GoCardless (YC S11) Launches PayLinks, A Bitly For Payments

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Post by hirokitakeuchi » Thu, May 31, 2012, 7:48 AM UTC

GoCardless (YC S11) Launches PayLinks, A Bitly For Payments
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Post by rayhano » Thu, May 31, 2012, 8:21 AM UTC

Great idea, but the implementation seems to lack UX thought. So many clicks to sign up and know what you're actually signing up to.

A quick user feedback session could help fix this. I assume this is a rival feature to Gumroad's approach in the States?

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Post by middus » Thu, May 31, 2012, 8:36 AM UTC

Looks a lot like https://gumroad.com to me, but without the need to have a credit card.

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Post by dabeeeenster » Thu, May 31, 2012, 9:06 AM UTC

We are using this and it's brilliant. The only thing missing (which I'm told is coming) is a user-definable Thank-You url. Without it we can't finish our goal funnel tracking.

But the integration is crazy simple - took us 1 minute to get set up.

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Post by karl_freeman » Thu, May 31, 2012, 9:10 AM UTC

Nice to see Groupay coming back to its roots with this. Good work guys.

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Post by hirokitakeuchi » Thu, May 31, 2012, 9:16 AM UTC

dabeeeenster wrote: post #4

We are using this and it's brilliant. The only thing missing (which I'm told is coming) is a user-definable Thank-You url. Without it we can't finish our goal funnel tracking. But the integration is crazy simple - took us 1 minute to get set up.

That is coming very very soon!

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Post by josscrowcroft » Thu, May 31, 2012, 10:47 AM UTC

This looks fantastic - hope to try it out soon.

Worldwide expansion of a simple service like this would be amazing.

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Post by pbreit » Thu, May 31, 2012, 1:58 PM UTC

dabeeeenster wrote: post #4

We are using this and it's brilliant. The only thing missing (which I'm told is coming) is a user-definable Thank-You url. Without it we can't finish our goal funnel tracking. But the integration is crazy simple - took us 1 minute to get set up.

Speed of setup is certainly nice and makes for an excellent demo but over time is almost totally irrelevant. As you note, far more important for a service to actually solve customer needs. If it had taken a half hour, a day or a week to set up but delivered increased sales, it would be much more compelling.

Doubly so for this bank transfer-based service which is already quite slow compared to credit card based services.

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Post by rbn » Thu, May 31, 2012, 2:23 PM UTC

rayhano wrote: post #2

Great idea, but the implementation seems to lack UX thought. So many clicks to sign up and know what you're actually signing up to. A quick user feedback session could help fix this. I assume this is a rival feature to Gumroad's approach in the States?

You are %100 correct. I was going to use Dwolla as my app's payment processor but their signup processes is horrible. So I opted for stripe.