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That philosophy works fine with merchants who hope for repeat sales from the same customer. But what about subscription payments (what I use Stripe for). A reme

That philosophy works fine with merchants who hope for repeat sales from the same customer. But what about subscription payments (what I use Stripe for). A remember me button doesn't make sense there, as they are never re-entering the data to make another purchase. Perhaps you didn't test it with enough variety of merchants?

pc 13y ago
We definitely tested it with merchants who take subscription payments. But, yeah, the considerations are different, I agree. The primary motivating use case for Checkout was "standard" checkouts rather than subscription flows (even though it works well for the latter). I suspect we'll take a look at redesigning that flow entirely at some stage, with a product that may look quite different to Checkout.
- baudehlo 13y ago
  >though it works well for the latter "worked well". Now everyone using Checkout for subscription flow has to do work to change it. You just cost your users a lot of hours work, and my site only brings in enough to pay for the hosting costs. Err, thanks?
- jorde 13y ago
  It's great to hear that Stripe is iterating on products and personally I have been happy with Checkout in the past (I think we were the first site to integrated Checkout when @maccaw first build it). After reading other people's feedback here I totally understand their situation given that Stripe isn't a household name among consumers like Paypal (I hope it will be at some point but don't know how given the lack of consumer products). Why not just add "remember me" as the last step after customer has already inputted their information? This would not create any friction pre-payment and you would have more room to explain the feature. This would of course favor merchants and not Stripe, as you would probably gather less cookies. My 2 cents. PS. If Checkout is an experiment still, I would highlight that on documentation. One can't expect people to go and read announcement blog posts dating back a year.
jusben1369 13y ago
I'm not sure you'd be using their checkout form though for signing up folks for subscription plans. I mean you could but most folks like to control the flow with subscription based plans where there are multiple plans and features etc. Or maybe they intend for it to be used by subscriptions sites too.

pc 13y ago

We definitely tested it with merchants who take subscription payments. But, yeah, the considerations are different, I agree. The primary motivating use case for Checkout was "standard" checkouts rather than subscription flows (even though it works well for the latter). I suspect we'll take a look at redesigning that flow entirely at some stage, with a product that may look quite different to Checkout.

baudehlo 13y ago
>though it works well for the latter "worked well". Now everyone using Checkout for subscription flow has to do work to change it. You just cost your users a lot of hours work, and my site only brings in enough to pay for the hosting costs. Err, thanks?
jorde 13y ago
It's great to hear that Stripe is iterating on products and personally I have been happy with Checkout in the past (I think we were the first site to integrated Checkout when @maccaw first build it). After reading other people's feedback here I totally understand their situation given that Stripe isn't a household name among consumers like Paypal (I hope it will be at some point but don't know how given the lack of consumer products). Why not just add "remember me" as the last step after customer has already inputted their information? This would not create any friction pre-payment and you would have more room to explain the feature. This would of course favor merchants and not Stripe, as you would probably gather less cookies. My 2 cents. PS. If Checkout is an experiment still, I would highlight that on documentation. One can't expect people to go and read announcement blog posts dating back a year.

jusben1369 13y ago

I'm not sure you'd be using their checkout form though for signing up folks for subscription plans. I mean you could but most folks like to control the flow with subscription based plans where there are multiple plans and features etc. Or maybe they intend for it to be used by subscriptions sites too.