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This is pretty cool (I'm working on an ecommerce app now). What I'm not clear on is this: Can apps selling relay products get a cut of the sale? What incentive is there for a "product discovery app" (or whatever) to sell other products? Can they define some sort of fee %? UPDATE: Chatted with Stripe on IRC and they clarified that there's currently no way to share sales revenue or let apps define a % commission.
This is pretty cool (I'm working on an ecommerce app now). What I'm not clear on is this: Can apps selling relay products get a cut of the sale? What incentive is there for a "product discovery app" (or whatever) to sell other products? Can they define some sort of fee %? UPDATE: Chatted with Stripe on IRC and they clarified that there's currently no way to share sales revenue or let apps define a % commission.
(Stripe Engineer working on Relay here) Indeed there is no way to do so at the moment. But we have that on our radar and we'd like to construct something that makes sense for apps and sellers. Some questions related to that: How would you see it working? Isn't ads the new affiliation in the app world?
It'll behave as expected if you're familiar with the connect `application_fee`.
I see examples that appear to be a links from a Tweet to a product buying page. Is that what's new?
I'm obviously missing something or maybe just not clever enough to get it... Thanks in advance.
The animations on this page were not well tested. They run at about 0.5 fps in Firefox, but are completely smooth in Chrome.
The animations on this page were not well tested. They run at about 0.5 fps in Firefox, but are completely smooth in Chrome.
Kidding - but in all seriousness it's very hard to test in FireFox. I constantly find that things run super smooth in Chrome and then I test in FireFox and everything dies.
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The challenge for the developer is twofold; 1) Understanding the real time availability of the inventory at the retail partner and 2) Supporting the payment provider of the retailer. In the desktop world this was solved by a straight up affiliate redirect. You arrived at the retailer page and saw your product in a shopping cart or close to it. Of course if inventory was poorly synced you occasionally got an error. Th…
In other words, since the app system doesn't have links like browsers, a whole new system is needed to emulate them.
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The challenge for the developer is twofold; 1) Understanding the real time availability of the inventory at the retail partner and 2) Supporting the payment provider of the retailer. In the desktop world this was solved by a straight up affiliate redirect. You arrived at the retailer page and saw your product in a shopping cart or close to it. Of course if inventory was poorly synced you occasionally got an error. Th…
re Inventory: we want to provide live product availability information to the developer through our API. We encourage app developers to GET latest product info from our API before even rendering a potential Buy Now button. To make that possible we keep product information extra-fresh from big retailers, and even update it on the fly when we see orders failing because the product is out of stock. re Payments/Processor…
Forgive my stupidity but can someone explain why this is so neat? I see examples that appear to be a links from a Tweet to a product buying page. Is that what's new? I'm obviously missing something or maybe just not clever enough to get it... Thanks in advance.
You should see a buy button within the tweet itself allowing you to buy the product directly from the tweet.
Blog post: https://stripe.com/blog/relay This is interesting. How does this work with Apple not allowing purchases unless they go through them? Edit: deleted the part where I confused square for stripe. My bad =/
Apple doesn't allow purchases of digital products that don't go through the In App Purchase system and its 30% tax. Physical goods are just fine (hence the Amazon app where you can buy a book, but not a Kindle book).
We were thinking about writing an iOS app to let the customer manage her users from an iPhone. Currently users extend their subscription by buying more subscription time via an interface.
Could I add an InApp purchase via Stripe at about 2,90% + 30c or because the Windows software is digital (although not consumed by users on iOS, only the user administrator might use iOS) I should then pay Apple a 30%?