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It's astonishing how quick they can expand something as complicated as payment processing to many - bigger and smaller - countries in Europe.
by stephanos2k 13y ago
It's astonishing how quick they can expand something as complicated as payment processing to many - bigger and smaller - countries in Europe.
- cperciva 13y agoOne you get into one EU country, dealing with other EU countries is probably quite a bit easier...
- donw 13y agoEspecially if that first country is Germany, as they're one of the economic powerhouses of the EU.
- mtrimpe 13y agoThey were already in beta in the Netherlands for a while actually. Given that we're quite similar to Germany except for being a bit more focussed on international trade, we might have been a test run for German deployment though.
- Kudos 13y agoIreland was the first Eurozone country to enter Stripe beta, UK was the first EU.
- Irishsteve 13y agoIreland is in the EU and uses the euro. UK is also in the EU but uses GBP.
- skrause 13y agoIsn't that exactly what Kudos said?
- Irishsteve 13y agoAh yes a little confusion has taken over on my part. Ireland is in the EU and the eurozone.
- mhd 13y agoWell, you probably need some kind of foothold for legal reasons somewhere in the EU/EEC (probably some tax-haven like Luxembourg), but after that it's not really that easy, as each country has its own legal and technical banking peculiarities. A pretty big mess.
- marijn 13y agoThey've been talking about this for more than a year. Not sure if that qualifies as quick. That being said, it's awesome that they got there—I got into the Dutch beta and can say the process of dealing with Stripe is an order of magnitude better than dealing with Paymill (the clone that rolled out earlier).