I'm curious what method they use for identifying the buyers as Chinese.
They turn on the webcam and look into their soul. Or IP address + locale information like everyone else.
That's not an exclusive or.
Stripe: Alipay support
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Re: Stripe: Alipay support
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you asking if you can bring your own payment gateway for use with Stripe? (Sorry, I was thrown off by the payment form tutorial reference.)
No, just whether or not you'd implement Alipay into your API in a manner that would allow for us to handle the frontend UI ourselves (letting our users chose between Alipay or credit card).
We felt that Checkout was the best integration point because it let us do some nice dynamic authentication logic instead of Alipay's usual redirect-based flow. Given that subtleties involved, Alipay's constraints, and the fact that it'll no doubt need to evolve in the future (as compared to the static standardization of credit cards), I think it'd be pretty tough to expose it via a straight API.
Re: Stripe: Alipay support
#33As a Canadian, I'm most interested in when Stripe will start supporting our Interac debit cards. At that point, from my point of view, it'll have taken over the world. :)
Re: Stripe: Alipay support
#34If you guys would do this exact same thing for PayPal, I would be so happy.
We'd be very happy to support PayPal in the same way. If any PayPal folks are reading, I'm patrick@stripe.com :-).
Please make that happen! If I never have to deal with the PayPal API again I would be very happy.
Re: Stripe: Alipay support
#35As a Canadian, I'm most interested in when Stripe will start supporting our Interac debit cards. At that point, from my point of view, it'll have taken over the world. :)
It'd be nice, but you could fit 40 Canadas into China (population-wise), and most of us already have credit cards due to our proximity with the US. It's sad but completely rational that so many American services don't bother with us as a country.
Re: Stripe: Alipay support
#36As a Canadian, I'm most interested in when Stripe will start supporting our Interac debit cards. At that point, from my point of view, it'll have taken over the world. :)
(I'm Canadian and work at Stripe)
How often do you actually buy things online with interac? I think I've maybe done it once, and the redirect-to-the-bank flow is pretty awkward. My sense is that this isn't ever a barrier to conversion for Canadians (except maybe for very large purchases?), but I'd be curious to hear otherwise.
Re: Stripe: Alipay support
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not for now. Part of the reason Alipay was comfortable with this new flow is because it's served as part of Checkout. If we were to provide Checkout-less APIs, we'd probably have to go back to the old redirect model, which (among other things) just doesn't work well on mobile. I expect we'll always offer APIs for "standardized" instruments, though (ACH, Bitcoin, cards, etc.).
Just to be clear, are you saying that this new payment method will only be supported (at least for now) for those with a checkout.js integration, not those using stripe.js and their own front-end/branding? Obvious feature request #1: Support it via stripe.js and the usual APIs as soon as possible. Obvious feature request #2: In the meantime, provide a version of checkout.js that is (a) stable and (b) simplified to su…
(I work at Stripe)
Can you say more about "(a) stable"? If you mean that you've had problems with robustness or availability, I'd love to hear about that, because in general we believe it's been very good on those fronts.
If you mean that it the UI changes from time to time, then (for better or worse), that's a fundamental property of Checkout: we are continually iterating and optimizing and adding new features (like Alipay!). We do understand that it's not for everyone, but a lot of people use it for exactly that reason.
Re: Stripe: Alipay support
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not for now. Part of the reason Alipay was comfortable with this new flow is because it's served as part of Checkout. If we were to provide Checkout-less APIs, we'd probably have to go back to the old redirect model, which (among other things) just doesn't work well on mobile. I expect we'll always offer APIs for "standardized" instruments, though (ACH, Bitcoin, cards, etc.).
Just to be clear, are you saying that this new payment method will only be supported (at least for now) for those with a checkout.js integration, not those using stripe.js and their own front-end/branding? Obvious feature request #1: Support it via stripe.js and the usual APIs as soon as possible. Obvious feature request #2: In the meantime, provide a version of checkout.js that is (a) stable and (b) simplified to su…
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Re: Stripe: Alipay support
#39Now we just need to see Stripe come to the other countries, which doesn't yet have access to them (I have Denmark in mind).
Re: Stripe: Alipay support
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
How much permission do you need from paypal to do this? I suppose the main barrier is how annoying their UI is? And your ability to get a share of the interchange?
Tough to say. I know that Recurly has gone the approach of supporting any number of gateways ( http://recurly.com/gateways/ ). Is there a technical limitation of Stripe that doesn't allow for this?
The stripe API is incompatible with Paypal's, you can't make arbitrary charges on paypal's API.