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Re: Stripe Checkout

#91

Post by nhangen »

Interesting move by Stripe, and I guess it explains why WePay and Balanced choose to focus on the API and not their d2c offerings.

With the 'remember me' feature, Stripe has chosen to impede upon the territory of their developers, which greatly concerns me.

I love their product, but one of the reasons I choose to use them is because of the options that their API provides. Is this a back-end play to eventually cut out developers, or is it designed to help them sell more product? I'm sure Stripe staffers will say that it's the latter, but if that's the case, who is the primary customer for this offering?

Re: Stripe Checkout

#92

Post by pc »

nhangen wrote: post #91

Interesting move by Stripe, and I guess it explains why WePay and Balanced choose to focus on the API and not their d2c offerings. With the 'remember me' feature, Stripe has chosen to impede upon the territory of their developers, which greatly concerns me. I love their product, but one of the reasons I choose to use them is because of the options that their API provides. Is this a back-end play to eventually cut out…

This move was directly motivated by our users telling us that they want us to help fix payments on mobile devices. If you want to use Checkout (it's completely optional, and will always be), we think it can help you a lot here. Checkout contains the smallest amount of Stripe branding possible.

> Is this a back-end play to eventually cut out developers

That's crazy! We built a new feature in response to feedback from developers. Nothing is going away.

Can you imagine ways of doing this better? (I'd genuinely love to hear suggestions.)

Re: Stripe Checkout

#93

Post by pbreit »

dirtae wrote: post #23

Stripe Checkout is nice, but unfortunately it's not suitable for us, since the "Remember me" checkbox cannot be hidden. "Remember me" is confusing for users. What is being remembered? By whom? When you're dealing with users who may already be concerned about whether it's secure to enter their credit card number into your website, I feel like the "Remember me" box is just adding another layer of confusion and concern.…

I suspect few merchants would experience meaningful drop-off by this inclusion and that over time the feature will benefit all Stripe-using merchants (by increasing the universe of "express checkout enabled" buyers).

As a developer (or really any type of employee or contractor) you should balance your desire for control with actual business results.

Re: Stripe Checkout

#94

Post by benjamindc »

toddmorey wrote: post #61

The demo of checkout available at https://stripe.com/checkout uses a canvas element for the demo animation. It's a really well done walkthrough. Was it entirely custom-coded or done using a framework / tool to help?

The canvas element is only used on Chrome as it has a hard time rendering animations above a big CSS radial-gradient. The whole animation is just using DOM elements, CSS transitions/animations and requestAnimationFrame. And yes, entirely handmade :)

Re: Stripe Checkout

#95

Post by pc »

dirtae wrote: post #88
pc wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, even if they're not returning for you , they might have entered their payment details on a different site. Out of curiosity, would you be open to running a test to see if "Remember me" has any impact in either direction?

Maybe, but I'm not sure that a test could change my mind, unless it resulted in a massive boost in revenue. Let's say that the vast majority of my customers do not want to use "Remember me", and that most of them examine the option and leave it unchecked, as is their desire. I've still introduced friction into my payment process, and possibly left a bad taste in the mouths of many of my customers. Maybe not enough th…

Any interest in coming by Stripe for lunch/dinner? I'd love to chat about this more and figure out a good way to accomplish this. (I.e., a product you'd be happy integrating that we iterate on over time.) I'm patrick@stripe.com.

Re: Stripe Checkout

#96

Post by kaa2102 »

I am getting ready to launch a product. I was using Wepay until they eliminated their checkout form. Switched to Stripe, read up on the API, and implemented the form. Now you tell me their is a simple checkout widget available. Sigh.

Re: Stripe Checkout

#97

Post by sahaskatta »

notastartup wrote: post #45

so how do I integrate this to my website ? I am currently using https://www.paymentiframe.com/ because the form looks really nice like a credit card form.

I'm not a security expert, but using a random 3rd party's IFRAME on your website to process payments through Stripe sounds INCREDIBLY dangerous. I would advise simply using Stripe Checkout https://stripe.com/docs/checkout

Simply paste their code into your HTML and you are about done. There's no other backend code, etc. required to make it work.

Re: Stripe Checkout

#98

Post by davidwparker »

benjamindc wrote: post #94
toddmorey wrote: post #61

The demo of checkout available at https://stripe.com/checkout uses a canvas element for the demo animation. It's a really well done walkthrough. Was it entirely custom-coded or done using a framework / tool to help?

The canvas element is only used on Chrome as it has a hard time rendering animations above a big CSS radial-gradient. The whole animation is just using DOM elements, CSS transitions/animations and requestAnimationFrame. And yes, entirely handmade :)

If the code is modular enough, would you mind open sourcing it (or blogging about how you developed it)?

Re: Stripe Checkout

#99

Post by ruok0101 »

We use Stripe checkout at http://leaddyno.com for subscription signups using the custom integration features of the checkout widget. We also use it in our app for customers to update their billing information. Its great they made such an awesome widget and ALSO made it very easy to customize and integrate programmatically! We love it!

Re: Stripe Checkout

#100

Post by dmunoz »

jeff18 wrote: post #77

We've been using Stripe Checkout at Humble Bundle for quite a while and it has been awesome. It is really easy to set up and once a customer has used it, it's incredibly easy to checkout in the future. Every couple weeks I hear about a new A/B test that is running to try to make it even better.

Small question about Humble Bundle's usage of Stripe: what prompted the move from requiring only the CC, expiration date and CVV, to full name and address? I was disappointed to see that.
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