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Hijack warning: this seemed like a potentially relevant thread to a service I am looking for so I'm just going to post it in case any HN readers know of or provide this service. I'm looking for an online service that can automate our order processing workflow. Our current workflow is: (For additional clarity, I am surrounding separate entities in [ ]) [Distributor emails] a Purchase Order to [OurCompany] [OurCompany]…
The combination of the two services is about a 5% cut. As a non-developer, this combination looks appealing (I'm still waiting for someone to completely kill paypal), but that's a pretty big cut. Maybe I should just spend a few weeks learning to program instead :)
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We are working hard to make Stripe available outside the United States. What does this even mean? You've been saying this for a long time now. Is there really no other status update besides this? Why not be a bit more transparent about the process to people who want to give you money ?
Because people who say "Do this, I want to give you money" often turn out to: a. Not really have money to give. b. Not really want to give money. And frankly, "getting money" is probably low on Katherine's list right now. She has a product roadmap that she's executing on and doesn't want to be pulled away from. The money stuff will come later if she charts the right course. It's counterintuitive at first, but as an e…
I'm not disputing that, and I totally agree with your points, however unrelated to my questions they are. I'm not even going to use Stripe (as I have nothing that could utilise it at present), but I keep seeing that line appear over and over on this site.
People are going to get tired of being led on at some point. Something as simple as "We're handling regulatory/bureaucratic issue X at present in country Y" would be tremendously transparent compared to their handling of the situation at present.
The Stripe team is failing on this point.
The combination of the two services is about a 5% cut. As a non-developer, this combination looks appealing (I'm still waiting for someone to completely kill paypal), but that's a pretty big cut. Maybe I should just spend a few weeks learning to program instead :)
5% is a lot less than 30% on iTunes.
Shoplocket (I would guess) has a lot of users who are using it to sell retail items - which unlike app stores sales - have incremental costs as you sell more and more products. That 5% cuts into the margin of each item as opposed to an app that has a certain development cost and then no additional costs for increased sales (other than support + updates which would have to be done one way or another).
They're also not providing distribution, which Apple does.
The combination of the two services is about a 5% cut. As a non-developer, this combination looks appealing (I'm still waiting for someone to completely kill paypal), but that's a pretty big cut. Maybe I should just spend a few weeks learning to program instead :)
This is Katherine, Co-Founder of ShopLocket. Definitely understand where you are coming from in terms of fees. We've thought a lot about this. What we ended up doing for the pricing model is very much taking a cue from other services like Eventbrite, Etsy, and even lower plans on Shopify. Some competitors bring both there fees and the processing fees together, but it still usually ends up around 5%. This is actually…
thanks for replying. i guess my biggest question is what really differentiates you from shopify then?
I have a shopify store for an e-commerce site I run and a wazala store (don't ask) to sell apparel items related to a blog I run. While shopify is great, but if i was going to pay the 5% or so percentage fee, I'd probably spring for shopify's fuller featured site capabilities over shoplocket.
I get the lower setup fee for Shoplocket, but when I heard of Shoplocket, I was really hoping i'd be able to use this as a lower-cost, less-featured alternative to shopify that was less expensive as well so i could finally get rid of Wazala and host stuff on my site.
I still might give it a try - I'm really anxious to get rid of wazala, but it'd be interesting to know your ideal customer usage of the product.
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Because people who say "Do this, I want to give you money" often turn out to: a. Not really have money to give. b. Not really want to give money. And frankly, "getting money" is probably low on Katherine's list right now. She has a product roadmap that she's executing on and doesn't want to be pulled away from. The money stuff will come later if she charts the right course. It's counterintuitive at first, but as an e…
(For the record, I'm not talking about Katherine's business; I'm talking about Stripe.) I'm not disputing that, and I totally agree with your points, however unrelated to my questions they are. I'm not even going to use Stripe (as I have nothing that could utilise it at present), but I keep seeing that line appear over and over on this site. People are going to get tired of being led on at some point. Something as si…
The combination of the two services is about a 5% cut. As a non-developer, this combination looks appealing (I'm still waiting for someone to completely kill paypal), but that's a pretty big cut. Maybe I should just spend a few weeks learning to program instead :)
I totally agree, even for me 2.5% is cutting it.