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Using Stripe to accept credit cards

49 points by tbugai 15y ago

LogicX 15y ago
I like that you used Stripe for finish weekend itself... we just leveraged Stripe in our project for a finish-weekend-esk hackathon in Boston: http://www.vampirehackathon.com http://www.vampirehackathon.com We created http://hipay.me http://hipay.me - a simple credit card invoicing system which lets you use your stripe token to collect payment from others, without being a developer. We are a finalist - awaiting word on the winner! http://vampirehackathon.com/escapes/27?page=finalists http://vampirehackathon.com/escapes/27?page=finalists Best of luck with Finish Weekend! Edit: linkified
- tbugai 15y ago
  Thats awesome! Good luck!
- dpapathanasiou 15y ago
  a simple credit card invoicing system which lets you use your stripe token to collect payment from others, without being a developer I created https://widgetpay.me/ https://widgetpay.me/ with the same concept in mind.
- zrail 15y ago
  hipay.me looks really cool! If I were doing consulting work right now I would totally consider using it over paypal for invoicing and payment.
davidjohnstone 15y ago
It's good to see that Stripe is as easy to use as they make it out to be. I recently discovered that accepting credit card payments is a massive problem that I'll soon face, and soon after that, Stripe appeared and promised to solve all of my problems. It seems like the perfect solution to the problem. (Now I'm waiting for it to start working in Australia...)
- jellicle 15y ago
  If you're waiting for a financial service that is offered in one country to be offered in your country, you're very likely to be waiting for a very very very long time. Stripe has ten people, their website says. Which of those ten people do you think is currently busy negotiating Australia's arcane financial rules[1] in order to service the tiny 22M population in Australia? The answer is "none of them". [1] I can say that because all countries have arcane financial rules.
  - pc 15y ago
    Actually, we're working on supporting Australia right now. We don't have an ETA, but we're not talking years. If you like, you can sign up to be notified when Stripe is available in Australia at https://stripe.com/global https://stripe.com/global.
zrail 15y ago
I switched to Stripe for https://www.remindlyo.com https://www.remindlyo.com a few days before launch and it's been working well so far. The integration was super easy and basically involved copy and pasting some javascript from their site into my payment form and adding a gem.
jaymedavis 15y ago
If anyone uses .net, check out this library https://github.com/jaymedavis/stripe.net https://github.com/jaymedavis/stripe.net
jpadilla_ 15y ago
That's awesome! I was just recently one of the organizers for Startup Weekend Puerto Rico and we did not expect to have people paying at the door, even less having people paying with credit cards. Thankfully the venue had one of those terminals to process credit cards, took us a while to get it setup, unfortunately the person was too impatient and left. Didn't cross my mind to have had setup Stripe for that occasion, but that would have been great. We are using Stripe for our soon-to-launch startup, http://getblimp.com http://getblimp.com. After using things like Recurly, I didn't hesitate to use Stripe, its pretty awesome and simple, plus not having to worry about a Merchant account or additional monthly bills.

49 points by tbugai 15y ago

I like that you used Stripe for finish weekend itself... we just leveraged Stripe in our project for a finish-weekend-esk hackathon in Boston: http://www.vampirehackathon.com http://www.vampirehackathon.com We created http://hipay.me http://hipay.me - a simple credit card invoicing system which lets you use your stripe token to collect payment from others, without being a developer. We are a finalist - awaiting word on the winner! http://vampirehackathon.com/escapes/27?page=finalists http://vampirehackathon.com/escapes/27?page=finalists Best of luck with Finish Weekend! Edit: linkified

tbugai 15y ago
Thats awesome! Good luck!
dpapathanasiou 15y ago
a simple credit card invoicing system which lets you use your stripe token to collect payment from others, without being a developer I created https://widgetpay.me/ https://widgetpay.me/ with the same concept in mind.
zrail 15y ago
hipay.me looks really cool! If I were doing consulting work right now I would totally consider using it over paypal for invoicing and payment.

davidjohnstone 15y ago

It's good to see that Stripe is as easy to use as they make it out to be. I recently discovered that accepting credit card payments is a massive problem that I'll soon face, and soon after that, Stripe appeared and promised to solve all of my problems. It seems like the perfect solution to the problem. (Now I'm waiting for it to start working in Australia...)

jellicle 15y ago
If you're waiting for a financial service that is offered in one country to be offered in your country, you're very likely to be waiting for a very very very long time. Stripe has ten people, their website says. Which of those ten people do you think is currently busy negotiating Australia's arcane financial rules[1] in order to service the tiny 22M population in Australia? The answer is "none of them". [1] I can say that because all countries have arcane financial rules.
- pc 15y ago
  Actually, we're working on supporting Australia right now. We don't have an ETA, but we're not talking years. If you like, you can sign up to be notified when Stripe is available in Australia at https://stripe.com/global https://stripe.com/global.

zrail 15y ago

I switched to Stripe for https://www.remindlyo.com https://www.remindlyo.com a few days before launch and it's been working well so far. The integration was super easy and basically involved copy and pasting some javascript from their site into my payment form and adding a gem.

jaymedavis 15y ago

If anyone uses .net, check out this library https://github.com/jaymedavis/stripe.net https://github.com/jaymedavis/stripe.net

jpadilla_ 15y ago

That's awesome! I was just recently one of the organizers for Startup Weekend Puerto Rico and we did not expect to have people paying at the door, even less having people paying with credit cards. Thankfully the venue had one of those terminals to process credit cards, took us a while to get it setup, unfortunately the person was too impatient and left. Didn't cross my mind to have had setup Stripe for that occasion, but that would have been great. We are using Stripe for our soon-to-launch startup, http://getblimp.com http://getblimp.com. After using things like Recurly, I didn't hesitate to use Stripe, its pretty awesome and simple, plus not having to worry about a Merchant account or additional monthly bills.