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Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by rorykoehler »

pc wrote: post #23

(Stripe cofounder.) While there are lots of antecedents (this is, after all, just a checkout page with a URL), and even though this was substantially inspired by the growth of the no-code ecosystem[0], the thing that's interesting to me about the payment link "space" is that it's a use case that really took off in other markets first -- Nigeria, India, Philippines, etc. I suspect that staying abreast of important new…

I thought about building this on top of Stripe (and after seeing this I am glad I didn't). My use case was to replace cashapp etc for all the musicians doing live stuff on the web. They all need logins which is unnecessary friction if you just want to give someone money.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by criddell »

cyral wrote: post #77
pc wrote: post #23

(Stripe cofounder.) While there are lots of antecedents (this is, after all, just a checkout page with a URL), and even though this was substantially inspired by the growth of the no-code ecosystem[0], the thing that's interesting to me about the payment link "space" is that it's a use case that really took off in other markets first -- Nigeria, India, Philippines, etc. I suspect that staying abreast of important new…

Not related to payment links... but I would love to see Stripe take on handling in app purchases. (basically a webhook and management layer over the terrible native APIs) Companies like RevenueCat are halfway there but have nowhere as nice of an API or dashboard as Stripe. I run a cross platform (web/ios/android) app and would love to do payments all under one platform (Stripe, that is). Apple and Google subscription…

Can you use Stripe in iOS and Android apps? I thought purchases had to go through Apple and Google?

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by jdmichal »

mrtksn wrote: post #24

I quickly looked around but I couldn't get an idea on how Stripe handles the AML and similar complience stuff on this. There have been similar services for years now, one is especially popular among people who sell illegal items and services like IP TV for pirated premium sports channels since they can quickly create per order link that is disguised as selling hamster supplies or drilling heads. Shady transactions ar…

The merchant should have passed through KYC and AML in order to set up a relationship with Stripe. And then transactions for that merchant would typically be monitored for both AML and fraud alerts. I'm not sure whether there's any AML requirements on processors as it relates to the purchaser.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by zanethomas »

pc wrote: post #23

(Stripe cofounder.) While there are lots of antecedents (this is, after all, just a checkout page with a URL), and even though this was substantially inspired by the growth of the no-code ecosystem[0], the thing that's interesting to me about the payment link "space" is that it's a use case that really took off in other markets first -- Nigeria, India, Philippines, etc. I suspect that staying abreast of important new…

Stripe sucks because it 'deplatforms' those it disagrees with.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by edwinwee »

abc11283 wrote: post #139
edwinwee wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In short, yes—confirmation is requried. Here's an example of a payment link: https://buy.stripe.com/dR6cOd9RJ8KS8nufYZ . It's a single link that can be shared with anybody (not unique to one customer). On the Stripe side, nothing is collected from the customer til they click. We've thought a lot about the security side of things—one of the reasons why Payment Links has its own subdomain and the payment page is hosted…

Very cool. One quick thought: tapping the company name doesn’t seem to do anything at the moment. It would be very cool if it would either (1) redirect to the company website or (2) a “store” or directory showing other available Payment Links. Excellent work!

Aha! Thanks. Great ideas.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by AnssiH »

mfkp wrote: post #107
gorgoiler wrote: post #90

1.4% doesn’t sound too bad. I believe chip and pin point of sale is .65% to .85%. What are MasterCard / Visa’s rates for online sales?

Which market are you in? In the US I'm seeing "Starts at 2.9% + 30¢ per successful charge"

In EU Stripe is 1.4% + €0.25 for European cards, 2.9% + €0.25 for foreign cards, https://stripe.com/en-fi/pricing. There have been no recent changes to this.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by edwinwee »

vincentmarle wrote: post #138
pc wrote: post #23

(Stripe cofounder.) While there are lots of antecedents (this is, after all, just a checkout page with a URL), and even though this was substantially inspired by the growth of the no-code ecosystem[0], the thing that's interesting to me about the payment link "space" is that it's a use case that really took off in other markets first -- Nigeria, India, Philippines, etc. I suspect that staying abreast of important new…

> no code required While I love this, is there a way to also programmatically create these links?

Working on it! A Payment Links API is coming very soon.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by joshstrange »

cyral wrote: post #77
pc wrote: post #23

(Stripe cofounder.) While there are lots of antecedents (this is, after all, just a checkout page with a URL), and even though this was substantially inspired by the growth of the no-code ecosystem[0], the thing that's interesting to me about the payment link "space" is that it's a use case that really took off in other markets first -- Nigeria, India, Philippines, etc. I suspect that staying abreast of important new…

Not related to payment links... but I would love to see Stripe take on handling in app purchases. (basically a webhook and management layer over the terrible native APIs) Companies like RevenueCat are halfway there but have nowhere as nice of an API or dashboard as Stripe. I run a cross platform (web/ios/android) app and would love to do payments all under one platform (Stripe, that is). Apple and Google subscription…

If it's IAP for digital items then you can't use Stripe for IAP on iOS/Android, it has to go through the respective store's IAP logic.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by joshstrange »

criddell wrote: post #142
cyral wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not related to payment links... but I would love to see Stripe take on handling in app purchases. (basically a webhook and management layer over the terrible native APIs) Companies like RevenueCat are halfway there but have nowhere as nice of an API or dashboard as Stripe. I run a cross platform (web/ios/android) app and would love to do payments all under one platform (Stripe, that is). Apple and Google subscription…

Can you use Stripe in iOS and Android apps? I thought purchases had to go through Apple and Google?

You can but only for physical goods or a small handful of other uses (person to person and 1-2 other special carve-outs I can't remember).
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