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Stripe appear to have been building this for quite a long time. I remember seeing bits of this in the API back in ~2018, and it may have been there significantl

Stripe appear to have been building this for quite a long time. I remember seeing bits of this in the API back in ~2018, and it may have been there significantly longer. I think in general they experiment with building lots of connections that most customers never see. At my previous place of work we integrated Klarna with Stripe, I see this has also now launched, but we used it in private beta for a long time. While it's nice that this is now available, I wonder how well it works in practice. We had numerous problems with our Klarna integration – mismatches in expected flows between Stripe/Klarna, needing to use some Klarna APIs directly and some via Stripe, and neither Stripe support nor Klarna support having any idea how the integration worked.

edwinwee 3y ago
Not sure if you still use the Klarna/Stripe integration at your current place, but curious to hear what went wrong. Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com?
- danpalmer 3y ago
  I'm afraid I left that company and went to a big tech company. I think it was just a combination of it being a private beta product so support/engineering were fairly uninformed, difficulty getting support for things that were in between Stripe and Klarna's services (a bit of blaming each other), and the fact that the Klarna flow didn't really fit Stripe's charge flow, so in terms of tech the integration was nearly as complex as a direct Klarna integration (obviously still beneficial in terms of the business side).