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Just curious: Is it on Stripe's roadmap to provide an inline version of Checkout, IE an option to get a form in an iframe, instead of the modal?

by gkop 11y ago

clintonb 11y ago
What would be the benefit of that?
- gkop 11y ago
  In as much as Stripe allows you to customize the colors of the Checkout modal and add your company logo, Checkout helps create a smooth, trusted, "first-party-ish" experience. The modal behavior however detracts from this quality - it hints to the customer that a third-party is involved. On my most recent project, feedback from users to this effect caused me to go and make my own form using stripe.js instead (pretty easy :) but means giving up the benefit of Checkout's thoroughly thought-out, always-getting-better, broadly-tested UX :( ). I have also observed others asking for an inline version of Checkout in #stripe on freenode. Edit: also I was doing some digging on the subject, and there is an opinion (not condoned by Stripe) that Checkout is "more PCI-compliant" than Stripe.js because the iframe is sourced to Stripe, and Stripe is PCI-audited. Therefore having an inline option for Checkout might please folks wanting the inline UX without giving up the potential upside of Checkout with regard to PCI-compliance.
  - clintonb 11y ago
    I've only used Stripe for about a month. Stripe.js seems like the right solution in this case; but, I'm curious to know how the UX is improving. Aside from the addition of payment providers (e.g. Alipay), the UI/UX doesn't seem to change much. I don't really see anyone making drastic changes to payment forms.
Artemis2 11y ago
Colin Percival has got you covered: http://paymentiframe.com/ http://paymentiframe.com/
- gkop 11y ago
  There is but a small niche between "project is not important enough to care about a modal vs. an iframe" and "project is SO important that I carefully style my own payment form." A dead-easy Stripe-built solution appeals in this small niche; however I'm not going to introduce a third-party dependency in this case - at that point I'll just make my own form - which is what I did :) (Is my memory wrong that Colin's tool predates the launch of Checkout? Perhaps even Colin's tool inspired Checkout to a small extent?)

Just curious: Is it on Stripe's roadmap to provide an inline version of Checkout, IE an option to get a form in an iframe, instead of the modal?

by gkop 11y ago

Just curious: Is it on Stripe's roadmap to provide an inline version of Checkout, IE an option to get a form in an iframe, instead of the modal?

clintonb 11y ago

What would be the benefit of that?

gkop 11y ago
In as much as Stripe allows you to customize the colors of the Checkout modal and add your company logo, Checkout helps create a smooth, trusted, "first-party-ish" experience. The modal behavior however detracts from this quality - it hints to the customer that a third-party is involved. On my most recent project, feedback from users to this effect caused me to go and make my own form using stripe.js instead (pretty easy :) but means giving up the benefit of Checkout's thoroughly thought-out, always-getting-better, broadly-tested UX :( ). I have also observed others asking for an inline version of Checkout in #stripe on freenode. Edit: also I was doing some digging on the subject, and there is an opinion (not condoned by Stripe) that Checkout is "more PCI-compliant" than Stripe.js because the iframe is sourced to Stripe, and Stripe is PCI-audited. Therefore having an inline option for Checkout might please folks wanting the inline UX without giving up the potential upside of Checkout with regard to PCI-compliance.
- clintonb 11y ago
  I've only used Stripe for about a month. Stripe.js seems like the right solution in this case; but, I'm curious to know how the UX is improving. Aside from the addition of payment providers (e.g. Alipay), the UI/UX doesn't seem to change much. I don't really see anyone making drastic changes to payment forms.

Artemis2 11y ago

Colin Percival has got you covered: http://paymentiframe.com/ http://paymentiframe.com/

gkop 11y ago
There is but a small niche between "project is not important enough to care about a modal vs. an iframe" and "project is SO important that I carefully style my own payment form." A dead-easy Stripe-built solution appeals in this small niche; however I'm not going to introduce a third-party dependency in this case - at that point I'll just make my own form - which is what I did :) (Is my memory wrong that Colin's tool predates the launch of Checkout? Perhaps even Colin's tool inspired Checkout to a small extent?)