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PayMill, Stripe clone, rolls out silently across Europe

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Re: PayMill, Stripe clone, rolls out silently across Europe

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The activity of a Payment Service Provider is heavily regulated in EU, a license is required - But no mention of this on the site.

Sorry, but what kind of license are you talking about? In order to use Paymill, you just need to have a company registered in one of the countries we are present (31, at the moment).

Where can I see the list of supported countries?

Re: PayMill, Stripe clone, rolls out silently across Europe

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To those mentioning it looks 'half backed' (and wondering whether it works): Samwer brothers' companies are built to flip. From talking to their devs at meetup (not paymill's, but other rocket company), they mention software dev practices leave a lot to be desired. Whatever it takes to get something out of the door. Code quality is not a priority. This makes me reticent, even though I really need a real EU stripe.

Re: PayMill, Stripe clone, rolls out silently across Europe

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This was created by the Samwer brothers, who have an interesting history of cloning sites and flipping them, often to the company they cloned: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/04/features/ins... So, proceed with caution if you decide to use them. (That being said, I wonder if Stripe will just buy them in order to get European payments working?)

Stripe is no available in Europe. I don’t think there is anything wrong with creating something that works here instead of waiting.

Re: PayMill, Stripe clone, rolls out silently across Europe

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I'm using them for a month now and i'm quite happy with the service. Especially compared to the CC gateways we were using before. Their support team is very competent and usually reply within a few minutes. (I had some problems with the Magento Extension but they fixed it and pushed a new version of the extension to their github).

Re: PayMill, Stripe clone, rolls out silently across Europe

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If someone was wondering here are the supported countries: Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Czech Rep ., Turkey, UK, Hungary, Cyprus (Greek part), Israel. (from https://www.paymill.com/en-gb/support-3/worth-knowing/terms-...)

Re: PayMill, Stripe clone, rolls out silently across Europe

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At Spreedlycore we support 40 + payment gateways. (our target audience are developers/applications that need to work with more than one payment gateway) No one's asked us about PayMill yet. It'll be interesting if they do. It worries me when the first two sentences contradict each other: "Paymill enables you to offer credit card payments on your website within a short time. There is no waiting time" Which one is it?…

> No AMEX or Discover which isn't the terrible but worth noting vs other options

For what it's worth, AMEX is uncommon in my EU country (and I say that as someone who uses AMEX) and I wouldn't be surprised if it's just as rare throughout the EU. I have literally never seen a Discover card.

Re: PayMill, Stripe clone, rolls out silently across Europe

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While I applaud any move to bring more payment options in Europe this is really still very german focused and appears only half baked. The English documentation is interesting with lots of muddled terminology and when you start the application process bit's of it are still in german in places. The site also seems to lack error and confirm messages (wondering if this is simply not translated) For those in the UK jumpi…

I'm very sorry for the translation problems. We are working to solve these, but we would appreciate if you could send us an email on support@paymill.com if you find something wrong or ambiguous. But a small correction: we support the local currency of your company. If you are based in the UK, you'll be able to accept GBP. If you need support for other European currencies, you can contact us and we can certainly look…

I'm based in Europe and do pricing in USD because that's where my customers are. Is your originating currency rule a hard and fast one?

Re: PayMill, Stripe clone, rolls out silently across Europe

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post #24

While I applaud any move to bring more payment options in Europe this is really still very german focused and appears only half baked. The English documentation is interesting with lots of muddled terminology and when you start the application process bit's of it are still in german in places. The site also seems to lack error and confirm messages (wondering if this is simply not translated) For those in the UK jumpi…

I'm very sorry for the translation problems. We are working to solve these, but we would appreciate if you could send us an email on support@paymill.com if you find something wrong or ambiguous. But a small correction: we support the local currency of your company. If you are based in the UK, you'll be able to accept GBP. If you need support for other European currencies, you can contact us and we can certainly look…

From the en-gb FAQ: "Which currencies does Paymill accept? Currently, we can only accept €. However we are very hard working to being able to offer you more currencies shortly."

So which is it?

Re: PayMill, Stripe clone, rolls out silently across Europe

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At Spreedlycore we support 40 + payment gateways. (our target audience are developers/applications that need to work with more than one payment gateway) No one's asked us about PayMill yet. It'll be interesting if they do. It worries me when the first two sentences contradict each other: "Paymill enables you to offer credit card payments on your website within a short time. There is no waiting time" Which one is it?…

I didn't know about you, this looks really interesting, I will give it a try, thanks.
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