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Stripe launches in Australia

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Re: Stripe launches in Australia

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Post by dharma1 »

dahx4Eev wrote: post #25
thairu wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are working on New Zealand, but don't have an immediate ETA for an New Zealand beta. Sign up at https://stripe.com/global to be notified when we launch

How about Hong Kong? Is it on the roadmap?

ditto, Hong Kong please!

Re: Stripe launches in Australia

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Post by Shizka »

pc wrote: post #6
Pephers wrote: post #5

Awesome! Can't wait until Stripe is launching in Denmark, hopefully soon!

We actually launched our Danish beta earlier this morning: https://twitter.com/stripe/status/491224812958650370 . You can sign up for an invite over at https://stripe.com/global .

That is awesome! In a project I'm doing we are currently assessing payment gateways and Stripe comes in as a clear first, but since it wasn't previously available for Denmark we had dumped it. Looks like we might not have to do that now!

The alternatives were a bit lacking in Denmark for the kind of payment flow we need. It is reminiscent of the one from Airbnb where the fees are collected in two steps - first from the customer and then for the merchant. We went through Braintree, Paypal, and Paymill among others, but there wasn't a good fit. And it was surprisingly hard to find information about the different payment gateways for a specific country. Really hope we can get access to this beta!

How do you draw invites for the beta and do you do the drawing more than once?

Re: Stripe launches in Australia

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Post by peterjancelis »

Great to see you guys coming to Asia-Pacific.

Can some Stripers on this thread give an estimate as to when Stripe will come to Hong Kong or Singapore?

I am bootstrapping a side project with a colleague and literally the only reason to even consider a UK partnership over a Singapore or Hong Kong one is that we want to use Stripe (or whatever clone gets there first).

Re: Stripe launches in Australia

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Post by JacobAldridge »

For the uninitiated, is there benefit in using Stripe (etc) over a bank merchant facility, when your business is already transacting $80,000+ per month?

Working with an Australian client at the moment about moving more sales online - I don't want to hold back information about other payment processors, but can't see any benefit over their existing bank facilities. What am I missing?

Re: Stripe launches in Australia

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Post by te_chris »

JacobAldridge wrote: post #58

For the uninitiated, is there benefit in using Stripe (etc) over a bank merchant facility, when your business is already transacting $80,000+ per month? Working with an Australian client at the moment about moving more sales online - I don't want to hold back information about other payment processors, but can't see any benefit over their existing bank facilities. What am I missing?

It all comes down to money right? Doing that volume probably doesn't make sense to use stripe as px and a merchant account is probably much cheaper due to leverage against the banks. I'm ecstatic about stripe though as it's so hard to start taking payments well here in Australasia. It's a massive boon for small operators.
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