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Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by vmception »

pc wrote: post #23

(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…

Hey there, I'm an American in the US I've done business over chat apps for several years. Mostly being around Chinese, Nigerian, Indian, Phillipine and Malaysian crowds on those apps. You just have to listen, the trend has been clear but in the US people derive clout from pretty irrelevant things, such as a domain name, domain name information, and people with ideas think they need SEO and other marketing gimmicks.

The biggest trick is the banks. When using fiat and opening a bank account for an incorporated business, the bankers often ask for information on the company like website presence of marketing materials.

For the past few years I've been able to point to articles about commerce in Asia being chat app based, to get past that. Bankers don't actually care, but you do need to know how to make them not begin to care.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by tvaughan »

pc wrote: post #41
siruva07 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Super sleek! A minor feedback for the marketing page. I’m an English speaker currently in Mexico City. The webpage first opened in Spanish based on my location. It only took a few seconds to figure that I could change the language just above the footer, but my UI recommendation would be to put the location/language switcher next to the upper right sandwich (I’m on mobile) in a circle with the flag of my default count…

Good feedback -- thanks. We've long struggled to find the right balance between "convenient/automatically correct" and "non-confusing" in site localization.

Born and raised in California, have lived abroad the past 10 years in various locations. The language I always want a website displayed in is the language my browser says I want it displayed in. Sure, make the content local, e.g. assume Chilean pesos if I'm in Chile, but please simply follow Accept-Language for language selection.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by pc »

tvaughan wrote: post #62
pc wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good feedback -- thanks. We've long struggled to find the right balance between "convenient/automatically correct" and "non-confusing" in site localization.

Born and raised in California, have lived abroad the past 10 years in various locations. The language I always want a website displayed in is the language my browser says I want it displayed in. Sure, make the content local, e.g. assume Chilean pesos if I'm in Chile, but please simply follow Accept-Language for language selection.

That is approximately what we do. (And then we remember any explicit selection that's made.)

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by thebean11 »

throxwaway98123 wrote: post #25
dangrossman wrote: post #20

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Shopify's moat is its ecosystem of developers and apps, for many of the same reasons WordPress still powers 39.5% of all websites in 2021. Shop Pay also provides many of the same benefits of Stripe -- global one-click payment across all their stores and more. I run into Shopify sites while shopping all the time and am always pleasantly surprised that I don't have to fill out anything to check out, it already knows me…

Wordpress is a free product. Shopify is not. Shopify built a good ecom cms and they’ll be right for some companies, but they’ve also cornered themselves as that company that makes ecom software. Remember Shopify POS? Me either. Anyways, consumer trends change. The way people buy online will change. There’s a future where ecom websites are basically the back catalogue of the future.

Shopify is $29 per month on the cheapest plan. That's not going to make or break anyone's online store.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by msencenb »

edwinwee wrote: post #54
msencenb wrote: post #51

Are we able to create these via the API (specifically through Connect)? I'd love to dig a bit deeper into the docs on integrating with this, but haven't managed to find them yet.

Not today, but a Payment Links API is coming soon. (Will shoot an email if you'd like to test it.)

That would be awesome, thank you!

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by Rafert »

throxwaway98123 wrote: post #6

This is absolutely the worst news for Shopify. A very large portion of SMBs want to sell a handful of things without the overhead of maintaining and paying over the top for a e-commerce cms. This plus social media will be a huge win for a lot of businesses

Shopify has had the Buy Button for years. Combine with the Lite plan for $9 a month (https://www.shopify.ca/lite) and room to grow if the business takes off without replatforming.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by jackerman »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #10

I love watching Stripe going upmarket with e-comm streamlining offerings (links, subscriptions), the foresight shows (payment commodification eventually, Value Add Is The Way).

Thank you for the kind words! We're always working to improve our products; feedback welcome!

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by vincentkriek »

grenoire wrote: post #4

Mollie has been providing this service under the Plink [1] brand name for quite a while, I was looking for something to get my clients onboard with Stripe without using Billing (main reason being Mollie having difficulty serving corporate US cards from time to time). Nice move, simple product, extremely useful! [1] https://useplink.com/en/

For context, in the Netherlands (where Mollie was founded) sending payment requests by text took off when one bank set up a service geared for consumers that provided this (Tikkie [1]). Mobile payments were common place before this, so customers were already used to this.

Taking this to the next level, by having businesses use this is a great and logical step.

[1] https://www.abnamro.nl/en/personal/internet-and-mobile/apps/...

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