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Re: Stripe Connect v2

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Heads up, another broken link. On this page: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/connecting-to-accounts#manag... There's a link to learn more about managed accounts: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/managed-accounts Which just shows "An unexpected error occurred" http://cl.ly/image/3V2k333n0d32

Sorry about that! Should be fixed now.

Re: Stripe Connect v2

#82
post #77
post #2

I mean god damn stripe has some great front-end engineers.

IMO: It's just awful. 1. Forced waiting for transitions everywhere. For a page I'll probably only ever visit once. You want to ease-in to things. I get it. But you shouldn't hide them. If you want a dithering transition as you scroll, do that. Don't fade-in. There's almost never an excuse for that. 2. What's the point of the "meteor"? To look cool? Is there any point at all to the businesses scrolling in it? Because…

Forced wait is definitely an irritating practice in web today. Not only is is distracting and usually valueless, it's delays what is important: information transfer.

Re: Stripe Connect v2

#83
post #52

The final piece of the puzzle - for me at least - is the ability to collect money as a business, then pay out my service providers through Stripe. There's a temptation to just let the money sit in my Stripe account, then payout using a "Special Case Transfer" https://stripe.com/docs/connect/special-case-transfers But this approach seems non-compliant. How long before we can payout service providers so the charge is s…

Do you mean a situation where the service provider is not directly providing the service to the customer, like paying out a caterer for your office lunch? I'd love to better understand exactly what you're trying to use this for. The short answer is that we're also really excited about the "many-to-many" use case of moving money around. There are many hurdles to getting there, and we're checking them off one by one. T…

We want to create a service that allows us to ship items on behalf of vendors who just upload artwork. Similar to CafePress. I've been trying to find out if Stripe's "special case transfer" could possibly be used for this but am not having much luck.

(i.e. Accepting a $30 charge for a customer and doing two transfers using source_transaction, one for $10 to Vendor 1 and one for $20 to Vendor 2)

I know that it would be compliant if we setup a Stripe account for each vendor and created the charge directly with their Stripe account but we want to be able to have customers checkout with items from multiple vendors.

Re: Stripe Connect v2

#84
post #68
post #49

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Some tradeoffs though; this is what it looks like on IE9 http://i.imgur.com/EkH81zN.png

It's working properly in our IE9 VM. Are you getting JS errors? Any other debugging info would be great.

I recommend you look at image optimization. Loading the /nl flag page from NL takes > 9 seconds. On a connection with 20Mb/s down with one of the best ISPs available.

There are 3MB of images on the page; the problem seems to be the high-res map, which weights in at 1.5MB. This image is 2290x798 and it's in an element of 1145x399. I've halved the resolution and converted it to a JPEG, now it's 0.2MB. To make it even easier for you to show the designers I've uploaded it here: http://imgur.com/XcGllGz.

EDIT: it's worse, almost every image in the carousel is double-sized and unoptimized.

Otherwise it's pretty.

Re: Stripe Connect v2

#86
Any stripe engineers here to explain how the new multi-party payments work? The documentation has a new "destination" field but doesn't explain if it can be used as a third party in a normal Stripe Connect charge.

I see a new Stripe-Stripe programmatic transfer, but is that the only way to do multi-party setups?

Re: Stripe Connect v2

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post #49

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+100. It looks modern yet very readable thanks to great typography. Loads fast. Fully usable on mobile as well. E.g. Gets a hamburger menu on Mobile. The featured client animation is simpler. The spinning globe icon is replaced by a static image. They have absolutely top notch front end engineering talent. This is in huge contrast to the current trend where they want to hijack browser's scrolling behavior for absolut…

Some tradeoffs though; this is what it looks like on IE9 http://i.imgur.com/EkH81zN.png

Stripe's product is for developers. I highly doubt there are developers using IE9. It's an audience Stripe can comfortably choose to ignore.

Re: Stripe Connect v2

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In our defense, they keep adding new EU countries. But no, we're not in all of them yet. We're in 13 EU countries, Norway, and Switzerland: https://stripe.com/global

If it helps, they seem to also be on the brink of losing some. Congrats on the launch!

Pluses: Stripe increases EU coverage

Minuses: global financial earthquake

Hmmm.... :)

Re: Stripe Connect v2

#89
post #68

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It's working properly in our IE9 VM. Are you getting JS errors? Any other debugging info would be great.

I recommend you look at image optimization. Loading the /nl flag page from NL takes > 9 seconds. On a connection with 20Mb/s down with one of the best ISPs available. There are 3MB of images on the page; the problem seems to be the high-res map, which weights in at 1.5MB. This image is 2290x798 and it's in an element of 1145x399. I've halved the resolution and converted it to a JPEG, now it's 0.2MB. To make it even e…

A wild guess, but maybe they target retina displays.

Re: Stripe Connect v2

#90
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's working properly in our IE9 VM. Are you getting JS errors? Any other debugging info would be great.

I recommend you look at image optimization. Loading the /nl flag page from NL takes > 9 seconds. On a connection with 20Mb/s down with one of the best ISPs available. There are 3MB of images on the page; the problem seems to be the high-res map, which weights in at 1.5MB. This image is 2290x798 and it's in an element of 1145x399. I've halved the resolution and converted it to a JPEG, now it's 0.2MB. To make it even e…

You are talking about the home page, right? Images are double size for retina displays. Your JPEG version is pointless, the flags are placed on top of the background and need an alpha channel. The page is indeed a bit heavy but not enough to impair the experience, first paint is still under 3s. Remember the audience for this page is 90% software developers, with powerful machines and high bandwidth.
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