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Really?

• wichert 10y ago
  For payments using direct bank transfers tends to be the standard approach in the EU, certainly for national payments.
  • jamiethompson 10y ago
    Sure, but that's not what we're talking about here. For those kind of payments, in the US they still tend to use cheques. For buying stuff from shops or online, we use cards, just like anywhere else, no?
    • wichert 10y ago
      If you mean you use credit cards for buying stuff online, then no: that is not what we do here. I'm not sure about all of the EU, but at least in NL the majority of online transactions use payments directly with your normal checking account at your bank using a system called iDeal (see https://www.ideal.nl/en/ https://www.ideal.nl/en/ ).
      • scrollaway 10y ago
        Stripe supports iDeal btw.
      • deleted 10y ago
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      • jamiethompson 10y ago
        Crazy. I stand corrected. In the UK we just use credit and debit cards for everything. But then, we're not really representative of the rest of Europe I guess. Even less so nowadays :(