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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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Post by speedplane »

stevoski wrote: post #82
MatekCopatek wrote: post #7

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…

To add to the praise for Stripe, their API docs are a pleasure to use.

I feel like half of the internet copied Stripe's REST API documentation design. They were the first to make them a pleasure to read, now almost everyone's docs are pretty.

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

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Post by tompi »

bastawhiz wrote: post #20
torgard wrote: post #9

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 th…

Engineer on the Connect team here. > 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. We're working on it! Express international support will ease most of the pain in this space (coming soon), and we have talked through ideas for how we can make Elem…

Awesome ! It's currently a painful form to maintain :)

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

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Post by plug »

buf wrote: post #45

I love Stripe and used them for 4 years, but unfortunately have to use Braintree now because of Paypal. Please Stripe, figure out how to integrate with Paypal. And my company is yours again.

Yeah, I'm developing a new product at the moment - I surveyed a bunch of end-users and a LOT of them had PayPal accounts - so Braintree's PayPal integration is a compelling feature to me. That said, here in Europe, Stripe's fees are better than Braintree's, and PayPal's Eurozone fees are quite eye-watering.

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

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Post by plug »

plug wrote: post #103
buf wrote: post #45

I love Stripe and used them for 4 years, but unfortunately have to use Braintree now because of Paypal. Please Stripe, figure out how to integrate with Paypal. And my company is yours again.

Yeah, I'm developing a new product at the moment - I surveyed a bunch of end-users and a LOT of them had PayPal accounts - so Braintree's PayPal integration is a compelling feature to me. That said, here in Europe, Stripe's fees are better than Braintree's, and PayPal's Eurozone fees are quite eye-watering.

That said, I'm Irish and therefore totally biased toward Stripe for that reason alone. As if their stellar tooling and the friendly, truly excellent customer and tech support I've experienced from them so far isn't enough :)

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

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Post by test1235 »

omegavesko wrote: post #78
copperx wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can someone explain how that utm_* stuff got there if the original poster didn't include it? And if he did, where did he get this URL from?

utm_source is set to 'HN', so the original poster did include it, or it would say something else.

OP is Stripe employee, so that'd make sense

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

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Post by nickjj »

lucaspiller wrote: post #56
buf wrote: post #45

I love Stripe and used them for 4 years, but unfortunately have to use Braintree now because of Paypal. Please Stripe, figure out how to integrate with Paypal. And my company is yours again.

For those wondering ‘why PayPal?’ I run a SaaS product using Stripe, and a lot of people have asked if they can pay by PayPal. Although in the West it’s a no-brainer to enter credit card details and be done, in a lot of other countries people don’t feel so comfortable doing so. In some cases it’s actually very foreign, for example Amazon et al in India allow you to pay cash on delivery. PayPal is a good option in the…

People in the west still use Paypal a lot.

Out of thousands of transactions (video courses for developers), about 40% of them are done with Paypal and most of my audience is North America.

Now, I do give the option to use either a CC or Paypal and I'm sure a lot of those 40% would use a CC if Paypal wasn't an option, but it does show a ton of people want to use Paypal.

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

#107

Post by pc86 »

Angostura wrote: post #99
TeMPOraL wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh God, yes! I love the attention to small details they're giving here. It's the kind that I absolutely admire but so rarely see. For example, in the section "Less code. Fewer edge cases." - a) the code "image" scrolls in the direction you scroll, and b) the code is actual code , made to look that way through use of a font (Flow-Circular). They could have went with a nonsense PNG with horizontal lines, but instead, t…

Not to mention the correct use of 'Less' and 'Fewer'. Well done copywriters.

Stripe has some great copy writing for sure, but I don't think correct grammar should be listed as one of the reasons why. :)

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

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Post by hiharryhere »

voiper1 wrote: post #68

They automagically figure out what country the card is from so they can set the numeric/alphanumeric postal code. Can I get that BIN list from somewhere so I can use this even if I'm not submitting to stripe?

This is actually quite annoying. I have some Chase cards from when I lived in the US that now have UK billing addresses and therefore alphanumeric postal codes.

It's not uncommon for these to be unusable online because the form expects me to have a US address/numeric zip code.

I know I'm an edge case, but it's surprising how often sites over-validate form data and exclude all sorts of things like telephone country codes, non-US states, shorter zips etc.

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

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Post by tim333 »

nickjj wrote: post #106
lucaspiller wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those wondering ‘why PayPal?’ I run a SaaS product using Stripe, and a lot of people have asked if they can pay by PayPal. Although in the West it’s a no-brainer to enter credit card details and be done, in a lot of other countries people don’t feel so comfortable doing so. In some cases it’s actually very foreign, for example Amazon et al in India allow you to pay cash on delivery. PayPal is a good option in the…

People in the west still use Paypal a lot. Out of thousands of transactions (video courses for developers), about 40% of them are done with Paypal and most of my audience is North America. Now, I do give the option to use either a CC or Paypal and I'm sure a lot of those 40% would use a CC if Paypal wasn't an option, but it does show a ton of people want to use Paypal.

For me I tend to use Paypal because I'm too lazy to type/paste in my card number, address etc. Paypal is usually one or two clicks.

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

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Post by ksec »

MatekCopatek wrote: post #7

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…

Stripe and Apple. I thought i was the only one noticing these two. Out of all the other Major tech companies. They happens to be the least consumer Web focused and have the best Web page design. ( Stripe isn't really mass consumer facing Web Company, And Apple is more about their Hardware and Software Product rather then Web )

You cant say the same for Yahoo / Oath, Google, Facebook, Amazon or Ebay.

I wish some could share how Apple design and what Apple uses in the Web Stack.

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