SlidePay (YC W12) Tries To Be The “Android” of Payments
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SlidePay (YC W12) Tries To Be The “Android” of Payments
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Re: SlidePay (YC W12) Tries To Be The “Android” of Payments
#2sounds like a hell of pivot. best of luck guys!
Re: SlidePay (YC W12) Tries To Be The “Android” of Payments
#3well they sure chose one hell of a great name for this pivot to a service catering to physical cc readers. For that alone I am damn impressed right now. Great branding.
Re: SlidePay (YC W12) Tries To Be The “Android” of Payments
#4How is this different from Stripe?
https://stripe.com/us/help/pricing
It's interesting that the fees are the same for a transaction when a card isn't present 2.9% + 30 cents, but 2.5% + 10 cents per transaction when a card is present.
I wonder what Stripe's response to this will be.
Re: SlidePay (YC W12) Tries To Be The “Android” of Payments
#5How is this different from Stripe? https://stripe.com/us/help/pricing It's interesting that the fees are the same for a transaction when a card isn't present 2.9% + 30 cents, but 2.5% + 10 cents per transaction when a card is present. I wonder what Stripe's response to this will be.
With Stripe you type in the card number. With SlidePay you swipe the card.
Re: SlidePay (YC W12) Tries To Be The “Android” of Payments
#6How is this different from Stripe? https://stripe.com/us/help/pricing It's interesting that the fees are the same for a transaction when a card isn't present 2.9% + 30 cents, but 2.5% + 10 cents per transaction when a card is present. I wonder what Stripe's response to this will be.
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Re: SlidePay (YC W12) Tries To Be The “Android” of Payments
#7How is this different from Stripe? https://stripe.com/us/help/pricing It's interesting that the fees are the same for a transaction when a card isn't present 2.9% + 30 cents, but 2.5% + 10 cents per transaction when a card is present. I wonder what Stripe's response to this will be.
With Stripe you type in the card number. With SlidePay you swipe the card.
does SlidePay give you a slider?
You can slide cards with Stripe, you just need a card slider that you can use on the phone and implement the stripe API with it.
Edit: OK, it appears they give you a slider.
Re: SlidePay (YC W12) Tries To Be The “Android” of Payments
#8I don't get the analogy. SlidePay is the "Android" of payments versus Square as the "Apple" of payments, but the author then goes on to say SlidePay is like a white label version of Square. How is Android a white label version of iOS? How does the analogy help frame this service? Why not just explain what it is and how it's different directly?
Re: SlidePay (YC W12) Tries To Be The “Android” of Payments
#9I don't get the analogy. SlidePay is the "Android" of payments versus Square as the "Apple" of payments, but the author then goes on to say SlidePay is like a white label version of Square. How is Android a white label version of iOS? How does the analogy help frame this service? Why not just explain what it is and how it's different directly?
With the iPhone, everything (device, software, services) are from Apple.
With Android, Google provides parts that different device manufacturers can use to augment their device. Manufacturers can use their own hardware and add whatever software they want to Android.
Not a great analogy, though -- especially since my initial impression was that it only worked on Android while Square was for iOS.
A better analogy would probably be "Stripe's API + Square's Hardware".
Re: SlidePay (YC W12) Tries To Be The “Android” of Payments
#10This is great, I've been searching all over for a white-label Square. Others, like PayAnywhere, have fallen short.