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Both WePay and Stripe are US only. https://www.wepay.com/Does-WePay-allow-international-non-US-... https://stripe.com/help/faq So for now, I am stuck with Paypal.
US only. The only reason I hate living in Australia.
I'm probably missing out on something here.. I know that flaming PayPal is popular nowadays but I can't find an alternative with both Authentication and Adaptive Payments (which our app is completely based on)
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If only Stripe were available in other jurisdictions. Stripe, please come to Australia!
Doubleplusupvote on this one. Although I'm wondering if I can still use it if incorporated in the US.
US only. The only reason I hate living in Australia.
Or the UK. Bane of my existence.
Paypal sucks, blocks your account and keeps your money on the least excuse, and is a bureaucratic hell, those are good reasons to not use them. Redirects aren't, IMO.
The post is spot on. My initial attraction to Stripe was because of a reason mentioned in the post: not wanting to redirect or otherwise interrupt the normal order process of my site with another company's (branded) checkout form just to handle credit card payments. The other reason for initial attraction was of course their elegant API, which was very refreshing to see after having dealt with Intuit's QBMS API ( shu…
If only Stripe were available in other jurisdictions. Stripe, please come to Australia!
You can sign up at https://stripe.com/global to be notified when they do come to your country. I bet that also gives them a priority list.
Redirects are a good idea. Redirects mean that you don't have to juggle legally sensitive credit card data yourself, and your customers see a browser indication that they are talking to the genuine Paypal (or whomever). Paypal sucks, blocks your account and keeps your money on the least excuse, and is a bureaucratic hell, those are good reasons to not use them. Redirects aren't, IMO.
Again, it's still early, but we are seeing better conversion rates so far. The PayPal redirect gave some of our less technical users fits.
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But doesn't that API require you to submit the card number to them from your server and hence makes you have to do a ton of PCI compliance work?
Require? No. Unless you do more than 20k CC transactions/year, OR store CC numbers directly on your server, no one is going to require much of anything from you except one of those fake website scans.