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Stripe Payment Links
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe for the very small sellers, yes. But Shopify will be fine without them. They provide a lot of value to medium size sellers with a lot of turn over, through their app marketplace and integrations.
And they can actually give you lower rates than 2.9% if you pay a higher subscription fee. Stripe won't drop below 2.9% unless you do $1M+ and even then it's not a guarantee.
They provide me with 1.4% + $0.24 for European cards which is a whole lot less than even national banks offer me...
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#2132.9% + $.30 is insane. I can’t believe such a simple product is apparently worth so much.
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#214Awesome feature. The first thing that comes to mind for me is fraud. Most obviously, what guarantees are in place that when I go to one of these links, that the seller company is who they say they are? I assume Stripe audits their customers and, for example, reviews the seller logo that's displayed to make sure it isn't misleading. But also, does Stripe give the seller any analytics about who (or how often) people ar…
When a seller creates a Stripe account to use Payment Links, they go through the same review processes (and face the same stringent regulations from card networks and banks) as any seller who creates a Stripe account to integrate our Payments API directly with their website. They will be rejected by Stripe if they violate our terms of service (i.e., if they're fraudulent).
Sellers will be able to see if the buying process is started when a payment link is clicked: either through the Stripe Dashboard or through the API by listening for `payment_intent.created`.
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suppose the danger to this is minimized but will stripe always require an affirmative action confirming the transaction on the destination link? I can see some issues related to link unfurling and pre-fetching activating the link before the user intends to interact with it along with malicious sites that inject JS to automatically follow the link. I'm curious if you have analytics collection on the first use case s…
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…
I don’t know what I expected but I guess I have a new sticker for my MacBook now.
Really nice and clean process though.
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#216Gumroad? 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 fuelli…
Just look at the Show HN - YC batch companies, none of them are doing anything remotely groundbreaking or risky. A ton of them are solving minor workflow problems trying to skim shit off the top.
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#217(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…
Super sleek! A minor feedback for the marketing page. I’m an English speaker currently in Mexico City. The webpage first opened in Spanish based on my location. It only took a few seconds to figure that I could change the language just above the footer, but my UI recommendation would be to put the location/language switcher next to the upper right sandwich (I’m on mobile) in a circle with the flag of my default count…
This reminds me of the recent uber post that talked about how uber SEEMS simple because it is just a few screens but it has to handle thousands of possible international language and location permutations. And keep the install under 100MB or whatever the app store not over-wifi limit is nowadays.
How does uber default the language for you? They've got the advantage of your registration so probably easier...
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#218Gumroad? https://twitter.com/shl/status/1397254513627705345
Gumroad is in for a bit of direct competition by a behemoth. I'm sure they won't have good sleep in the coming months.
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#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
And you're posting it here because...why? If you think there's a legal issue, this, obviously, isn't the forum. If you want to tell people "I had this idea first!" this also isn't the forum; you're either wrong, or are pointing to the wrong thing (patents aren't particular readable or understandable); show us the thing you made.
Because I am excited that this idea got turned into a viable product. And what is wrong with sharing the excitement with my fellow nerds including the fact that I had this idea first? It is all about execution and kudos to stripe for taking this idea forward and turning into a viable product.
Gumroad had this since 2011, 5 years before you filed your patent.
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#220Gumroad? https://twitter.com/shl/status/1397254513627705345
Aren’t these quite different things with similar copy?
Gumroad seems to me to offer a way to eg sell copies of your pdf. This stripe service seems to be a way to make a link saying “that will be $79.82 please” and collect payment (and maybe some other details).
I.e. Gumroad provides some online store for a single digital product and stripe offer a way to collect money for anything but they don’t handle actually giving you the thing. Obviously there is some overlap but the pitch is different.
Edit: maybe I’m actually wrong and these are really similar. The thing I described above is more like an invoice for which this maybe isn’t suited (pay an invoice once/periodically but these links may be hit many times). So I’m not really sure now