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US only at the moment. Anyone know if they have plans for the UK? I would dearly love to say goodbye to PayPal forever.

by almost 15y ago

boucher 15y ago
We're definitely working on expanding to other countries. There's no definite timeline just yet, but it's one of our top priorities.
- almost 15y ago
  Well if you ever need a UK based (UK Limited Company) beta tester let me know! :)
- grecy 15y ago
  I'll start using it as soon as you do...
- matthewking 15y ago
  Another UK LTD company here wanting to use your service the minute its available, so many headaches to be avoided.
- klaut 15y ago
  i am your customer as soon as you do this :)
- dorian-graph 15y ago
  Australia. ;)
- keeran 15y ago
  I've held off developing / launching a few small biz ideas because of the state of payment providers in the UK - ready and waiting to help you test when you're over here :)
  - Silhouette 15y ago
    I concur entirely (and have spoken with my MP about it). However, as far as I can tell, anyone using any of the more established "big name" billing services to collect payments for a UK company is almost certainly breaking at least one law on a "your business is at risk" scale. Stripe would have to be very special to do better. The usual culprits are VAT (I have yet to find a billing service that would actually allow a UK business to comply with its basic statutory requirements on this count, including several that claim to support VAT) and privacy (exporting personal data, such as names and credit card details, outside of Europe requires certain guarantees, which again I don't think would be met by any of the services I've looked into so far). I imagine quite a few businesses are getting away with using these services and not meeting their obligations, but personally I wouldn't want to operate with that sort of risk, particularly now Business Record Checks are becoming big news. Stripe does seem to have a fairly clean API, but on the flip side, it also seems very limited in features next to some of the more established competition, so maybe it's just horses for courses. Again, I know that none of the other billing services we've considered this year even got close to supporting the basic charging model we wanted, never mind all the bells and whistles we've been considering, and if you wind up having to do a bunch of financial legwork yourself, these services start to look like very poor value for money pretty quickly. IMHO, what small businesses in the UK really need is for the government to stop hassling banks about lending lots of money (sometimes useful, but not to many of us) and just get them to provide basic services like card payments in a sane manner: no multi-month waits to get up and running, directly comparable charging structures on some standard basis, transparent migration of customer card data between all the vault services without causing a PCI nightmare so there is genuine competition in the market, and so on. And then I woke up. :-)
    - AndyJPartridge 15y ago
      +1, well said. As I said in the live chat to them tonight - please guys, get to the UK soon :-)
    - tablatom 15y ago
      I don't see the problem with VAT. Just keep rack of where your customers are and pay the VAT on those in Europe. Where does the payment processor come into it? If you owe VAT then pay it.
- eberfreitas 15y ago
  I would LOVE to have something like that in Brazil...
- bmaeser 15y ago
  the day its possible to use your service in europe/austria, i sign up. payment is a real pain in the neck and a rip-off in europe.
- Kavan 15y ago
  +1 for the UK
- wilhelm 15y ago
  +1 from Norway. The local payment providers are terrible.
- adriaanp 15y ago
  Don't forget "third world" countries like South Africa :)
- gumbah 15y ago
  Netherlands +1
- pdelgallego 15y ago
  Another one here from Denmark, but Spain will make the deal as well.
- PhilRae 15y ago
  +2 for UK
- sidwood 15y ago
  +3 for the UK.
- dgoujard 15y ago
  +1 for France
- HistoricalWalks 15y ago
  Germany please!
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hm2k 15y ago
I too vote for this.

US only at the moment. Anyone know if they have plans for the UK? I would dearly love to say goodbye to PayPal forever.

by almost 15y ago

US only at the moment. Anyone know if they have plans for the UK? I would dearly love to say goodbye to PayPal forever.

We're definitely working on expanding to other countries. There's no definite timeline just yet, but it's one of our top priorities.

almost 15y ago
Well if you ever need a UK based (UK Limited Company) beta tester let me know! :)
grecy 15y ago
I'll start using it as soon as you do...
matthewking 15y ago
Another UK LTD company here wanting to use your service the minute its available, so many headaches to be avoided.
klaut 15y ago
i am your customer as soon as you do this :)
dorian-graph 15y ago
Australia. ;)
keeran 15y ago
I've held off developing / launching a few small biz ideas because of the state of payment providers in the UK - ready and waiting to help you test when you're over here :)
- Silhouette 15y ago
  I concur entirely (and have spoken with my MP about it). However, as far as I can tell, anyone using any of the more established "big name" billing services to collect payments for a UK company is almost certainly breaking at least one law on a "your business is at risk" scale. Stripe would have to be very special to do better. The usual culprits are VAT (I have yet to find a billing service that would actually allow a UK business to comply with its basic statutory requirements on this count, including several that claim to support VAT) and privacy (exporting personal data, such as names and credit card details, outside of Europe requires certain guarantees, which again I don't think would be met by any of the services I've looked into so far). I imagine quite a few businesses are getting away with using these services and not meeting their obligations, but personally I wouldn't want to operate with that sort of risk, particularly now Business Record Checks are becoming big news. Stripe does seem to have a fairly clean API, but on the flip side, it also seems very limited in features next to some of the more established competition, so maybe it's just horses for courses. Again, I know that none of the other billing services we've considered this year even got close to supporting the basic charging model we wanted, never mind all the bells and whistles we've been considering, and if you wind up having to do a bunch of financial legwork yourself, these services start to look like very poor value for money pretty quickly. IMHO, what small businesses in the UK really need is for the government to stop hassling banks about lending lots of money (sometimes useful, but not to many of us) and just get them to provide basic services like card payments in a sane manner: no multi-month waits to get up and running, directly comparable charging structures on some standard basis, transparent migration of customer card data between all the vault services without causing a PCI nightmare so there is genuine competition in the market, and so on. And then I woke up. :-)
  - AndyJPartridge 15y ago
    +1, well said. As I said in the live chat to them tonight - please guys, get to the UK soon :-)
  - tablatom 15y ago
    I don't see the problem with VAT. Just keep rack of where your customers are and pay the VAT on those in Europe. Where does the payment processor come into it? If you owe VAT then pay it.
eberfreitas 15y ago
I would LOVE to have something like that in Brazil...
bmaeser 15y ago
the day its possible to use your service in europe/austria, i sign up. payment is a real pain in the neck and a rip-off in europe.
Kavan 15y ago
+1 for the UK
wilhelm 15y ago
+1 from Norway. The local payment providers are terrible.
adriaanp 15y ago
Don't forget "third world" countries like South Africa :)
gumbah 15y ago
Netherlands +1
pdelgallego 15y ago
Another one here from Denmark, but Spain will make the deal as well.
PhilRae 15y ago
+2 for UK
sidwood 15y ago
+3 for the UK.
dgoujard 15y ago
+1 for France
HistoricalWalks 15y ago
Germany please!

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hm2k 15y ago

I too vote for this.