A similar idea, but for periodic donations. Sites offer "subscription links" that get a share of your fixed donation budget per month, meaning that if you designate 50 usd per month for donations, all those you're donating to will have to split 50 usd. In addition to that, stripe lets you kick out any subscription from the list. Stripe can also aggregate these micropayments to reduce visa/ACH/whatever fees.
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#92This 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
Having a huge market player release a feature that seems to overlap with your business can seem like bad news, but hearken! it's not all downside. The case study here is Facebook introducing the ability to schedule posts in Facebook directly, theoretically hurting Buffer et al. Take a look at Buffer's publicly-available revenue data [1]. Can you see when this change occurred? In general, by lowering the barriers to e…
No I don't see when the revenue got a hit? Pretty sure scheduling post has been around for a couple of years at this point?
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#93This. is. going. to. be. HUGE! Lots of companies Stripe has replaced because of this. I can see new areas of businesses being launched because of how easy Stripe has made it to be paid online, all with no-code! No more third parties or complex developer integrations or a cut, only get paid with a link with Stripe, That's it! I welcome this!
That's the promise. However, I recently set up an e-commerce website for my wife. I was actually a bit shocked to discover that whilst Stripe's offerings are like 95% of the way there, that missing 5% means you can't take advantage of said offering at all. 1. I setup Stripe Checkout for subscriptions and thought I was good to go. However, my wife wanted to take sign-ups in anticipation of a set launch date in the fut…
Thank you for all of your feedback, Benjamin.
1. We're hoping to bring the `billing_cycle_anchor` property to Stripe Checkout in the near future. I'll keep you posted and let you know when this launches.
2. Good point, we will take a look into this.
3. We're launching shipping line items in Stripe Checkout's `subscription` mode in the coming months.
4. You're correct, we don't support coupon "stacking" today, and this is something we're excited to eventually support. Will keep you posted and let you know when this launches.
Sorry there isn't anything immediately actionable for you right now, but simply, we are working on all of this! Please feel free to drop me a note at jackerman@stripe.com – happy to chat further.
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#94I quickly looked around but I couldn't get an idea on how Stripe handles the AML and similar complience stuff on this. There have been similar services for years now, one is especially popular among people who sell illegal items and services like IP TV for pirated premium sports channels since they can quickly create per order link that is disguised as selling hamster supplies or drilling heads. Shady transactions ar…
The key thing to understand is the difference between the actual law, individual company's implementation of the actual law, individual company's policies that have nothing to do with the law and are just a shitty inconvenient business practice, and individual company's representatives that don't know the difference between any of that and just say any inconvenience or transaction limit is because of "anti money laun…
> Compliance for a payment processor has nothing to do with detecting fraud and is pretty much just the OFAC list.
I suspect that it's not that simple. I did some work for people in compliance, I have some idea on the work they do and it's not simply department of people simply checking against the OFAC list.
I'm a bit familiar with banks and not with money processors though. I have seen the bank side of the relationship and they can be very nervous when working with payment processors that bring bad money(scammers, pyramid schemes, drug money, terrorism financing etc).
I like the firewall concept but it feels incomplete. Stripe must be doing a lot of interesting work to not be the shady company that the banks don't like working with.
If you have more concrete knowledge on the topic, what is the hard part of running money transaction service, I.E. money processor? Atomic book keeping is not the challenge keeping every kid on the block from starting a money processor business, I would guess.
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#95I just wish I could use regular Stripe. :'(
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#96(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…
I suppose the danger to this is minimized but will stripe always require an affirmative action confirming the transaction on the destination link? I can see some issues related to link unfurling and pre-fetching activating the link before the user intends to interact with it along with malicious sites that inject JS to automatically follow the link. I'm curious if you have analytics collection on the first use case s…
The link itself is global, not local to a transaction. So I can have the same link posted on my Github repo to support development or in my HN bio to buy me a coffee. That link then generates a checkout session when you visit it, and if the payment is actually made, then I see a payment entry in my dashboard. But the link is just a common global initiator.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Slightly tangential, but when you localize a product for India, do not automatically translate it to Hindi. Only 38% people of India has Hindi as their mother-tongue. There is strong anti-Hindi-imposition sentiment in many places of India. Just because someone's geolocation is set to India, don't automatically translate it to Hindi. It irks many.
What would the compromise be?
Show a pop-up or pop-up like asking if they want to switch to an Indian language.
I never switch to another language other than English.
It is highly advisable that companies translate to eight most common Indian languages. Or even the top five [0].
People speaking all major languages of India are huge potential markets for companies. Google offers search in nine Indian languages. Amazon provides customer services in five languages.
For some services, you should not even want to translate to languages other than English. India has one of the largest English speaking populace of the world- 2nd only after the US [1].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of....
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...
Re: Stripe Payment Links
#98(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…
I suppose the danger to this is minimized but will stripe always require an affirmative action confirming the transaction on the destination link? I can see some issues related to link unfurling and pre-fetching activating the link before the user intends to interact with it along with malicious sites that inject JS to automatically follow the link. I'm curious if you have analytics collection on the first use case s…
In short, yes—confirmation is requried.
Here's an example of a payment link: https://buy.stripe.com/dR6cOd9RJ8KS8nufYZ. It's a single link that can be shared with anybody (not unique to one customer).
On the Stripe side, nothing is collected from the customer til they click.
We've thought a lot about the security side of things—one of the reasons why Payment Links has its own subdomain and the payment page is hosted by Stripe.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey there Patrick, congrats on this launch and Stripe's success thus far. As to your reflections, I'm wondering how Stripe ingests these various emerging patterns around the world (especially as you expand to unfamiliar territory) and prioritize bringing them into your products? IOW: if N trends at various stages of the adoption cycle are happening 7K miles away, how do you think about placing different bets on each,…
No wonderfully structured answer, I'm afraid. We do now have engineering teams in Japan, Singapore, India, Ireland, Mexico, Nigeria (via Paystack), and elsewhere, and it helps a lot to have people "on the ground" who really get what's going on. Ultimately, we want to identify the patterns that should be globally popular but aren't yet. To do that, though, there's ultimately a lot of subjective judgment required.
It'd be nice to know that a feature/product is widely used in Japan, say, so if you're in the US and considering implementing Stripe's version you can be more assured that it won't disappear suddenly.
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#100(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. T…
Isn't it simpler to just have a single static web page, to show that presence? Even if it's just for western contacts such as banks.