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Plasso: Payments Made Simple

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Re: Plasso: Payments Made Simple

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Post by ams6110 »

pbreit wrote: post #27
s04p wrote: post #16

Stripe checkout is as easy to integrate & also well designed. Why bother to have yet another middleman in the game.

Stripe inexplicably does not offer payment pages.

Not so inexplicable. They don't want to deal with end-user support. Same reason WePay canned all their end-user features.

Re: Plasso: Payments Made Simple

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Post by markhelo »

ianwootten wrote: post #11
twrkit wrote: post #10

So why pay extra for a Stripe wrapper?

So you don't have to do anything yourself? I personally don't want to set up a https certificate every time I want to take a payment.

If you set up your domain on Cloudflare and use their SSL, you literally do not need to worry about SSL certs.

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Post by tbrooks »

deweller wrote: post #9

Note that all plans are in addition to Stripe's 2.9% and 30 cents per transaction. The big 0% under the platinum plan header implies that you will not pay credit card fees. In fact, you will be paying $139/month plus 2.9% and 30 cents per transaction.

Incredibly misleading. 0% equals 0% when 0% is actually 0%, not 2.9%.

Re: Plasso: Payments Made Simple

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Post by dabernathy89 »

drewwilson wrote: post #28

Thanks for the discussion everyone one :) Glad you feel its worth talking about! A little history just for fun: - I launched: http://quixly.com back in 2010 after a year in development. It was the first app i had seen that got rid of the idea of a shopping cart and let you pay URLs. - Then I launched Space Box in 2012. The goal was to make Stripe user friendly for the non-developer. - Plasso is now the first step in…

This is neat. What about selling something (like a premium WordPress plugin) that might have updates? Is there anyway to automatically notify or even deliver to previous customers?

Re: Plasso: Payments Made Simple

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Post by starterblock »

Very nice design, pretty easy to understand, and interesting. But without knowing the Plasso name (or Spacebox, for that matter), I need to especially trust an entity working in the payments space. Finding the "about" page was tedious and looking at "goods being sold on Plasso" led to several empty pages. Trust is paramount and I think you'd do well to convey that you're trustworthy. Good luck!

Re: Plasso: Payments Made Simple

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Post by gesman »

We support Stripe and charge some on top of it for convenience.

It's like a delivery service that dusts the furniture after it's being delivered but doubles your delivery charges.

Re: Plasso: Payments Made Simple

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Post by kolev »

maxmcd wrote: post #5
FriedPickles wrote: post #4

Looks awesome! Is there an example of a "space" we can see?

https://plasso.co/s/ntaOPsnnlu https://plasso.co/market/drew-s-store/ There are a few demos in the "Sell everything" section

It's interesting that there's a spinner on the CVV of the credit card.

Re: Plasso: Payments Made Simple

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Post by kolev »

deweller wrote: post #9

Note that all plans are in addition to Stripe's 2.9% and 30 cents per transaction. The big 0% under the platinum plan header implies that you will not pay credit card fees. In fact, you will be paying $139/month plus 2.9% and 30 cents per transaction.

I don't get why companies like this can charge a percentage equal to the credit card fee. If you pay 6% + $0.30 (on low ticket items, $0.30 could add additional few percent), but your margin is, let's say, 20%, you literally need to pay a third of your margin for processing. If you sell your old shoes or something that doesn't cost you anything but your time, then it's okay, but all these marketplaces literally are saying: "Low-volume low-margin merchants are not welcome!"
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