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Payments Startup Stripe (YC S10) Joins the Billion Dollar Club

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I know it's not a priority but. Will you guys bring your magic to Brazil at some point? I would be really interested in it. On a side note I see Australia is in Beta :D which is great. Thanks

We definitely will. (Sorry we don't have a timeline, though.)

No Worries! Congrats and keep up the good work!

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I'd love to know what are stripe's plans to launch in countries where payment gateways are regulated and one company has constitutional monopoly (looking at you, Chile).

As a fellow Chilean citizen I can just say: what?!

Is it Transbank? Redcompra?

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And thank you, as a developer stripe has made a ridiculously difficult process ridiculously easy.

Not ridiculously easy, rather slightly easier as the merchant still must maintain aspects of their environment covered by the PCI DSS as they are still delivering Stripe.js from their server environment. Here's a bit more information on that: http://pciguru.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/developers-beware-st...

(Stripe Developer) - tl;dr -- This claims that Stripe.js runs on the merchant's server environment, causing the server to be subject to PCI DSS. In reality, Stripe.js is served from Stripe's servers, and runs only in the browser, and this has always been the case.

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Hope to see you guys update the web interface a bit for a performance/little more flexibility. The API is great, but the web interface could use a bit more love :)

Agreed. On the way!

Awesome :) One big issue (with actual effect on revenue of your users) you guys could solve better would be handling delinquent/expiring cards better. We had to built some things in house to deal with this on our end, as once you have a non trivial amount of paying customers it can become at least a small pain. I know there are webhooks for failed payments etc but this stuff is really difficult to surface in the web interface.

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(I'm not associated with Stripe) Can you please give at least one example or suggestion?

Sure, glad to give feedback, though this would make sense if you're familiar with using stripe. Our team is of course not one of Stripe's larger users, though we do use them enough to fall under one of the volume discounts. Here's a few things that I can think of from the top of my head: When selecting a user to change the plan, the modal takes about 3-4 seconds to populate the new plan dropdown. The new plan dropdow…

This is great feedback -- thanks very much!

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I'd love to know what are stripe's plans to launch in countries where payment gateways are regulated and one company has constitutional monopoly (looking at you, Chile).

As a fellow Chilean citizen I can just say: what?! Is it Transbank? Redcompra?

Transbank indeed. As it stands today. it takes 2-3 months to get Webpay Plus (Transbank's payment gateway) implemented on the website.

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I am a developer interested in integrating a payment system into one of my sites where my target customers are mainly in the US. Could someone outline the major differences between Stripe and Balanced?

All depends on the country your bank account is in. As an Australian company selling to the US, we've kinda been left in the lurch with their AU beta. When it was launched we were told they were working on being able to accept/convert USD into AU accounts, so at the time we (incredibly naively) started building our subscription code around their API, assuming it'd be ready by the time we were. Almost 6 months later a…

Oh no — I'm very sorry to hear that. We try to avoid giving ETAs for functionality in order to avoid having people get stuck like this. (At the same time, we sometimes do indicate when we plan to do something — which does have this failure mode.) But we should probably have been clearer that it wasn't going to happen imminently — want to drop me a line at michelle@stripe.com and I'll see if there's any way we can help?

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Instead of just down voting this post, it would be helpful to know what specific parts of it are incorrect. This is the first I've heard of these objections.

I think the downvotes have to do with what is a pretty serious accusation and not apparently backed up with facts. What would be helpful is if the accuser produced a better description of what he feels is out of compliance, wrong or misleading.

Because the PCI guidance isn't factual enough? An essay could be written about the problems with broad statements like merchants only needing to worry about the inclusion of Stripe.JS and the use of HTTPS to be PCI compliant. Luckily those already exist. This one covers it pretty well:

http://pciguru.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/developers-beware-st...

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Now if Stripe could practice truth in advertising that would be great. SpecificallY: "Anyone accepting credit card payments must be PCI compliant. Stripe makes it easy to do so: Serve your payment page over SSL, i.e., the page's web address should begin with “https”, not “http”. Use Stripe.js or Checkout to accept payment information and transmit it directly to Stripe's servers. And you'll be PCI compliant!" https://…

Instead of just down voting this post, it would be helpful to know what specific parts of it are incorrect. This is the first I've heard of these objections.

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