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Inside Stripe

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Post by frankdenbow »

Been very pleased working with Stripe for one of my projects. It just feels like it was very carefully thought out. Hope they continue to make strides in the developer community.

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Post by old-gregg »

Stripe has been fantastic for us at http://mailgun.net

Aside from solving the problem of dealing with recurring payments, they bring some unexpected benefits to the table. Their reporting (and the overall dashboard design) is so good that we canceled our original plans for building our own reporting completely - we just link directly to Stripe reports and customer pages from our own backoffice admin portal.

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Post by iseff »

old-gregg wrote: post #3

Stripe has been fantastic for us at http://mailgun.net Aside from solving the problem of dealing with recurring payments, they bring some unexpected benefits to the table. Their reporting (and the overall dashboard design) is so good that we canceled our original plans for building our own reporting completely - we just link directly to Stripe reports and customer pages from our own backoffice admin portal.

Agreed. Stripe is working wonders for us at: http://www.mobiledevhq.com

We tried to integrate with PayPal's recurring APIs for three weeks, scrapped it when we found Stripe, and had it completely ready to go in 24hrs.

Not to mention their customer support is absolutely fantastic. I get responses within seconds in their Campfire chat room and hours if I send an email, anytime of day.

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Post by rgrieselhuber »

We were lucky in that Stripe was made available right as we were starting http://www.ginzametrics.com. We never had to deal with the painful issues that we've seen other companies go through with their billing systems.

Their dashboard has also come a long way so that many of the back office management things I thought I was going to have to build have been taken care of. You can create / manage plans, customers and more. It's hard to believe nobody has solved this problem until now but I'm glad that somebody finally did.

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Post by lbotos »

siavosh wrote: post #7

Can someone explain how stripe/square can get around the merchant account requirement?

As far as I understand it, Stripe IS your merchant account. They are similar to a Paypal type service. Does that help?
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