How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days
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How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days
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Re: How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days
#2I implemented Stripe for BCC, too, as an experiment. (I was going to milk a blog post out of it, but all my A/B tests so far have been pushes versus using Paypal, so it wasn't important enough to write before Christmas and I've been swamped since.)
It is every bit as easy as Justin says. BCC's integration was in production in 3 hours, including the wholly-new purchasing flow that my site required to support it. No hitches since then at all.
P.S. I am not unhappy in any way about Paypal, I just experiment with things all the time.
Re: How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days
#3Anyone know when we can expect this in the UK?
I've heard good things about Stripe so far but as much as I know it's only available in the USA at current
Re: How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days
#4Has Stripe fixed their webhooks so that they re-POST when the endpoint is down? They can't be compared to IPN until they implement it reliably... without that you have to manually reconcile Stripe's data with your own database to be sure you haven't lost a post during brief downtime, network glitch, transient application or proxy error...
> Setting up a merchant account usually takes weeks and requires hours of paperwork to be filled
That's a bit of an exaggeration... I've worked with 3 different merchant service providers underwritten by 3 different banks, and none of them took more than 2 days to approve an application, and the applications were like two pages long... 10 minutes to fill out. Names and socials of the principals of the business, estimated ticket size and monthly volume, description of your business, signature, date, send.
If you have the volume, that extra percentage point Stripe will shave off your gross sales is a lot to throw away.
They're a neat company with a neat API, but they're firmly in the "backup plan" category for me.
Re: How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days
#5Anyone know when we can expect this in the UK? I've heard good things about Stripe so far but as much as I know it's only available in the USA at current
I hope they launch here soon. It's a really awesome service.
Re: How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days
#6Great post Justin!
One of the reasons we formed a US LLC (we're Canadians) when building Appifier was to work with Stripe. They're simply the best way we've found to handle online payments without the headache.
I can confirm that at the moment our experience (other than some foreign ownership headaches that were promptly resolved by their support staff) has been entirely positive. Integration was a breeze and the reporting is top notch.
Best of luck!
Re: How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days
#7Has Stripe fixed their webhooks so that they re-POST when the endpoint is down? They can't be compared to IPN until they implement it reliably ... without that you have to manually reconcile Stripe's data with your own database to be sure you haven't lost a post during brief downtime, network glitch, transient application or proxy error... > Setting up a merchant account usually takes weeks and requires hours of pape…
Exaggeration corrected. Thanks for the feedback.
Re: How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days
#8Has Stripe fixed their webhooks so that they re-POST when the endpoint is down? They can't be compared to IPN until they implement it reliably ... without that you have to manually reconcile Stripe's data with your own database to be sure you haven't lost a post during brief downtime, network glitch, transient application or proxy error... > Setting up a merchant account usually takes weeks and requires hours of pape…
> Has Stripe fixed their webhooks so that they re-POST when the endpoint is down? They can't be compared to IPN until they implement it reliably... without that you have to manually reconcile Stripe's data with your own database to be sure you haven't lost a post during brief downtime, network glitch, transient application or proxy error...
We're working on this right now. It's part of a larger redesign of our webhook system that we started right before the break, and we should be able to launch it pretty soon. Our webhooks are the last somewhat legacy part of our product, so I'm pretty happy that it's getting reworked.
Re: How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days
#9I will also concur that Stripe is very easy to add to a site, test, and turn on billing. I just spent almost 8 hours building a stock photo site for my wife and I to use (http://sleepybird.us/sedonaredrocks - written in Clojure :-) and I don't think that the Stripe part of it took more than 90 minutes total, largely because I found a Clojure library for Stripe and everything just worked.
Re: How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days
#10Great post Justin! One of the reasons we formed a US LLC (we're Canadians) when building Appifier was to work with Stripe. They're simply the best way we've found to handle online payments without the headache. I can confirm that at the moment our experience (other than some foreign ownership headaches that were promptly resolved by their support staff) has been entirely positive. Integration was a breeze and the rep…
I'm also based in Canada (Mtl) and I has been waiting for months for their international support.
What were the other reasons (if you wan to share)? I'm interested in the experience of making US companies from Canada and what are the time and money expenses this generates.