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Re: Send payouts with Stripe

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Post by JshWright » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:07 PM UTC

amfeng wrote: post #25

JshWright wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On an only moderately related note... here are two more things that I would love to see on the roadmap: 1) Better support for disputes in the API (right now to get all our disputes, we have to pull _all_ charges and walk them...) 2) The ability to generate test disputes. You guys provide an awesome test API, but there's no way to generate disputed charges in testing, so I can't test any of that functionality...

1) You should be able to pass in "disputed=true" to the charge listing call: GET https://api.stripe.com/v1/charges?disputed=true 2) Definitely. We'll keep that in mind!

Ah, the folks in your IRC channel (and your docs) didn't know that one... Awesome, thank you!

Re: Send payouts with Stripe

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Post by tpurves » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:18 PM UTC

zende wrote: post #43

(I work at Balanced) Balanced ( https://balancedpayments.com ) provides a payouts solution for marketplaces like redditgifts, Crowdtilt, Fancy, Artsy, Visual.ly, and many others. The differences with Stripe include the money being available for payout immediately (instead of 5 days), and the recipient will receive the money the next business day. Balanced has also performed a lot of work to verify merchants with as l…

As with all money transfer products, the technology to transfer funds to an individual is generally the fun/easy part. Wait until you find out about America's (and most other countries) wonderful anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing compliance laws that can land you in less-fun places like federal prison if you don't use this sort of webservice very, very carefully.

Re: Send payouts with Stripe

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Post by toomuchtodo » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:19 PM UTC

seiji wrote: post #56

ceejayoz wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And your question has a "gotcha" axe to grind.

Looks like the HN backend needs another stealth founders-only feature: highlight known troublemakers to remind people to probably not interact with them unless you know you can win a pet argument.

Doesn't even need to be a backend feature. A Chrome extension (a la Reddit Enhancement Suite) that lets you tag people would be more than sufficient.

I understand Aaron's motivation. Asking for that info on HN though is the same as starting a fight in a Starbucks. We're better than that.

Re: Send payouts with Stripe

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Post by jedberg » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:19 PM UTC

mtgx wrote: post #60

When is there going to be a serious Paypal alternative that works pretty much everywhere, internationally?

Not for a long long time. The reason Paypal doesn't work everywhere is because of crazy laws, not technology.

And Paypal can afford many more hours of lawyering than most startups.

Re: Send payouts with Stripe

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Post by erikpukinskis » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:21 PM UTC

swanify wrote: post #50

zende wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Balanced Payouts service has been available for some time. Our ACH Debit (pay with bank account) is in Beta however.

Taking over this thread talking about your service is pretty awful - surely you can announce your features in your own right rather than riding on the back of Stripe's name?

For another opinion, I'm a Stripe customer, and I really appreciate Balanced talking about their product in this thread. They're not trashing Stripe, they're just talking about the differences between the products.

It seems cordial and I would rather read about the two products together than in some later thread I'll probably miss.

Re: Send payouts with Stripe

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Post by conductr » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:24 PM UTC

What does the payee see? My business name, stripe's name, etc

Re: Send payouts with Stripe

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Post by amfeng » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:27 PM UTC

conductr wrote: post #66

What does the payee see? My business name, stripe's name, etc

Your business name, along with the transfer statement descriptor you specify (though this varies by bank).

Re: Send payouts with Stripe

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Post by silverbax88 » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:28 PM UTC

I just used Stripe for one of my major annual events. I used PayPal the first two years, and all I can say is Stripe is far superior to PayPal. I do wish the dashboard was a little more configurable, but that's minor. Everything else is so much better.

Pros: + auto deposit into the back account without having to make requests

+ easy refund process

+ easy charge identification process

Cons:

- a few customers like using PayPal, so there's that. We dropped PayPal entirely from the online sign up and payment so for the users who wanted PayPal we had to send them our PayPal address. Not entirely smooth or professional, but that's not Stripe's fault, it's the reality of having an entrenched payment processor.

- the dashboard displays total volume, and that's it. Would like this to be configurable. Showing total volume since day 1 is pretty useless, especially since it does not appear to remove refunds.

Re: Send payouts with Stripe

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Post by amfeng » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:32 PM UTC

silverbax88 wrote: post #68

I just used Stripe for one of my major annual events. I used PayPal the first two years, and all I can say is Stripe is far superior to PayPal. I do wish the dashboard was a little more configurable, but that's minor. Everything else is so much better. Pros: + auto deposit into the back account without having to make requests + easy refund process + easy charge identification process Cons: - a few customers like usin…

Which parts of the dashboard in particular? Would love to hear your feedback at amber@stripe.com!

Re: Send payouts with Stripe

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Post by daveoh » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:34 PM UTC

samwillis wrote: post #47

Any chance of this coming to the UK? Loving the UK Beta for cc payments!

The uk beta is awesome! I would love to know when we can send money to UK and other EU accounts. Any stripe employees care to comment on any potential roll out roadmap outside of the US?