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Stripe in Ireland

92 points by mootothemax 13y ago

lucaspiller 13y ago
If anyone is around, there is a well timed Stripe meetup in Dublin tonight: http://www.meetup.com/Stripe/events/137901352/ http://www.meetup.com/Stripe/events/137901352/
- Rossimac 13y ago
  Anyone travelling from Belfast? Would love to join!
dcc1 13y ago
Darragh any way to get in contact with you? emailed you last week with few questions in reply to your email from may
- dcc1 13y ago
  Never mind got thru' to support, all is well now :)
pastylegs 13y ago
I don't know a lot about Stripe, but I have been using Paypal to accept payments for work (I'm a web developer) from the US (I live in Ireland). Would Stripe be a viable alternative to this approach (I'm not fully comfortable with Paypal)? Stripe seems to be aimed moreso at transaction based payments (shops etc.)
- simonw 13y ago
  Stripe could work for this. There's Stripe integration with Xero, for example, which makes it trivial to issue an invoice and have a "Pay with Stripe" button show up on the Xero web page for that invoice.
- iaskwhy 13y ago
  Take a look at TransferWise, it's being used for that at some companies: http://transferwise.com/ http://transferwise.com/ Disclaimer: I'm not part of TransferWise, I just really like the idea.
mfen3 13y ago
Can we stop with the stripe adverts please? It's getting irritating. I'll have to start posting links to Paypal and Sagepay each day to balance it out.
- adamtulinius 13y ago
  You created an account just to post that? Really. I can understand that american citizens might be annoyed, but for people like me, who lives in Europe, it's nice to keep track of their progress.
  - obeattie 13y ago
    I'm an EU citizen and it seems a bit annoying to me, too. Clearly I'm in the minority (the upvotes are against me), but if I wanted to keep track of their progress I could just as well follow their blog or Twitter.
  - mfen3 13y ago
    I don't like companies abusing sites like Hacker News and posting links to their products. It's a form of spam. There's nothing remotely interesting in Stripe for a hacker, just another scummy payment processor.
    - sleepyhead 13y ago
      Clearly you have not dealt with other payment gateways. Regardless, news about payment gateways is interesting for developers because we have to implement them. And some of us are entrepreneurs and we have to choose a payment gateway to get money from our customers. If you don't like Stripe articles then don't upvote them.
      - mfen3 13y ago
        I have implemented a few payment gateways, none were particularly taxing for even a novice developer.
midhir 13y ago
Definitely welcome. Operating from Belfast, the intersection of a kind of Ireland/Britain venn diagram, options for accepting payments have been seriously limited for us. We've been using Fastspring so far and it has been great for abstracting away problems like when to charge VAT, PCI compliance, multi-currency charges etc. It got us up and running. But we're paying 9% on credit card transactions and directing people away from our app to make payments and that's not good. Luckily we got on the Stripe beta early. They've addressed multi-currency payments well. Our use case demands quite a bit of (re)development so it's not in yet. We're literally (figuratively :) chomping at the bit to get it installed though.
ondrejzabojnik 13y ago
Is there any relatively unobtrusive way of accepting payments via Stripe Ireland from other EU country? Compared to establishing business in USA from Europe to be able to use the US version...
- StavrosK 13y ago
  Creating a UK company is pretty easy, and you can use Stripe UK... I would imagine that invoicing the company for profits would be fine and wouldn't cost more, but, well, this is a pretty drastic step just to be able to use a web app! Goes to show you how much better than the competition Stripe is.
michaelmcmillan 13y ago
For the love of everything that is holy: Make Strip available for Scandinavian countries like Norway, Sweden and Denmark. I assure you there is demand.
- pc 13y ago
  Working on it!
  - playhard 13y ago
    What about India?
iamgopal 13y ago
now please rotate the flag 90 degree anti clockwise. ;)
wiradikusuma 13y ago
Hi guys, slightly off topic, but please help: Two months ago I incorporated a C-Corp in Delaware, and registered a "virtual office" in the same state, remotely from my country of residence in SE Asia. Mr Ryan Roberts[1] helped with the incorporation, but I still need a US bank account to create an account in Stripe. I need it for my upcoming SaaS. About a week ago I contacted Silicon Valley Bank to open an account (I can't remember who suggested it, I think Mr Ryan as well), and they sent me a questionnaire which I already filled out and sent back. But I haven't heard from them again. Since there's a story about Stripe in the front page[3], I'm wondering if someone can give me suggestion as how to proceed (e.g. maybe go to another bank). I've never been to US, and I hope I don't have to go there just to open a bank account. In case you're wondering, I was inspired by a blog post from Freshdesk[3]. [1] http://startuplawyer.com/about http://startuplawyer.com/about [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6319512 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6319512 [3] http://blog.freshdesk.com/how-to-incorporate-a-us-corporation-from-outs/ http://blog.freshdesk.com/how-to-incorporate-a-us-corporatio...

