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Stripe Elements: Pre-built UI components to help you create checkout flows

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Re: Stripe Elements: Pre-built UI components to help you create checkout flows

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Building smart checkout flows ... but that would include things like showing overviews of a shopping cart, allowing the user to make changes, and handling of physical products by the postal service, and I don't see that covered here.

That's more of a Shopify thing. Stripe is an API for processing payments, and you can build what you'd like on top.

Re: Stripe Elements: Pre-built UI components to help you create checkout flows

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I am really pleased to see payment gateways finally offering something worth paying the fees for. With this, or Braintree's hosted i-frames we get easy PCI compliance (SAQ-A) and proper UX. No more pop ups! Well done Stripe. If it was a bit cheaper it would be a great service.

Re: Stripe Elements: Pre-built UI components to help you create checkout flows

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Building smart checkout flows ... but that would include things like showing overviews of a shopping cart, allowing the user to make changes, and handling of physical products by the postal service, and I don't see that covered here.

"Stripe Elements are rich, pre-built UI components that help you create your own pixel-perfect checkout flows."

Stripe is addressing a component of e-commerce checkout UI with which they're most familiar. They aren't attempting to cover every single base.

Re: Stripe Elements: Pre-built UI components to help you create checkout flows

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Stripe front end developers are a true inspiration. I know the linked project isn't anything revolutionary, but as someone with a decade of experience in the field, it's impressive to see such attention to detail.

Their work somehow manages to be the right combination of cutting-edge flashiness (think Apple product landing pages) and a very down to earth usability. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it's rare to see interfaces that don't compromise one or the other at least slightly.

If any of you are reading this - congratulations, you should be really proud.

Re: Stripe Elements: Pre-built UI components to help you create checkout flows

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Stripe Elements is really good. It has been an absolute help.

Now if only we could get something similar for the Connect account stuff. So many different edge cases for countries and businesses, that the only reasonable approach is to autogenerate a form, and hope it makes sense.

Example: Japanese business need to put in their address in kana and kanji, both personal and business address. They also need to specify their gender (and are the only ones who have to do this). I believe they also need some form of personal and business IDs.

Form validation? Forgettaboutit!

Note: I realize these requirements are most likely not strictly determined by Stripe.

Here's hoping Elements expands to Connect accounts in the near future! :)

Re: Stripe Elements: Pre-built UI components to help you create checkout flows

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Can this be used for just frontend and not integrate with Stripe's backend? ie. use the "elements" form and not create the token to transmit card information. Sort of like a beefier Card library by jessepollak (https://github.com/jessepollak/card)
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