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Show HN: Finally, You Can Accept Pre-Orders after Kickstarter with Celery

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Re: Show HN: Finally, You Can Accept Pre-Orders after Kickstarter with Celery

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The name "Celery" made me think of the task queue[1]. In both cases though it's a very random name. [1] http://www.celeryproject.org/

The logo looks almost identical to the old celery (task queue) logo. Not sure how the word "celery" relates to payments, but the name of the task queue is not random: rabbits like celery (rabbitmq.com).

Re: Show HN: Finally, You Can Accept Pre-Orders after Kickstarter with Celery

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post #9

For anyone curious, here is a sample/demo page after creation. https://www.trycelery.com/p/my-first-product It looks solid. I see that you mention that you have had quite a lot of press coverage for this.. by the "As Featured In". I can't find any related articles though and I'd be interested in reading them :) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=link%3Atrycelery.com Plus site:techcrunch.com trycelery.com doesn't work,…

Hey Chris, I'm one of the guys who worked on it. The company name is under Airbrite. We built an e-commerce API and Celery is powered off of it.

If that's the case, then your pants are on fire.

Re: Show HN: Finally, You Can Accept Pre-Orders after Kickstarter with Celery

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post #11

The name "Celery" made me think of the task queue[1]. In both cases though it's a very random name. [1] http://www.celeryproject.org/

The logo looks almost identical to the old celery (task queue) logo. Not sure how the word "celery" relates to payments, but the name of the task queue is not random: rabbits like celery (rabbitmq.com).

Celery is our play on words (sellery), since we're trying to help sellers with e-commerce

Re: Show HN: Finally, You Can Accept Pre-Orders after Kickstarter with Celery

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post #11

The name "Celery" made me think of the task queue[1]. In both cases though it's a very random name. [1] http://www.celeryproject.org/

The logo looks almost identical to the old celery (task queue) logo. Not sure how the word "celery" relates to payments, but the name of the task queue is not random: rabbits like celery (rabbitmq.com).

Ah, I can see that now. I know nothing about rabbits; maybe carrot (queuerot?) would have been a better choice.

Re: Show HN: Finally, You Can Accept Pre-Orders after Kickstarter with Celery

#17

easily sell swag on Celery with https://teelaunch.com/ -- simply send us your XLS/CSV of orders and we'll take care of the rest.

So I can launch a t-shirt business in the next 10 minutes? Cool. I just might.

that is correct

Re: Show HN: Finally, You Can Accept Pre-Orders after Kickstarter with Celery

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I'm missing something. Can you explain this to me as if I were five? I'm really gun shy with anything involving my customers CC data, and I suspect others are too.

Some of my concerns:

1) Authorize now but only charge when actually shipping is standard Visa policy. Doing it any other way is not allowed. Your system seems like a workaround for that, which raises my alarm bells.

2) To be clear - you are storing the credit cards in your vault (not Stripe's vault), and then running them through your Stripe account later as normal transactions? And this is cool with Stripe/Visa?

3) What do you mean PCI compliant? Do you think you are, or are you being regularly audited? Where are your servers? Credit cards are serious business; we need to know.

4) I'd expect a ton of chargebacks. How are those handled? What do the chargeback fees look like?

5) Is this Amazon Payments without the branding?

I want to love your product, but I wonder these things. Please help me understand!

Re: Show HN: Finally, You Can Accept Pre-Orders after Kickstarter with Celery

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The logo looks almost identical to the old celery (task queue) logo. Not sure how the word "celery" relates to payments, but the name of the task queue is not random: rabbits like celery (rabbitmq.com).

Ah, I can see that now. I know nothing about rabbits; maybe carrot (queuerot?) would have been a better choice.

carrot was already in use. I like Celery, we have no plans to change the name

Re: Show HN: Finally, You Can Accept Pre-Orders after Kickstarter with Celery

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post #18

I'm missing something. Can you explain this to me as if I were five? I'm really gun shy with anything involving my customers CC data, and I suspect others are too. Some of my concerns: 1) Authorize now but only charge when actually shipping is standard Visa policy. Doing it any other way is not allowed. Your system seems like a workaround for that, which raises my alarm bells. 2) To be clear - you are storing the cre…

I second qeorge's concerns about PCI compliance and credit card storage.

Futhermore, credit card processors and banks do not want to be on the hook for what happens when the items do not ship in these pre-order scenarios. The CCs are all about limiting their exposure to risk and this opens them up to a number of issues regarding products not shipped on time, not as advertised, etc.

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