92 points by mootothemax 13y ago

If anyone is around, there is a well timed Stripe meetup in Dublin tonight: http://www.meetup.com/Stripe/events/137901352/ http://www.meetup.com/Stripe/events/137901352/

Rossimac 13y ago
Anyone travelling from Belfast? Would love to join!

dcc1 13y ago

Darragh any way to get in contact with you? emailed you last week with few questions in reply to your email from may

dcc1 13y ago
Never mind got thru' to support, all is well now :)

pastylegs 13y ago

I don't know a lot about Stripe, but I have been using Paypal to accept payments for work (I'm a web developer) from the US (I live in Ireland). Would Stripe be a viable alternative to this approach (I'm not fully comfortable with Paypal)? Stripe seems to be aimed moreso at transaction based payments (shops etc.)

simonw 13y ago
Stripe could work for this. There's Stripe integration with Xero, for example, which makes it trivial to issue an invoice and have a "Pay with Stripe" button show up on the Xero web page for that invoice.
iaskwhy 13y ago
Take a look at TransferWise, it's being used for that at some companies: http://transferwise.com/ http://transferwise.com/ Disclaimer: I'm not part of TransferWise, I just really like the idea.

mfen3 13y ago

Can we stop with the stripe adverts please? It's getting irritating. I'll have to start posting links to Paypal and Sagepay each day to balance it out.

adamtulinius 13y ago
You created an account just to post that? Really. I can understand that american citizens might be annoyed, but for people like me, who lives in Europe, it's nice to keep track of their progress.
- obeattie 13y ago
  I'm an EU citizen and it seems a bit annoying to me, too. Clearly I'm in the minority (the upvotes are against me), but if I wanted to keep track of their progress I could just as well follow their blog or Twitter.
- mfen3 13y ago
  I don't like companies abusing sites like Hacker News and posting links to their products. It's a form of spam. There's nothing remotely interesting in Stripe for a hacker, just another scummy payment processor.
  - sleepyhead 13y ago
    Clearly you have not dealt with other payment gateways. Regardless, news about payment gateways is interesting for developers because we have to implement them. And some of us are entrepreneurs and we have to choose a payment gateway to get money from our customers. If you don't like Stripe articles then don't upvote them.
    - mfen3 13y ago
      I have implemented a few payment gateways, none were particularly taxing for even a novice developer.

midhir 13y ago

Definitely welcome. Operating from Belfast, the intersection of a kind of Ireland/Britain venn diagram, options for accepting payments have been seriously limited for us. We've been using Fastspring so far and it has been great for abstracting away problems like when to charge VAT, PCI compliance, multi-currency charges etc. It got us up and running. But we're paying 9% on credit card transactions and directing people away from our app to make payments and that's not good. Luckily we got on the Stripe beta early. They've addressed multi-currency payments well. Our use case demands quite a bit of (re)development so it's not in yet. We're literally (figuratively :) chomping at the bit to get it installed though.

ondrejzabojnik 13y ago

Is there any relatively unobtrusive way of accepting payments via Stripe Ireland from other EU country? Compared to establishing business in USA from Europe to be able to use the US version...

StavrosK 13y ago
Creating a UK company is pretty easy, and you can use Stripe UK... I would imagine that invoicing the company for profits would be fine and wouldn't cost more, but, well, this is a pretty drastic step just to be able to use a web app! Goes to show you how much better than the competition Stripe is.

michaelmcmillan 13y ago

For the love of everything that is holy: Make Strip available for Scandinavian countries like Norway, Sweden and Denmark. I assure you there is demand.

pc 13y ago
Working on it!
- playhard 13y ago
  What about India?

iamgopal 13y ago

now please rotate the flag 90 degree anti clockwise. ;)

wiradikusuma 13y ago

Hi guys, slightly off topic, but please help: Two months ago I incorporated a C-Corp in Delaware, and registered a "virtual office" in the same state, remotely from my country of residence in SE Asia. Mr Ryan Roberts[1] helped with the incorporation, but I still need a US bank account to create an account in Stripe. I need it for my upcoming SaaS. About a week ago I contacted Silicon Valley Bank to open an account (I can't remember who suggested it, I think Mr Ryan as well), and they sent me a questionnaire which I already filled out and sent back. But I haven't heard from them again. Since there's a story about Stripe in the front page[3], I'm wondering if someone can give me suggestion as how to proceed (e.g. maybe go to another bank). I've never been to US, and I hope I don't have to go there just to open a bank account. In case you're wondering, I was inspired by a blog post from Freshdesk[3]. [1] http://startuplawyer.com/about http://startuplawyer.com/about [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6319512 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6319512 [3] http://blog.freshdesk.com/how-to-incorporate-a-us-corporation-from-outs/ http://blog.freshdesk.com/how-to-incorporate-a-us-corporatio...