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Oh man... I love that Stripe is finally coming to Europe. BUT seriously (going on a disappointed rant here): Belgium & the Netherlands get into private beta an

Oh man... I love that Stripe is finally coming to Europe. BUT seriously (going on a disappointed rant here): Belgium & the Netherlands get into private beta and Germany gets nothing? I mean: Come on. BE + NL together have 27m people - Germany has some 80m AND a world-class economy. I don't want to bash on our neighbors (God knows we've done that one or two times in the past), I just want me some Stripe. I know that the delay is probably because of some ridiculous red tape in Germany. :-( tl;dr: Please absolve us from PayMill & the Samwer brother

jusben1369 13y ago
No idea but one thing Germany is famous for is the low adoption of credit cards vs direct debit (ELV) etc - more so than most European countries. German's tend to find it a deal breaker (locally) if you are a payment gateway that only supports credit cards. So that could be one reason why but just a guess.
- k-mcgrady 13y ago
  AFAIK debit cards are supported but limited to Visa and Mastercard.
  - webignition 13y ago
    The UK beta allowed Visa and Mastercard credit and debit cards
  - hiddenfeatures 13y ago
    n.b. we were talking about DIRECT DEBIT (which is something else entirely from debit cards). You basically allow a company to directly withdraw money from your bank account (assuming sufficient funds on the account)
    - k-mcgrady 13y ago
      Sorry, misread that. Direct debit support would be nice!
      - hiddenfeatures 13y ago
        No worries. Indeed direct debit would be awesome - at least for the marginal subset of "companies doing business in Germany"
- hiddenfeatures 13y ago
  Very good point there! Sadly we (as usual) have found our own way of doing things :-/
Peroni 13y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the issue with PayMill? I always assumed they were a decent alternative?
- germangirl 13y ago
  ive implemented them into my shop and im totally happy with it to be honest. easy implementation, works fine & great supported provided.
  - hiddenfeatures 13y ago
    I found a few of their examples had errors in them. Plus a general dislike towards the Samwer brothers. (I know that this shouldn't affect business)
    - nhangen 13y ago
      "Plus a general dislike towards the Samwer brothers." This is why I won't use them until customers beg me to.
thairu 13y ago
We are working on bringing Stripe to Germany. Please sign up at https://stripe.com/global https://stripe.com/global to be notified when we launch (I work at Stripe)

jusben1369 13y ago

No idea but one thing Germany is famous for is the low adoption of credit cards vs direct debit (ELV) etc - more so than most European countries. German's tend to find it a deal breaker (locally) if you are a payment gateway that only supports credit cards. So that could be one reason why but just a guess.

k-mcgrady 13y ago
AFAIK debit cards are supported but limited to Visa and Mastercard.
- webignition 13y ago
  The UK beta allowed Visa and Mastercard credit and debit cards
- hiddenfeatures 13y ago
  n.b. we were talking about DIRECT DEBIT (which is something else entirely from debit cards). You basically allow a company to directly withdraw money from your bank account (assuming sufficient funds on the account)
  - k-mcgrady 13y ago
    Sorry, misread that. Direct debit support would be nice!
    - hiddenfeatures 13y ago
      No worries. Indeed direct debit would be awesome - at least for the marginal subset of "companies doing business in Germany"
hiddenfeatures 13y ago
Very good point there! Sadly we (as usual) have found our own way of doing things :-/

Peroni 13y ago

Out of curiosity, what's the issue with PayMill? I always assumed they were a decent alternative?

germangirl 13y ago
ive implemented them into my shop and im totally happy with it to be honest. easy implementation, works fine & great supported provided.
- hiddenfeatures 13y ago
  I found a few of their examples had errors in them. Plus a general dislike towards the Samwer brothers. (I know that this shouldn't affect business)
  - nhangen 13y ago
    "Plus a general dislike towards the Samwer brothers." This is why I won't use them until customers beg me to.

thairu 13y ago

We are working on bringing Stripe to Germany. Please sign up at https://stripe.com/global https://stripe.com/global to be notified when we launch (I work at Stripe)