i had horrible experiences with an "industry standard and cheaper provider" i once spend several hours in a cusomer care help center of my payment provider to

i had horrible experiences with an "industry standard and cheaper provider" i once spend several hours in a cusomer care help center of my payment provider to figure out why and how they broke our checkout. this was in the middle of the night obviously because of timezones and the people on the other end where non-technical. not saying this couldnt happen w/ stripe or that my payment provider was the best alternative (it was before stripe existed and was a european provider) but still… i agree w/ you that payment providers are more than JSON API but from my perception stripe does a good job in those areas as well