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Re: Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

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They do, but you have to pay extra for all that. Stripe's pricing is simple enough for my small mind to comprehend without needing a spreadsheet.

That's a strong sell even after sign-up actually. We're trying to sort through Braintree charges right now and it is pretty painful...

Hey edash,

Shoot to hear you're having trouble sorting it out. Please feel free to reach out to Erin@braintreepayments.com . She'll help you out.

Re: Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

#62
I tried stripe a couple months ago and I was unimpressed. Mostly it was the pricing ( i think at the time it was 3.9% + 30 cents ) because I was looking to do smaller transactions $4.99 a month subscription.

But I got into the beta anyways and started playing with it. Within 10 minutes a rep was emailing me trying to get more information and that I wasn't ready to give out.

I ended up going with Paypal's micro transaction processing.

Re: Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

#64
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The front page says "Earnings are transferred to your bank account on a 7 day rolling basis.".

Thanks, I did miss that. There are probably better specifics in the TOS or elsewhere, I guess I was looking for something spelled out better in the docs. (Ex: "Use any standard US Business or Personal checking account") It's probably just me though :-)

Good suggestion, thanks.

Re: Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

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US only at the moment. Anyone know if they have plans for the UK? I would dearly love to say goodbye to PayPal forever.

We're definitely working on expanding to other countries. There's no definite timeline just yet, but it's one of our top priorities.

Another UK LTD company here wanting to use your service the minute its available, so many headaches to be avoided.

Re: Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

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I'm not sure about avoiding PCI compliance so easily. You're embedding their JS library on your page. That page has to be secure, otherwise if someone can inject malicious Javascript they can sniff the CC data as soon as they are entered.

You might not be storing the data on your servers, or transmitting the data directly, but security failures in your setup can cause the data to be leaked.

Compare this to sending the user to an external website via a redirect that lets the user at least verify that they're really talking to PayPal or whoever.

Re: Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

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As a beta customer, not having to deal with 95% of PCI and merchant accounts etc. really made a huge difference to how fast we got going.

Sure, but other companies, e.g., Spreedly, let you outsource PCI compliance as well. This is the first I've seen that let's you get away without having a merchant account.

We're abstracting away the problem of having a merchant account, because we generally believe there are too many complex moving parts.

Re: Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

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post #50

If a Stripe employee is reading this, tiny suggestion: I just shared the URL to stripe on both Facebook and G+. On G+, the nice little blueprint icon showed up as the thumbnail. But on Facebook, no icon at all making the post far less noticable in people's feeds. Just a tiny thing that will help the spreading of the word.

Thanks, fixed.
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