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Stripe App Marketplace
- sl9dmk2 4y agoStripe always on a tear
- kache_ 4y agoSo stripe is trying to emulate what made skyrim so successful? Modding for Saas? Cool :)
- shillalert 4y ago
- adithyasrin 4y agoGreat to see a fair bit of apps already built. I also see apps reading a lot of your sensitive data, so I'd wait to see how it works out.
- elietoubi 4y ago
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- onphonenow 4y agoWe do relatively lower volume of higher value ACH transactions (ie, 20K/transaction). What's interesting is strip invoicing is pretty uncompetitive here. Fee for sending one invoice is $100/invoice. For every 100 invoices you are spending $10,000. OUCH!!! In other words, if someone was allowed to do an invoicing app in this marketplace it might do ok for a group out there. A target would be folks doing ACH payments (you need to cap per invoice including payment fees at $10 to be competitive here I think). EDIT: Sorry, corrected to be $100/invoice from $500/invoice which is still much higher than we see elsewhere to send out an invoice.
- jmuguy 4y agoThey charge 0.5% per invoice for the higher tier, so for 20k that would be 100 bucks. Which is still excessive imo, but not 500 bucks.
- edwinwee 4y agoYes, this math seems more accurate. And for businesses sending _many_ high-dollar invoices, we have custom pricing. (Get in touch at https://stripe.com/contact/sales https://stripe.com/contact/sales or email edwin@stripe.com.)
- gkedzierski 4y agoBut would you allow invoicing app into your app store?
- onphonenow 4y agoThat's really my question - I think there's room for a $5 or $10 invoicing solution (ie, cap invoicing fee at $5 or so). Maybe somewhat simplified. I'd like custom domain as well of course.
- systemvoltage 4y agoWhy is invoicing a percentage and not a flat fee? Does it cost more to transact it?
- antaviana 4y agoPricing works best when aligning with value instead of costs. In general you should also try to align your pricing with value for better margins (especially if you are have a monopoly condition). The rationale is that Stripe believe that a small percentage will align better with customer acceptance of pricing than a flat fee per invoice, which allows them to capture more dollars from the relationship.
- xeeton 4y agoThe "Build an App" link in the header 404s. Looks good otherwise!
- throwaway110535 4y agoSo this is what happened to https://openchannel.io/ https://openchannel.io/
- tikkun 4y agoThis was inevitable. App marketplaces are great all around. Great for users - more functionality. Great for partners - easy access to distribution/users. Great for the marketplace owner - improve your product, while adding network effects that deepen your moat against competitors.
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- onphonenow 4y agoThe question is often how closely they let apps compete with them. Ie, can I roll out a (cheaper) invoicing solution with for example a $5/invoice cap. Quickbooks et al do allow this. Some players do not like that.
- DantesKite 4y agoIf history is any indicator, Stripe can always Sherlock the service and build a better native feature.
- boringg 4y agoIt's almost like any successful developer needs to develop an app thats popular but not that popular and verging on slightly more difficult so that the moat holder (in this case Stripe) doesn't want to build it themselves. Alternatively make something that catches fire really quickly and sell very quickly before they can build it themself.
- revorad 4y agoThis looks cool. Took it for a spin but got stuck at this confirmation message after running the create app command: To continue, please accept Stripe Apps terms and conditions for your account. Press Enter to open the browser or visit https://dashboard.stripe.com/apps/accept-terms https://dashboard.stripe.com/apps/accept-terms (^C to quit) Waiting for confirmation... After waiting for a few minutes, it terminates with this: please accept Stripe Apps terms and conditions before proceeding I've already accepted the terms.
- judge2020 4y agoIt states "Stripe Apps are coming in the next few weeks. Explore the Marketplace, and get notified when an app is available" so maybe it's just how they're gating access.
- jmtulloss 4y agoThe developer experience is live today though! The OP encountered a bug, we're looking into it internally.
