCi1wp32H4Zlh8...

Versus: https://buy.stripe.com/dR6cOd9RJ8KS8nufYZ

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by bgilly »

jackerman wrote: post #204
bgilly wrote: post #195

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This is great. I've just implemented it to replace the clunky mess I had in place while waiting for this type of product from Stripe. Thank you!

Thrilled to hear it, and can't wait to hear your feedback!

So far I have no feedback other than how smooth it was to use. I had a subscription plan already in place. Chose option to create link. Put the link on my website where I used to have a 3rd party’s stripe front-end. Now it’s direct and clean and supports faster payment mechanisms. Awesome!

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by chrischattin »

frakkingcylons wrote: post #222
loceng wrote: post #132

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

Really? What has stripe done in the past to make it feel like they’re being greedy? Besides, nobody is using stripe because it’s the cheapest option.

They stopped refunding payment processing fees on refunds, for one.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by swyx »

swyx wrote: post #75
giarc wrote: post #66

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Gumroad deposits to Paypal, Stripe deposits to bank account. Seems like a big difference, no?

more than that. Gumroad also acts as a merchant of record (much much cleaner for international and EU/US taxes), provides social proof (reviews) and a discovery marketplace, together with a no code frontend with fulfilment (aka it hosts your files) Stripe has a ways to go but certainly can clone these if they wish)

Update: I've done a 3 minute demo of Payment Links in case anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLNFJNoL9e8
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