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Pin is Australia’s first all-in-one payment API

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Re: Pin is Australia’s first all-in-one payment API

#25
Awesome, thanks for this. A couple of years ago I was trying to get setup with a merchant account at BankWest for online C/C processing - the BW guys in their online merchant team were totally taking the piss. Kept me waiting for 8 weeks without an answer - so in the end I had to go with PayPal.

Re: Pin is Australia’s first all-in-one payment API

#27

Something sticks out like a sore thumb in that API. Where's the param signing with a secret key?

This was exactly what I thought as well.

Using an HTTPS connection is all well and good, but it is not enough. HTTPS is susceptible to man in the middle attacks [1], and securing the params with a pre-shared secret key is essential.

The extra cost in 'complexity' is really far outweighed by the (warranted) extra security.

[1] http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/

Re: Pin is Australia’s first all-in-one payment API

#28
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I can't tell you how happy I am to see this. I was excited to hear about Braintree expanding to Australia a couple of days ago, but this is much more promising. Do you have plans to incorporate recurring charges as well? I've added myself to the invite list.

> Do you have plans to incorporate recurring charges as well?

Yep.

Re: Pin is Australia’s first all-in-one payment API

#29

OMFG THANKYOU!!! We've been ridiculously disadvantaged with no Stripe, Dwolla, WePay, Square etc. So many startups have been launched and funded (in the states) that were possible primarily due to Stripe integration. Not much of a choice here other than PayPal.

None of the other services you listed have a monthly fee. But I guess we Australians should be used to being ripped off by now.
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