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Looks good, and I like the mistakes and solutions section. However, it's pretty much all covered by Stripe's open source jQuery.payment, which is also agnostic

by maccman 13y ago

Looks good, and I like the mistakes and solutions section. However, it's pretty much all covered by Stripe's open source jQuery.payment, which is also agnostic to your payment gateway. https://github.com/stripe/jquery.payment https://github.com/stripe/jquery.payment (Disclaimer - I built it.)

sgustard 13y ago
And you have a similar UI widget at https://stripe.com/docs/checkout https://stripe.com/docs/checkout
- kamjam 13y ago
  Lol, that looks exactly the same to me!
  - loceng 13y ago
    It's pretty hard to make the most minimal form look any different.
niel 13y ago
The presentation of Creditcard.js is great in terms of styling, and I'm sure the practical example goes a long way in selling something like this to non-developer decision makers. This is probably the market they are aiming for. Personally, I would much rather use the MIT-licensed jQuery.payment by Stripe. I think $300 or even $149 is prohibitively expensive, and would prefer a script that is actively used and reviewed in public by many developers. Thanks Alex!
- cookiecaper 13y ago
  Agreed. I wouldn't be opposed to paying $150 for a form that would take me a while to build, but there's already a lot of good open-source solutions for card inputs.
- pclark 13y ago
  "prohibitively expensive" ? Surely if you're a business of any merit – making even $500/month – $300 for a javascript library that'll remove bumps in the checkout process is worth it? I fail to see why this cannot co-exist alongside the Stripe alternative library. Heck, just taking the stripe library and offering commercial grade support, and charging $300 seems like a pretty good business.
  - dlss 13y ago
    Try checking out -- they're are still plenty of bumps in their checkout process...
  - EGreg 13y ago
    Can you explain how commercial-grade support for a library that hasn't been tested by many people is better than a community of people who have run and tested a library? What exactly are they going to do for the support?
    - kamjam 13y ago
      I'd also argue that a library developed and used by Stripe is pretty commercial grade too.
  - cenhyperion 13y ago
    >I fail to see why this cannot co-exist alongside the Stripe alternative library. It certainly can, anyone is more than welcome to pay for something done by open source software available for free. >Surely if you're a business of any merit Just because you're a business doesn't mean you should pay for things that you can do cheaper. The point is that a decent web developer could recreate that form in 20 minutes with jquery.payment and a little bit of CSS, so why should you pay $300 for the same thing?
- Justsignedup 13y ago
  Thinking price point, 300 is about a couple of hour's worth of work which they save your developers. Not a big deal.
Killswitch 13y ago
You guys at Stripe are amazing. I love you guys.
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jrochkind1 13y ago
From the initial docs of jQuery.payment, it looks like a lower-level tool -- the OP provides the promise of "you just drop it in, and you get these things, designed for you." jQuery.payment looks like "Here's a toolset you can use to do whatever you want!" But I don't want to spend time figuring out what I want and putting it together. I also don't want to spend $150/year on it though. :) If you built a higher-level abstraction on top of jQuery.payment, that made the good design choices for the developer, so the developer could just 'insert form here'....

by maccman 13y ago

sgustard 13y ago

And you have a similar UI widget at https://stripe.com/docs/checkout https://stripe.com/docs/checkout

kamjam 13y ago
Lol, that looks exactly the same to me!
- loceng 13y ago
  It's pretty hard to make the most minimal form look any different.

niel 13y ago

The presentation of Creditcard.js is great in terms of styling, and I'm sure the practical example goes a long way in selling something like this to non-developer decision makers. This is probably the market they are aiming for. Personally, I would much rather use the MIT-licensed jQuery.payment by Stripe. I think $300 or even $149 is prohibitively expensive, and would prefer a script that is actively used and reviewed in public by many developers. Thanks Alex!

cookiecaper 13y ago
Agreed. I wouldn't be opposed to paying $150 for a form that would take me a while to build, but there's already a lot of good open-source solutions for card inputs.
pclark 13y ago
"prohibitively expensive" ? Surely if you're a business of any merit – making even $500/month – $300 for a javascript library that'll remove bumps in the checkout process is worth it? I fail to see why this cannot co-exist alongside the Stripe alternative library. Heck, just taking the stripe library and offering commercial grade support, and charging $300 seems like a pretty good business.
- dlss 13y ago
  Try checking out -- they're are still plenty of bumps in their checkout process...
- EGreg 13y ago
  Can you explain how commercial-grade support for a library that hasn't been tested by many people is better than a community of people who have run and tested a library? What exactly are they going to do for the support?
  - kamjam 13y ago
    I'd also argue that a library developed and used by Stripe is pretty commercial grade too.
- cenhyperion 13y ago
  >I fail to see why this cannot co-exist alongside the Stripe alternative library. It certainly can, anyone is more than welcome to pay for something done by open source software available for free. >Surely if you're a business of any merit Just because you're a business doesn't mean you should pay for things that you can do cheaper. The point is that a decent web developer could recreate that form in 20 minutes with jquery.payment and a little bit of CSS, so why should you pay $300 for the same thing?
Justsignedup 13y ago
Thinking price point, 300 is about a couple of hour's worth of work which they save your developers. Not a big deal.

Killswitch 13y ago

You guys at Stripe are amazing. I love you guys.

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jrochkind1 13y ago

From the initial docs of jQuery.payment, it looks like a lower-level tool -- the OP provides the promise of "you just drop it in, and you get these things, designed for you." jQuery.payment looks like "Here's a toolset you can use to do whatever you want!" But I don't want to spend time figuring out what I want and putting it together. I also don't want to spend $150/year on it though. :) If you built a higher-level abstraction on top of jQuery.payment, that made the good design choices for the developer, so the developer could just 'insert form here'....