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Re: Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

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Post by vertis »

barrydahlberg wrote: post #227
markbao wrote: post #5

Stripe pretty much takes payment processing kicking and screaming into 2011. Merchant accounts are a serious drag. I've opened a few and they've been nothing but headaches (especially if you're young—nobody trusts you.) Couple that with getting a gateway account, dealing with credit checks, monthly fees, monthly minimums, slow people in the payments industry, PCI compliance... Stripe takes payments and put them behin…

I would love to see someone drag it kicking and screaming outside of the US. :(

Providing international support is probably in the 'too hard' basket.

Re: Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

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Post by ericd »

boucher wrote: post #240
neovive wrote: post #235

Stripe looks great and is definitely at the top of my list. Does anyone know what name shows up on the customers statement? Is it customizable to something that includes your company name (e.g. Stripe your_name_here)?

Stripe doesn't appear at all. You have full control over what appears on the statement.

These little touches are awesome. With Auth.net it seems I ran into a character limit with my (not very long) company name, and the beginning was truncated - TopHat became Phat... I tried to get it changed once upon a time, but I gave up due to the pain.

The old 1 month payout schedule was one of the few things holding me back from switching, but now that's it's more frequent, count me in!

One question, can one charge from multiple URLs with a single account?

Re: Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

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Post by guard-of-terra »

LiveTheDream wrote: post #172
lekevicius wrote: post #104

US only. Well, I kind of knew it before even hitting FAQ. A bit of a rant here, but it's crazily difficult to do so many interesting things when you don't live in top-20 country (Lithuania here) Stripe? Nope. BrainTree? Nope. Recurly? Nope. Something else... Likely, Nope. And so, the only way to get paid is to deal with some of the most expensive and oldest gateways and merchant accounts. Oh, and: Hulu? Nope. iTunes?…

Does this mean you have a huge opportunity to be the Stripe (or Braintree/Recurly/Hulu etc) of Lithuania?

That's the problem with tiny countries:

- Global market players don't come because they don't think the effort would pay for itself.

- The country is too tiny to make cloning business models feasible.

In Europe, there are a lot of tiny countries: 3 baltic states, 3 transcaucasian states, moldavia, some former yugoslavian states. And then you have countries that are just small and not very rich, so they are always late to any party: most of western europe, greece perhaps. Even some core european countries might see this effect (for example, where does Amazon work?)

And trying to bootstrap in ten mostly unrelated countries at once would lead to failure. And if you succeed, global players might come and eat your lunch.

It's an interesting effect where a small country suffers a noticeable drop in quality of online life due to many services being unavailable.

Re: Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

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Post by mschen »

boucher wrote: post #225
mschen wrote: post #222

Not to take away from the product, which I think is pretty awesome, but I do foresee a rather sticky issue should the company blow up somewhere down the line; the logo is rather reminiscent of that of my former employer Deutsche Bank's, and I wouldn't put it past the multinational financial behemoth to take notice, with potential financial consequences, especially as Stripe pushes its product internationally. For ref…

Stripe does not currently have a logo, other than the word Stripe.

Sorry about that, I was basing my comment off the Crunchbase profile (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/stripe) and assumed that was the logo.

Re: Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

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Post by diminish »

vertis wrote: post #261
barrydahlberg wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would love to see someone drag it kicking and screaming outside of the US. :(

Providing international support is probably in the 'too hard' basket.

I wish there were a trustworthy global payment operator a la Stripe.

Re: Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

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Post by rickmb »

guard-of-terra wrote: post #265
LiveTheDream wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does this mean you have a huge opportunity to be the Stripe (or Braintree/Recurly/Hulu etc) of Lithuania?

That's the problem with tiny countries: - Global market players don't come because they don't think the effort would pay for itself. - The country is too tiny to make cloning business models feasible. In Europe, there are a lot of tiny countries: 3 baltic states, 3 transcaucasian states, moldavia, some former yugoslavian states. And then you have countries that are just small and not very rich, so they are always lat…

You're overstating the issue. There's only one thing that keeps most services from being available: the insane antiquated and utterly corrupt copyright laws. Without that, there would be no issue.

Specific stuff like online payments very much depend on local context, and in many countries they barely even have the problem Stripe is trying to solve for the US market.

Re: Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

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Post by mariust »

Hope you go international as soon as possible there is a lot of good potential around this. I just hate the way paypal has recurring billing setup, the documentation is not 100% completed in paypal and I had to loose a couple of hours to ge around an error that was saying basically: " there are 1000 things that could go wrong ", the problem is that I was missing a field that I had to submit to them, the docs war not saying anything about it, but with the help of good old Google. Go stripe
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