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Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Really? What has stripe done in the past to make it feel like they’re being greedy? Besides, nobody is using stripe because it’s the cheapest option.

They stopped refunding payment processing fees on refunds, for one.

Long after other comparable gateways had already stopped refunding those too.

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Update: I've done a 3 minute demo of Payment Links in case anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLNFJNoL9e8

Great video - very well done. It's easy to follow and you explain things in simple terms!

ha, thanks very much! thats cause i dont have the curse of knowledge when it comes to payments haha

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Would be nice if it accepted a customizable dollar amount input so that it could be used for donations, like Paypal's donate button.

We're excited to build donations support via Stripe Payment Links. Drop me a note at jackerman@stripe.com and I'll let you know as soon as it is live.

Could you please consider adding support for custom fields as part of this? For example, to be really useful in the in the UK, donation links would need to ask if the donor is eligible for Gift Aid (which increases donations by 25%). This then needs at least house/flat number and postcode to make a valid Gift Aid application (and some organisations may ask for more address details than that).

With those additional fields it would mean we could post donation links all over the place, and then get donor details out of Stripe for the donations team. Thanks :)

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Off topic: can anyone recommend a Stripe alternative that's a bit less risk averse than stripe is? I'm trying to test the water with a service in the crypto space (it's not about selling/buying cryptocurrency, but about automating some stuff regarding blockchain interaction). I got declined by Stripe based on their terms of service (i.e. don't mention the word blockchain). I'm currently looking into payrexx (however…

I don’t know about their terms of service, but I’ve heard good things about Adyen. They also support more payment methods than Stripe: https://www.adyen.com/payment-methods .

The Paylink solution from Payrexx is very sophisticated and offers more options than almost any other solution. See: https://www.payrexx.com/en/products/paylink/

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That's the promise. However, I recently set up an e-commerce website for my wife. I was actually a bit shocked to discover that whilst Stripe's offerings are like 95% of the way there, that missing 5% means you can't take advantage of said offering at all. 1. I setup Stripe Checkout for subscriptions and thought I was good to go. However, my wife wanted to take sign-ups in anticipation of a set launch date in the fut…

Thank you for all of your feedback, Benjamin. 1. We're hoping to bring the `billing_cycle_anchor` property to Stripe Checkout in the near future. I'll keep you posted and let you know when this launches. 2. Good point, we will take a look into this. 3. We're launching shipping line items in Stripe Checkout's `subscription` mode in the coming months. 4. You're correct, we don't support coupon "stacking" today, and thi…

I'm gonna push in and ask a question of my own :D.

What's currently stopping Stripe from supporting Israeli merchants? There are a ton of Israelis that would jump on it if it was available.

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(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…

I tried this out today and a few things went wrong for me.

First, the link that I was given to send to the other party was a tinyurl.com link. This concerns me because I don't think that Stripe or PayNowLink has control of tinyurl.com. If tinyurl.com is exploited then someone can reroute people to a totally different site.

Second, Privacy.com debit cards didn't work for me. I've reached out to support to see if that's something they can fix. Is that a known issue?

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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.

This is a use case we would have, too - the ability to, for example, create a unique payment link that can be used exactly once or for a specific customer.

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> the bankers often ask for information on the company like website presence of marketing materials. It's not too long ago they would ask for information faxed using company letterhead, as a form of legitimization. The signals they use to vet customers are, again, a decade or two behind what's technologically relevant.

Ironically, I just had a banker ask me for a document on my employer's letterhead today. To which my boss replied "Wtf is letterhead?"

Is your boss your boss by position or an actual owner who deals with HR issues? I cannot fathom how anyone who runs or owns a business has never heard the term letterhead.

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We used this link model in Brazil (custom made) for a client that has a B2B2C platform where vendors (shop owners for a specific industry) use the client's platform as an endless aisle option. We had a challenge for the payment side because: - the payment needed to be to our client and not the vendor (to avoid double taxation); - integrating to the POS machines of more than 100K vendors was unfeasible; - The client w…

How is the link generated? So basically it is a deep link into the clients checkout page? Each product gets its own link? do u have a demo somewhere?

Unfortunately I can't share a demo or docs as this is NDA work we did for the client (and the commerce is still in alpha). But basically you're right. We would create a new checkout page (for the link) that would show the items of the cart (through the Commerce Platform API) and with the credit card fields shown (that would be later sent to the gateway). The link is for the checkout, so you'd have only one per cart/client and it has a timed session.
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