A little off topic, but it is the reason I excitedly clicked the link.... Anyone know the best way to ship money from a US account to an Australian account? Working in the US at the moment but need to get some cash back home to pay off a cc, really don't want to get screwed with fees.
Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card
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Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card
#42So, essentially, it's the same as Paypal's free personal transfers, just done through email with a after-the-fact confirmation. Shrug. I'm doing fine with the paypal app today.
Not to be sarcastic, but this is the first time I've ever seen anyone on Hacker News say that "they're doing fine" with Paypal.
That's because people tend to bitch about things online when they have a really horrible experience.
Most people don't go out of their way to tell everyone things are "just working".
Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card
#43Wow, does it literally work by cc-ing square on a regular ole email?
Hope not - it's easy to spoof the from address.
BCC'ing a secret stripe address would be OK, until you accidentally put it in CC instead.
Edit: That said, finding a secure way of achieving this kind of convenience would be pretty great. Really, the only way to rival Google's new attach money to emails in Gmail feature.
Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card
#44I assume they are processing the transaction as a refund to the recipient's card? There isn't enough detail to understand what's going on there. This looks like one of those "The investors made us put something up to start building buzz even though it isn't nearly done..." type of things.
It sounds more like an ACH. I read that there's a new API that allows sending money to any Visa card (not as a refund) but I've never seen it used.
It says "send to any debit card". That's different than "send to any checking account". You can't ACH to a debit card.
Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card
#45I assume they are processing the transaction as a refund to the recipient's card? There isn't enough detail to understand what's going on there. This looks like one of those "The investors made us put something up to start building buzz even though it isn't nearly done..." type of things.
you can only process a refund if you have the authorization code for an already existing txn on that card. you can't just issue one just by knowing the card details.
Actually you can process a "refund" (actually just a credit) without an existing authorization code. I've done it.
Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I opened the tab and missed the intro completely. Had to reload to see it again. They could include a "replay" option.
They should be using the page visibility api and not play the animation until you're actually looking at the tab http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/pagevisibility/intro/
Thank you I was wondering if there was an official way. I have a site that currently uses onfocus / onblur to turn on background scrolling for the grey ominous clouds. (http://www.residentevilradio.com) Wouldn't that work as well for video? The scrolling doesn't start until the page is in focus and pauses the scrolling when you navigate away. (constantly scrolling an image is apparently still a bit processor intensive). That and a lot of us browse with 40+ tabs open.
Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
It sounds more like an ACH. I read that there's a new API that allows sending money to any Visa card (not as a refund) but I've never seen it used.
It says "send to any debit card". That's different than "send to any checking account". You can't ACH to a debit card.
Except for prepaid, every debit card has a bank account behind it that you could ACH to.
Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card
#48Wow, does it literally work by cc-ing square on a regular ole email?
Hope not - it's easy to spoof the from address. BCC'ing a secret stripe address would be OK, until you accidentally put it in CC instead. Edit: That said, finding a secure way of achieving this kind of convenience would be pretty great. Really, the only way to rival Google's new attach money to emails in Gmail feature.
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Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card
#49Wow, does it literally work by cc-ing square on a regular ole email?
Hope not - it's easy to spoof the from address. BCC'ing a secret stripe address would be OK, until you accidentally put it in CC instead. Edit: That said, finding a secure way of achieving this kind of convenience would be pretty great. Really, the only way to rival Google's new attach money to emails in Gmail feature.
If someone were going to attempt this, they would look at far more than just the "From" address. There are a lot of email headers and other data points that can help figure out the identity and authenticity of the sender.
Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card
#50wow, amazingly clever and simple idea.