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Fun to see stripe in europe, however in europe almost nobody pays by card, or let alone: even owns a credit card. We pay by baking systems such as Ideal (in the netherlands).
Great to see the acceleration of roll out of counties ! DE does have lower CC usage, but I think it will be more use for DE businesses operating internationally to accept in EUR & USD. btw. I threw together a handy tool for calculating the cost of a transaction. http://www.blackdog.ie/stripe/ edit : clarity
Completely off-topic - but why does a consultancy company in Munich have a .ie domain? :-)
What criteria is Stripe looking for to get in the beta? Anyone know?
No criteria per se -- everyone is welcome. We're just rate-limiting it a bit to make sure that everyone has a good experience.
So... is this what I need to do to get into the beta? Or is there something else I need to do?
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Another one, for me, is that I'd feel bad about being too lazy to simply withdraw some cash from the ATM and carry it around with me. It's the 21st century. I don't want to think about whether I should get 20 or 30 Euro from an ATM, let alone carry 100 Euro in my wallet. In fact, I find you reasoning quite weird: technology exists to make mundane and boring tasks unnecessary. Even worse is this 'digital wallet' that…
Of course, it's all fine and cool until health insurance starts increasing your monthly payments because you bought too much "unhealthy/non-bio" food. Or when you start getting longer TSA "treatments" because you purchased "wrong and dangerous" book. Or you "just" start getting super creepy targeted advertisement on your mailbox. No thanks, anything that technically allows tracking will be tracked eventually, if not…
Agreed. But digitalization of society is not something that can be stopped. Just by posting here on Hackernews, you left plenty of traces that can be mined.
We should demand from our governments that laws are put into place so that our data is not only protected, but controlled by ourselves.
To those who say "I almost went with PayMill, thank god Stripe is here now" don't forget that PayMill features direct debit . Depending on who your customers are this might be an important feature for you!
For most SaaS/e-product models "direct debit" is not an option because a customer can do a refund without a reason for at least 6 weeks. It also has no CVV2, so you can just abuse some charity bank details for a direct debit purchase. Good luck dealing with fraud.
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How does Stripe get away without the paperwork?
That's what I'm wondering too. They require zero paperwork, though, and Paymill did tell me that the paperwork they sent me was mandatory for all money-processing companies.
But on the other side this means, that stripe is less secure?