Stripe launches German beta
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Stripe launches German beta
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#3It's astonishing how quick they can expand something as complicated as payment processing to many - bigger and smaller - countries in Europe.
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#4Sadly Germans hate credit cards.
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#5It's astonishing how quick they can expand something as complicated as payment processing to many - bigger and smaller - countries in Europe.
One you get into one EU country, dealing with other EU countries is probably quite a bit easier...
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#6Sadly Germans hate credit cards.
I'm in an office in Berlin as I type this. Every person around me has a credit card. Every German I personally know, including my destitute student friends, have credit cards.
It's not like online retail isn't a huge business here, and credit cards are the easiest payment method available, due to the incredibly restrictive nature of German banks.
A lot of startups here have been screaming for this day.
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#7It's astonishing how quick they can expand something as complicated as payment processing to many - bigger and smaller - countries in Europe.
One you get into one EU country, dealing with other EU countries is probably quite a bit easier...
Especially if that first country is Germany, as they're one of the economic powerhouses of the EU.
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#8Sadly Germans hate credit cards.
Really?
I'm certain they hate the notion of credit too which has long been attributed to their post-war mindset.
Are other European notions similarly disposed towards credit (and thus credit cards), too?
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#9Sadly Germans hate credit cards.
Credit card usage is somewhat lower in Germany (though by a smaller margin than people think), and we considered holding off 'till we had a better answer to this. But we thought about it more, and talked to a bunch of German companies, and realized that a lot of German users want to sell to a global market in the very same way that, say, an American company would -- there isn't necessarily a tight coupling between the geography of your customers and the geography of your business. (This is what's great about the internet!) Travis CI is a good example here.
Seen this way, we figured it made sense to bring the capabilities that US users have today to Germany as quickly as we could.
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#10Just got accepted into the Australia Beta, its working awesome.