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Patrick from Stripe here. We know how important that is. I personally grew up in Europe (Ireland), and 5 of the 10 people at Stripe grew up outside of the US. I

by pc 15y ago

Patrick from Stripe here. We know how important that is. I personally grew up in Europe (Ireland), and 5 of the 10 people at Stripe grew up outside of the US. It sucks that we're US-only right now. We're actually working on supporting Europe right now. It's pretty complex, and won't happen overnight -- but it's one of our very highest priorities. If you'd like to be notified when Stripe is available wherever you live, you can leave your name at https://stripe.com/help/global https://stripe.com/help/global. We'll also announce news at twitter.com/stripe.

adamt 15y ago
Anyone that has tried it knows just how hard it is for pan-european payments across the 'single-market'. For some reason since we've been able to define common european legislation for the curvature of bananas(1), but not for stuff like payment transactions. But this is what makes your offering from being a nice friendly API and "payments that don't suck" (which are largely just nice-to-haves) to something that is completely compelling and truly-enabling and revenue generating (e.g. opens up new markets) The competitive landscape in Europe is also from the previous era. Anyone that had integrated with something like RBS Worldpay will which looks like it was hacked together in a bit of Perl(2) in 2000 and never changed. Footnotes: (1) Commission Regulation (EC) rule 2257/94 states bananas must be "free from malformation or abnormal curvature (2) I have nothing (that major!) against Perl, but it kinda summarises the kinda person and era that it was written in.
juliano_q 15y ago
Hi Patrick. Please take a look at the possibility to also support Brazil. There is a huge market here and the current solutions (Pagseguro and Pagamento Digital are the biggest atm) are far from good enough. A simple solution like Stripe would be awesome.
philjr 15y ago
This is a difficult problem in Europe and fair play if you can get it done. I have some friends who built the software behind Sentenial which does DD processing in Ireland & Europe. Their CEO & CTO was scared away from adding in CC processing into the mix because of all the complexity. Not that this should necessarily scare you, just go into this with your eyes wide open. If nothing else, this is a bureaucratic minefield.
SeamusBrady 15y ago
As a fellow Paddy, I salute you. Looking forward to the service being available in Ireland.

by pc 15y ago

adamt 15y ago

Anyone that has tried it knows just how hard it is for pan-european payments across the 'single-market'. For some reason since we've been able to define common european legislation for the curvature of bananas(1), but not for stuff like payment transactions. But this is what makes your offering from being a nice friendly API and "payments that don't suck" (which are largely just nice-to-haves) to something that is completely compelling and truly-enabling and revenue generating (e.g. opens up new markets) The competitive landscape in Europe is also from the previous era. Anyone that had integrated with something like RBS Worldpay will which looks like it was hacked together in a bit of Perl(2) in 2000 and never changed. Footnotes: (1) Commission Regulation (EC) rule 2257/94 states bananas must be "free from malformation or abnormal curvature (2) I have nothing (that major!) against Perl, but it kinda summarises the kinda person and era that it was written in.

juliano_q 15y ago

Hi Patrick. Please take a look at the possibility to also support Brazil. There is a huge market here and the current solutions (Pagseguro and Pagamento Digital are the biggest atm) are far from good enough. A simple solution like Stripe would be awesome.

philjr 15y ago

This is a difficult problem in Europe and fair play if you can get it done. I have some friends who built the software behind Sentenial which does DD processing in Ireland & Europe. Their CEO & CTO was scared away from adding in CC processing into the mix because of all the complexity. Not that this should necessarily scare you, just go into this with your eyes wide open. If nothing else, this is a bureaucratic minefield.

SeamusBrady 15y ago

As a fellow Paddy, I salute you. Looking forward to the service being available in Ireland.