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These services are to Stripe what a paper checkbook is to instant wire transfers. Yes, it's all kind-of about accepting money. But to point out just a few of th
by jwr 15y ago
These services are to Stripe what a paper checkbook is to instant wire transfers. Yes, it's all kind-of about accepting money. But to point out just a few of the differences:
1) none of the existing services store credit card numbers, which means you have to run your customers through their horrible redirects and web forms every time they want to purchase something,
2) none allow subscription charging (see also (1) above for the reason why),
3) did I mention the horrible web forms, silly redirects, abysmal failure handling and overall user unfriendliness? Did I mention that they display ADVERTISEMENTS on their payment pages? I'm not kidding.
4) there is no developer API to speak of. You just redirect your customers to their horrible sites, cross your fingers and pray. Some of them might pay, some of them might even come back.
If Stripe were to become available in Poland, I'd switch in an instant.
- okrasz 15y agoOK, I see the point now.