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Re: Stripe Checkout

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Post by reillyse »

So couple of comments on stripe checkout.

2 big issues.

First off, the entering of email addresses and remember me stuff is confusing for my customers. We sign up people for a free trial and take their credit card details before we sign them up as users. Even quite technical people have dropped out of the flow after signing in with stripe thinking "I've given them my email" and so people haven't properly finished the signup process because of this (I'm guessing I can probably get this email, however I'd still need to prompt them for a password).

The second big issue is that the constant changing of the form kept breaking various integration/acceptance tests that I had written. This was pretty frustrating as it seemed that I would get a different box from time to time and my tests would start failing.

I get the desire to A/B test, and the desire to build a network of users who have already given their credit card details (obviously amazing for mobile) but it would be nice for us customers if we had a flag where we could switch it off.

Re: Stripe Checkout

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Post by x13 »

Stripe is pretty sweet, and we're in their beta to receive funds in two days. Any idea how they actually do this? Two is certainly faster that the normal seven days, and I'd love any insight or theories from the HN community.

Re: Stripe Checkout

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Post by analog31 »

Ask HN: I run a tiny home business making widgets. My web page, including order form, is pure HTML.

From what I can tell (looking at page source for the Watsi example), at the very least in order to use Stripe, I have to add some JavaScript to my web page, and of course test it.

Granted, that shouldn't be a big problem for a skilled web developer, but I'm not one.

Am I understanding it right?

Re: Stripe Checkout

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Post by tomjadams »

djtidau wrote: post #127
pc wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any interest in coming by Stripe for lunch/dinner? I'd love to chat about this more and figure out a good way to accomplish this. (I.e., a product you'd be happy integrating that we iterate on over time.) I'm patrick@stripe.com.

It's this kind of proactive engagement and quest for a clear understanding of your users and their goals that has had me waiting so impatiently for Stripe to become available in Australia. We're prelaunch right now, but are about to implement Stripe (what will likely be checkout) shortly, after having already settled with a local payments provider. If you're ever this side of the pond be sure to look me up and we wil…

You can get on the private beta for Australia, details here: https://support.stripe.com/questions/is-stripe-available-in-...

Re: Stripe Checkout

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Post by rdsubhas »

thatthatis wrote: post #56
pc wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[Tl;dr on the below: the changes we make to Checkout are designed to increase our merchants' revenue. If a change doesn't do that, it will be reverted.] The confusion point you cite was our biggest concern in building the "Remember me" functionality. On the one hand, it's clearly good for our merchants* if customers don't have to constantly retype their card details. On the other hand, it'd be bad if we were scaring…

Why isn't it removable? I know things about my customers that you couldn't. This is the single biggest thing that makes me question whether I trust stripe long term. If you're going to make netwok decision like this now, where's your limit? It stops feeling like payments for developers and starts feeling like a "PayPal that hasn't started fucking over their merchants... yet"

Would hiding via CSS work?

Re: Stripe Checkout

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Post by fallenhitokiri »

analog31 wrote: post #183

Ask HN: I run a tiny home business making widgets. My web page, including order form, is pure HTML. From what I can tell (looking at page source for the Watsi example), at the very least in order to use Stripe, I have to add some JavaScript to my web page, and of course test it. Granted, that shouldn't be a big problem for a skilled web developer, but I'm not one. Am I understanding it right?

You need some lines of JavaScript you can basically copy 1:1 from the docs (or if you scroll down the linked page there is also an example). But you also need some backend to handle the actual payment. The widget generates a token which you can use to create customers, charge them etc.

One implementation from Stripes docs https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/guides/flask

Re: Stripe Checkout

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Post by rmccue »

I'm not a fan of the payment input in a separate window, although I'm not sure if that's just a browser quirk on my end. Much preferred the old modal dialog on the same page.

Re: Stripe Checkout

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Post by tlogan »

May I ask a honest question: why did you add email and remember me? It looks something like VCs will suggest. This makes me no to trust Stripe as platform.

Somebody smart said: the incumbent are wounded by the first disruptor and that disruptor eventually becomes the same as the incumbent and, then, both are killed by the real disruptor.

Re: Stripe Checkout

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Post by koa »

ASK:

I love the UX for the stripe checkout. It seems like the integration script creates a full page iframe allowing the widget to have full control over the UX. Is there any guide to building a similar full page iframe widget for other applications?

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