- jmtulloss 4y agoThanks for the report; we're tracking this on the public Github repo for Stripe Apps: https://github.com/stripe/stripe-apps/issues/608 https://github.com/stripe/stripe-apps/issues/608 You can follow that issue for updates (hopefully shortly!) and if you have additional details to add, adding them there will get them to the team directly. Thanks again and sorry for the launch day bumps :)
- costcofries 4y agoThis is great, congrats on the launch, I love ecosystems! One thing I'd really love to get Stripe's take on is how they are thinking about utility of 3p apps within Stripe. For me, it's much easier to work within the native app than to figure out how to use that same app, with limited functionality, within Stripe.
- therusskiy 4y agoDo they allow apps they extend Stripe's functionality but charge for it?
- tyingq 4y agoSeems so, "Transparent and consistent pricing You must clearly state your app pricing up front, without hidden costs or fees. App pricing must also be consistent with off-marketplace prices." https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-apps/review-requirements#app-review-requirements https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-apps/review-requirements#app-... Though I suppose Stripe is watching for apps doing things Stripe should/could do itself as a real-time "what would people pay extra for?" list.
- schnebbau 4y agoYes but if you create something worthwhile they'll just copy it and make you sad.
- systemvoltage 4y agoEvery time I use any of these apps, there is always a nagging sense of instability. I don’t want to base my business transactions that relies on a 3rd party Shopify app that fulfills orders over a fragile API, run by one dude hanging out on the beaches of Bali. Some of these may be very stable but this is always on the back of my mind: “Is this going to work in 5 years?” If you ever want to witness horror, jump over to Shopify forums: Zapier integrations gone wrong, unresponsive APIs, App owners not responding, businesses adding free integration apps that were last updated during the Obama administration, etc. While Stripe API and their core services are stable, none of this inspires confidence.
- upupandup 4y agoseems like a lot of YC IPO companies are struggling to keep their share prices afloat and this seems like something to send more paying customers to its network of YC backed businesses. ex) Docusign is down by at least 80%
- ctvo 4y agoA lot to unpack here. 1. Stripe is a private company, it hasn't IPO'd. 2. YC was an early investor in Stripe, but as a late stage company, Stripe has many, many stakeholders that are investors: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stripe/company_financials https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stripe/company_finan... to think that they're beholden to YC and would make business decisions for the sake of YC companies -- oof.
- upupandup 4y agoLot of the companies featured in the marketplace is what I'm referring to I don't think its esoteric knowledge of those points you listed. But I'm sure you been paying attention to the markets....
- ctvo 4y ago> Lot of the companies featured in the marketplace is what I'm referring... This isn't actually what you said in your original post, but sure, let's breakdown this too. Under "Featured apps" there's Mailchimp, Dropbox, Google Drive, Bench Accounting, Ramp, and Render. Dropbox is the only one I recognize as a YC company. I pay attention to a lot of things. What do you pay attention to?
- lifeisstillgood 4y agoOk - so asking the inevitable question - what is the one thing Stripe does not provide that you want to build / have someone build for you?
- heipei 4y agoUsing Stripe for B2B / Enterprise SaaS subscriptions. A few things that would improve my life, though I suspect Stripe might already working on a few of those: Easy way to create a recurring subscription based on a one-off price, currency and product description (just so this is still recognised as recurring revenue). Recurring subscriptions that automatically pause and remind me 30/60 days before renewal so I can reach out to the customer and get a new purchase order. Customer templates - Many customers purchase through resellers, so having templates for different resellers would accelerate the process to add new customers with the same bill-to but different ship-to. Dashboard with upcoming renewals for annual subscriptions. Saved export settings (columns) for payouts, so I can export these each month for my accountant. Yes, you can do all of those through the API, and I'm sure Stripe will tackle these sooner rather than later, still, just to give you an idea.
- cyral 4y agoI really want a wrapper around the terrible in-app payment APIs of Google and Apple. There are some companies doing this (RevenueCat) but in my experience they are super buggy even to this day, which sorta goes against the entire problem they are trying to solve. The APIs that apple and google provide are a mess and full of weird edge cases and hacks (like polling for changes rather than webhooks), so a wrapper around it with proper webhooks and a well designed API like Stripe’s existing products would be amazing.
