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Re: Stripe Payment Links

#161

This. is. going. to. be. HUGE! Lots of companies Stripe has replaced because of this. I can see new areas of businesses being launched because of how easy Stripe has made it to be paid online, all with no-code! No more third parties or complex developer integrations or a cut, only get paid with a link with Stripe, That's it! I welcome this!

Wasn't this available for years from other payment providers?

Re: Stripe Payment Links

#162
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…

> And feedback very welcome on our Payment Links product itself! The most useful addition would be another text box (or full form) in the payment link setup to specify sending some custom text to the payer upon payment (by email or on-page or both). For example a "Thank You", but also a "here's the private link to the thing you bought, here are the details, here is the password, here is the timeframe for shipping, he…

Excellent idea, and one we're very excited to build soon. We have an initial prototype of what this may look like; would love your feedback. Drop me a note at jackerman@stripe.com if you'd be up for a quick chat!

Re: Stripe Payment Links

#163
post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks like a much simpler way to create subscriptions. On the back of that connivence will it also support calling webhooks? It would be great to have our backend systems be able to create a user so we can relate a subscription from Stripe with a user without needing to keep querying Stripe for new subscriptions.

I think this is just a normal Checkout/Payment in the API, so there seems to be a webhoook for it.

Confirmed!

Re: Stripe Payment Links

#164
post #117
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…

Please add the possibility to programmatically create links with payment splits so I don't have to waste time re-re-re-re-re-inventing the wheel

Working on it right now! Drop me a note at jackerman@stripe.com if you'd like to try it out.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

#165
post #158

Hate to be a party pooper, but what about Sales Tax handling?

I'm also interested in this, and someone recently shared this with me: https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/taxjar Apparently Stripe's acquisition of TaxJar is meant to expand their offerings in sales tax compliance. From the article: As the latest addition to Stripe’s revenue platform, TaxJar will help businesses automate tasks such as: - Providing accurate sales tax rates at checkout, tied to the exact street address o…

We have a number of exciting tax-related launches with Stripe coming soon. Drop me a note at jackerman@stripe.com and happy to give you early access.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

#166
post #158

Hate to be a party pooper, but what about Sales Tax handling?

I'm also interested in this, and someone recently shared this with me: https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/taxjar Apparently Stripe's acquisition of TaxJar is meant to expand their offerings in sales tax compliance. From the article: As the latest addition to Stripe’s revenue platform, TaxJar will help businesses automate tasks such as: - Providing accurate sales tax rates at checkout, tied to the exact street address o…

This sounds great! We switched to Paddle (https://paddle.com/) so we didn't have to do tax compliance ourselves. Might switch back...

Re: Stripe Payment Links

#167

Does this support limited inventory? e.g. I want to sell only one item for a certain SKU. If two people have the link, only the first person to purchase should succeed, while the 2nd person should get a "This item is no longer available" message instead of being charged.

Not yet, but this is something we're excited to build. Drop me a note at jackerman@stripe.com and happy to tell you more.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

#169

Gumroad? https://twitter.com/shl/status/1397254513627705345

If the YC-adjacent scene stopped funding boring incremental startups maybe we'd dig our way out of the Great Stagnation.

Gumroad is something that should be a 0% fee opensource developer component, not an entire company.

The YC Facebook feed has been depressing lately: $6M funding for one of those links-on-a-page startups, $50M funding for a startup that wants to sell Pokemon cards on a livestream. The VCs are fuelling stagnation by funding these boring inconsequential projects.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

#170
post #166
post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm also interested in this, and someone recently shared this with me: https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/taxjar Apparently Stripe's acquisition of TaxJar is meant to expand their offerings in sales tax compliance. From the article: As the latest addition to Stripe’s revenue platform, TaxJar will help businesses automate tasks such as: - Providing accurate sales tax rates at checkout, tied to the exact street address o…

This sounds great! We switched to Paddle ( https://paddle.com/ ) so we didn't have to do tax compliance ourselves. Might switch back...

Drop me a note at jackerman@stripe.com and happy to give you a sneak peak about some cool taxes-related features we're launching very soon.
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