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Re: Stripe App Marketplace

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Post by lmeyerov »

systemvoltage wrote: post #54
antaviana wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pricing works best when aligning with value instead of costs. In general you should also try to align your pricing with value for better margins (especially if you are have a monopoly condition). The rationale is that Stripe believe that a small percentage will align better with customer acceptance of pricing than a flat fee per invoice, which allows them to capture more dollars from the relationship.

I firmly believe that transaction fees (incl invoices, etc) should be fundamentally a constant flat fee. Whoever builds a competitor to Stripe will blow everyone away. The cost of transaction is the same. Customers are being robbed in day light with % based transaction fees since the dawn of time. This entire industry is begging for disruption.

Until you want value-based fraud prevention layers like insurance. Keeping fixed fee would knock that out of alignment. But perhaps your point would be that should be some sort of opt-in higher SLA tier so the transaction layer fee is low but the insurance etc. add-on layers are variable.

Re: Stripe App Marketplace

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Post by upupandup »

ctvo wrote: post #61
upupandup wrote: post #44

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Do you work for YC? Why do you care so much?

No, I don't work for YC. I do get value from this site and would prefer it not be a cesspool of ignorant conspiracy theories when possible.

so its a conspiracy that Docusign is down 80% from ATH as are many YC backed IPO stocks?

Just open up a chart and have a go at the numerous tickers YC is involved with. Are those stocks that you would trust your life savings with and that its a conspiracy that they are struggling with potential problems to capital and liquidity?

If you are going to simp for YC at least have skin in the game

Re: Stripe App Marketplace

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Post by FpUser »

boringg wrote: post #50
DantesKite wrote: post #42

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If history is any indicator, Stripe can always Sherlock the service and build a better native feature.

It's almost like any successful developer needs to develop an app thats popular but not that popular and verging on slightly more difficult so that the moat holder (in this case Stripe) doesn't want to build it themselves. Alternatively make something that catches fire really quickly and sell very quickly before they can build it themself.

Welcome to capitalism. These are shark infested waters. Either be a shark or learn how to swim safely ;)

Re: Stripe App Marketplace

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Post by notyourday »

onphonenow wrote: post #6

We do relatively lower volume of higher value ACH transactions (ie, 20K/transaction). What's interesting is strip invoicing is pretty uncompetitive here. Fee for sending one invoice is $100/invoice. For every 100 invoices you are spending $10,000. OUCH!!! In other words, if someone was allowed to do an invoicing app in this marketplace it might do ok for a group out there. A target would be folks doing ACH payments (…

Startup: (n) a weird entity that would risk $20/k customer because $100 invoice is too much.

Re: Stripe App Marketplace

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Post by cyral »

jeiting wrote: post #68
cyral wrote: post #60

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Hi, I have two tickets open which are really causing a lot of issues for us: - Expiration webhooks are not always sent, so customers keep their entitlement way after they should: Ticket 13919 (although it's been spread across a few as it must close them after a while or something) - A much more urgent issue I opened a couple weeks ago: Customers that cancel and then re-subscribe for a trial at some point in the futur…

Hi, RevenueCat CEO here. Thanks for sharing honestly. I dug into both tickets. A bunch of failures both in product and process on our part. Going to dig in more.

Thanks for taking a look, I believe I sent you an email about the first one actually since it had been months without any updates. They did get on it and released a fix soon after, but last I heard it was rolled back and then (maybe?) re-applied. Unfortunately it is still happening, but the second issue is much more urgent for us right now.

Re: Stripe App Marketplace

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Post by kasey_junk »

systemvoltage wrote: post #54
antaviana wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pricing works best when aligning with value instead of costs. In general you should also try to align your pricing with value for better margins (especially if you are have a monopoly condition). The rationale is that Stripe believe that a small percentage will align better with customer acceptance of pricing than a flat fee per invoice, which allows them to capture more dollars from the relationship.

I firmly believe that transaction fees (incl invoices, etc) should be fundamentally a constant flat fee. Whoever builds a competitor to Stripe will blow everyone away. The cost of transaction is the same. Customers are being robbed in day light with % based transaction fees since the dawn of time. This entire industry is begging for disruption.

Transaction costs are not the same price per transaction. The major costs for most transactions are the risks (credit, irr, fx etc) associated with it not the fixed costs of infrastructure.

Those costs go up with the value of the transaction.

Re: Stripe App Marketplace

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Post by jeiting »

cyral wrote: post #77
jeiting wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, RevenueCat CEO here. Thanks for sharing honestly. I dug into both tickets. A bunch of failures both in product and process on our part. Going to dig in more.

Thanks for taking a look, I believe I sent you an email about the first one actually since it had been months without any updates. They did get on it and released a fix soon after, but last I heard it was rolled back and then (maybe?) re-applied. Unfortunately it is still happening, but the second issue is much more urgent for us right now.

Ah! Right, yeah that was me kicking it back to the top of the stack. IMO, these core issues are more important than almost anything else we do, but I think we aren't as good as we should be as making sure we are resourcing them over the new and shiny things.

I've made CEO-noise again and hopefully we can keep pushing on these two.

Re: Stripe App Marketplace

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Post by cschep »

upupandup wrote: post #73
ctvo wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, I don't work for YC. I do get value from this site and would prefer it not be a cesspool of ignorant conspiracy theories when possible.

so its a conspiracy that Docusign is down 80% from ATH as are many YC backed IPO stocks? Just open up a chart and have a go at the numerous tickers YC is involved with. Are those stocks that you would trust your life savings with and that its a conspiracy that they are struggling with potential problems to capital and liquidity? If you are going to simp for YC at least have skin in the game

"...this seems like something to send more paying customers to its network of YC backed businesses."

Is a baseless conspiracy. Back it up with facts! If you can, we're all here to listen. Accusing someone of being a simp because they think your argument is baseless and weak is not a great way to strengthen your argument.

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