- jefago 4y agoHey, RevenueCat Head of Product here. I'm sorry that you have had a bad experience with RevenueCat – we definitely aim to provide just what you outlined. Could you let me know what kinds of bugs you experienced? We're doing our best to abstract those messy APIs, and unfortunately some things are outside our control, but if there are any issues we can fix, we'll do our best to do that!
- possiblelion 4y agoSomewhat unrelated, but I've found it really difficult to stop a recurring payment with Stripe. A company which has shut (website down and email unresponsive) keeps trying to charge 299 bucks on my card via stripe. No way to stop it either, if the client website is down. Ripe for failed founders to exploit
- edwinwee 4y agoCould you email me at edwin@stripe.com? Would like to see what's going on here and stop the payments. (We stop recurring payments when a business shuts down their Stripe account.)
- sodality2 4y agoWhat if a business does not shut down their Stripe account? My business uses Payment links and a customer asked to cancel their subscription. Of course I canceled it but I stopped to think what would happen if I was hit by a bus. Is there no other option but a chargeback if a subscription does not have a cancel option?
- Jugurtha 4y agoHi, Edwin. I'm in the process of integrating Stripe to https://iko.ai https://iko.ai. I recently discovered Portal (https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/integrating-customer-portal https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/integrating-cu...) and I thank you for that. Less code for me. I'm a bit ashamed to say, but I'm having trouble with checking if the customer has a valid subscription. I'm currently only storing the customer_id in the database and retrieving the information from Stripe to have it as a single source of truth and avoiding putting the Stripe info in our database and having to make sure it's synced. On the other hand, I can't make a request to Stripe with every request, so I'm thinking of memoization or something. I could find guides on how to accept payments and create subscriptions which are trivial, but no examples on what happens after that. Suppose I have an API with a single endpoint and set up a subscription for a customer, how do I not hit the Stripe API with every request to check if the subscription is still alive without storing customer info in my database and having to sync it (i.e: keep everything in Stripe)?
- anurag 4y agoWe (Render) are a featured app in the marketplace [1]; the app lets you run real time queries against your Stripe data in a fully-managed PostgreSQL database that's always in sync. Happy to answer questions about our experience building it! [1] https://marketplace.stripe.com/apps/render-sql https://marketplace.stripe.com/apps/render-sql
- fidrelity 4y agoWhile the Stripe/Render integration looks interesting for our latest startup, more than anything I just wanted to take a moment and say 'Thank you' for building such a decent product.
- smotched 4y agoNot quite sure what this is solving, doesnt stripe already allow you to query for data?
- christophilus 4y agoYes. Very slowly and inflexibly.
- sa46 4y agoAny interesting details on how it’s implemented? If I were guessing, register a stripe webhook. On each webhook, and fetch changed events and turn it into proper sql.
- jimhi 4y ago
- orliesaurus 4y agoI was in the beta for this and it's been really cool to hack around on this platform. Been working on making a read-write stripe app to connect to an external CRM. To be honest the only struggle I experienced is that sometimes the console of the browser doesn't return the error and therefore it requires a little digging to figure out what's going on that causes the app to not render.
- fumar 4y agoI am always pleasantly surprise by Stripe's output from Increment to this marketplace. My spouse uses Stripe for two small businesses and we haven't had any issues. I work in ad tech and I point to Stripe's documentation as a great example of clear comms and instructions.
- bspear 4y agoIs it just me or does Stripe ship something big every week
- ultra_nick 4y agoLet's agree they do it frequently
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- wdb 4y agoLooks nice but I can't find a Sketch template to help designing the Apps only Figma seems to be available
- orliesaurus 4y agoI think Figma is the de-facto in SV - I haven't heard of any designer friends using Sketch since at least 2019
- pwncake 4y agoGlad to see this. Zapier is a hot mess
- mattzzz 4y agoI was expecting it to come earlier but never disappoint when it finally arrives. This will definitely make the Stripe ecosystem (apps, developers, etc) even stronger.
- ____marketplace 4y agoSurprised they don’t handle App-Billing like Shopify does from a first look at the docs. Is this on the roadmap so that devs can directly charge for their app?
- orliesaurus 4y agoyes thats coming next!