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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

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Post by dangrossman »

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dangrossman wrote: post #18

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Why do I have this scummy feeling about Dwolla? Was it something I read? I have this feeling that they're going to evaporate as soon as sites start taking Dwolla payments and there's a reason for them to be targeted by criminals... will 25 cents per transaction really cover the fraud-prevention excellence they need to develop?

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This comment reads like outsourced blogspam. A string of English words with little substance.

> if anyone can take on the VISA/MC world it's Dwolla

Why's that? Why Dwolla and not the other dozens of payment services that have come and gone the past dozen years?

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Post by spiredigital »

AnyFu looks like a GREAT site. I've wanted access to subject area experts in the past for specific issues, but didn't want the delay involved with finding a long-term freelancer on oDesk or eLance. Plus, the quality is often sub-par. Best of luck to you. I signed up, and am excited to hear more.....

Re: How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days

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Post by iusable »

patio11 wrote: post #2

I 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 hi…

How was your experience all-in-all?

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Post by Codhisattva »

dangrossman wrote: post #51
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This comment reads like outsourced blogspam. A string of English words with little substance. > if anyone can take on the VISA/MC world it's Dwolla Why's that? Why Dwolla and not the other dozens of payment services that have come and gone the past dozen years?

FiSync for one.

Re: How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days

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Post by Codhisattva »

dangrossman wrote: post #18
Codhisattva wrote: post #12

Keep an eye on Dwolla.com if you want an alternative payment system without the 2.9% transaction fee.

Why do I have this scummy feeling about Dwolla? Was it something I read? I have this feeling that they're going to evaporate as soon as sites start taking Dwolla payments and there's a reason for them to be targeted by criminals... will 25 cents per transaction really cover the fraud-prevention excellence they need to develop?

The Dwolla story is a great one - young, successful serial entrepreneur takes aim at a market dominated by just a few old school players (and I'd lump PayPal in as old school too) and in a few years is processing tens of millions of dollars.

The team is reinventing transaction processing.

Seems to me like a company that would appeal to the Hacker News community but whenever I bring it up, I get down voted. I don't understand why.

What's not to like about it's success so far?

Re: How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days

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Post by aiscott »

dennisgorelik wrote: post #41
jv22222 wrote: post #28

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> For example, what if customer does not upgrade the plan, but downgrades? How would proration work in that case? Stripe deals with the prorata and credits the customers account next billing cycle. > what if Stripe cannot charge credit card for a day or two Stripe re-trys at time intervals you specify > What if user managed to resubscribe again using different credit card Stripe handles the connection because a subsc…

> Stripe handles the connection because a subscription and card is attached to a customer object. That all sound good in top-level theory. In practice that would mean that I have to reattach new credit card to the same customer object in Stripe. I didn't even research if it's possible, but if it is - that's a different API call. Different than API call for signing up new customer. Updating credit card on existing cus…

Maybe you should ask the Stripe people these questions.

Re: How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days

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Post by patio11 »

carbocation wrote: post #46
patio11 wrote: post #45

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Yep. Technically speaking, I got three null results: not enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis (that A was about equal to B). Specifically, I tested 1) Paypal + Google Checkout (my previous arrangement) vs. credit card (Stripe) signups alone 2) PP + GC + CC vs. CC 3) PP + GC + CC with in-application upgrade messages pushing insta-gratification CC-based upgrades vs. plain PP + GC + CC with in-application upgra…

Are you measuring, for this specific AB test, the number of conversions? Revenue? Profit? (Admittedly they should all trend in the same direction with the exception of profit, which might depend on how well each company's imposed costs work for your situation.)

Number of sales. BCC (almost) always sells for $29.95, and the difference between the three in processing costs is rounding error.

Re: How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days

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Post by taf2 »

dangrossman wrote: post #42
taf2 wrote: post #29

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I really think this is the case of their website design not giving a feeling of quality... Their design is OK... but I bet if they could give the site a softer look and have it convey a feeling of assurance/reliability - they'ed have a much better product... I realize design is a small part of the equation, but it goes a long way in gaining trust in the brand... Right now their site gives me the feeling of "stodgy co…

There's nothing wrong with Authorize.net. Well documented, easy to implement API, automatic billing or charge-by-reference, reliable service, not overpriced... Why would you regret it?

As my service has evolved and newer payment options have emerged braintree, stripe... I'm just probably jealous envious of the coolness of those services... but you're right - authorize.net has not yet failed - good point.
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