Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expensive Stripe Billing

Post by switch11 » Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 7:16 PM UTC

iffycan wrote: post #223

pc wrote: post #93

(Stripe cofounder.) Hi folks -- as Edwin points out elsewhere in the thread, the article title isn't accurate. (I'll update or delete my comment if it's fixed.) [Update: it was changed. It used to read "Stripe is now charging 0.5% more for recurring charges."] You can happily make recurring charges yourself and no additional fees are incurred. Lots of Stripe customers do this and we don't charge anything extra for it…

When I first signed up with Stripe years ago, it was a breath of fresh air. Stripe did one thing exceedingly well, at an understandable price and took minutes to integrate with. I could sell Stripe to my developer friends (and did, a lot!) in a single sentence: "You can add credit card charging to your site in about 15 minutes for 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction." I can't do that anymore. Stripe is no longer a single-sent…

Post by robertlagrant » Sat, Nov 14, 2020, 7:20 PM UTC

kempbellt wrote: post #316

robertlagrant wrote: post #305

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> It's not your "fault" if you decide to use AWS services and become deeply integrated and they increase their prices by 10% and you can no longer afford their services... It's no one's fault. It's just unfortunate and all you can do is try to work around it, or close the company. It's your fault if you chose lockin. If you don't want to talk about fault, fine, but then don't go on to talk about fault :)

Most people don't choose lock-in. They choose a provider that works for them on the budget and timeline that they have, and they build on that. Expanding to multiple providers isn't always feasible depending on a company's business model and financial state - it takes time and development resources to do so, which can both be very sparse for company with tight profit margins. You have to start somewhere. Unless you h…

Post by barry27 » Sat, Nov 14, 2020, 11:51 PM UTC

parhamn wrote: post #95

Yikes! This thread. First time I’ve seen negative comments on Stripe like this on HN. I guess this is what happens when you grow! You eventually become one of ‘them’, start squeezing for the same reasons the folks in the last cycle did, and the cycle repeats.

Post by timcameron » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 9:15 PM UTC

tallytarik wrote: post #169

Stripe still doesn’t support settling USD payments into a USD bank account on an Australian Stripe account, instead forcing their 2% currency conversion fee on top. So my fee for every subscription charge is increasing to a an even more ridiculous A0.30 + 5.4%. Our users have been asking for PayPal for years, and I had always put off integrating because of how frustrating their API was. But it feels like the Stripe d…

Post by larrik » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 6:47 PM UTC

Alupis wrote: post #128

larrik wrote: post #106

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> Stripe Checkout with Fraud detection - which requires you to use their hosted checkout page Does it? In my experience you can just use their Hosted Fields which are actually really great.

That's not how they pitched it to us - and I asked for clarification multiple times because of how absurd the proposal was for a well established eCommerce site. Sending customers off-domain for a payment is not something we were willing to do for a normal credit card checkout flow. Even "hosted fields" is absurd (and by that I assume you mean an iFrame you embed), and would require redesigning significant portions o…