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Great list! Using a few of those myself If i can be cheeky I'd love an intro to the guys at Stripe, think it was a fair few months ago I registered my email fo

Great list! Using a few of those myself If i can be cheeky I'd love an intro to the guys at Stripe, think it was a fair few months ago I registered my email for their Beta and would love to implement it for my startup.

krmmalik 15y ago
i'd also be inrerested in more information on Stripe
romland 15y ago
sigh I wish I had anything good to say to accompany this, but I came here to be as cheeky. If it's as good as I hear, then I could use it ... yesterday. Implementing payment systems as we speak!
- Anthony_qraving 15y ago
  hahah...About 23 hours to late for me too, would have loved to known about stripe yesterday before I started fighting with paypal and IPN (thanks relix)
saikat 15y ago
Hey (Saikat from Stripe) -- not cheeky at all, but certainly flattering. Sorry we've been kind of quiet (we do read Hacker News, though). We're just working hard to implement the feedback we've been getting from our existing users, and we want to make sure our product scales well and gets better as new people use it. Here's a question: any chance you would be interested in having us watch you integrate Stripe? We've been doing this lately to try to make sure our first-run experience is really good. Send me an e-mail (saikat@stripe.com) either way.
- s00pcan 15y ago
  Stripe was something on the article I hadn't heard of before. It just seems so logical for cardholder information to go directly from the customer to the payment processor using javascript that I wonder why it hasn't been done before and what you're doing differently. Can you explain?
  - kolektiv 15y ago
    Well, hosted payment is not a new thing at all - so you iframe or link to a page you don't host which the customer uses - thus ensuring that card details don't hit your servers and don't give you a PCI surface. This is a fairly logical extension, I would guess that the reason it hasn't caught on more is because a JS requirement has typically been a red flag in e-commerce - 3% of users not being able to pay you once they got to that point of a funnel could be seen as disaster. Interesting, because we're looking at mandating JS in our new developments (background: company I work for does a lot of high end e-commerce - we're specialists). In theory it's a good idea (that side of it at least) but I don't know how security perception and customer acceptance rates will go.
    - s00pcan 15y ago
      Oh, of course. I completely forgot that there are some crazy people out there who browse without javascript. I was just jumping at the idea of reducing PCI compliance issues - I've had to deal with them and it's a huge project.
- mcdowall 15y ago
  Hey Saikat, Absolutely, could do it over some screen sharing or something, email on the way.
- robflynn 15y ago
  I just wanted to take a moment to say that Stripe has been a joy to use thus far. I haven't switched billing live yet but integration has been smooth and your documentation has answered answered all of my questions. I'm looking forward to flipping the switch in the next week or two (just gotta get the bank account paperwork squared away) and seeing how things go.

krmmalik 15y ago

i'd also be inrerested in more information on Stripe

romland 15y ago

sigh I wish I had anything good to say to accompany this, but I came here to be as cheeky. If it's as good as I hear, then I could use it ... yesterday. Implementing payment systems as we speak!

Anthony_qraving 15y ago
hahah...About 23 hours to late for me too, would have loved to known about stripe yesterday before I started fighting with paypal and IPN (thanks relix)

saikat 15y ago

Hey (Saikat from Stripe) -- not cheeky at all, but certainly flattering. Sorry we've been kind of quiet (we do read Hacker News, though). We're just working hard to implement the feedback we've been getting from our existing users, and we want to make sure our product scales well and gets better as new people use it. Here's a question: any chance you would be interested in having us watch you integrate Stripe? We've been doing this lately to try to make sure our first-run experience is really good. Send me an e-mail (saikat@stripe.com) either way.

s00pcan 15y ago
Stripe was something on the article I hadn't heard of before. It just seems so logical for cardholder information to go directly from the customer to the payment processor using javascript that I wonder why it hasn't been done before and what you're doing differently. Can you explain?
- kolektiv 15y ago
  Well, hosted payment is not a new thing at all - so you iframe or link to a page you don't host which the customer uses - thus ensuring that card details don't hit your servers and don't give you a PCI surface. This is a fairly logical extension, I would guess that the reason it hasn't caught on more is because a JS requirement has typically been a red flag in e-commerce - 3% of users not being able to pay you once they got to that point of a funnel could be seen as disaster. Interesting, because we're looking at mandating JS in our new developments (background: company I work for does a lot of high end e-commerce - we're specialists). In theory it's a good idea (that side of it at least) but I don't know how security perception and customer acceptance rates will go.
  - s00pcan 15y ago
    Oh, of course. I completely forgot that there are some crazy people out there who browse without javascript. I was just jumping at the idea of reducing PCI compliance issues - I've had to deal with them and it's a huge project.
mcdowall 15y ago
Hey Saikat, Absolutely, could do it over some screen sharing or something, email on the way.
robflynn 15y ago
I just wanted to take a moment to say that Stripe has been a joy to use thus far. I haven't switched billing live yet but integration has been smooth and your documentation has answered answered all of my questions. I'm looking forward to flipping the switch in the next week or two (just gotta get the bank account paperwork squared away) and seeing how things go.