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Plasso: Payments Made Simple
- joshdance 12y agoSeems to be well designed and simple. Similar to Gumroad.
- ianwootten 12y agoFrom Drew Wilson: drewwilson.com. Described as the successor to spacebox.io
- FriedPickles 12y agoLooks awesome! Is there an example of a "space" we can see?
- maxmcd 12y agohttps://plasso.co/s/ntaOPsnnlu https://plasso.co/s/ntaOPsnnlu https://plasso.co/market/drew-s-store/ https://plasso.co/market/drew-s-store/ There are a few demos in the "Sell everything" section
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- kolev 12y agoIt's interesting that there's a spinner on the CVV of the credit card.
- cabbeer 12y agoIs this more like gumroad or shopify?
- nycmattw 12y agoI was wondering why the hell is my email address already on here. Turns out it's spacebox.io renamed.
- deweller 12y agoNote that all plans are in addition to Stripe's 2.9% and 30 cents per transaction. The big 0% under the platinum plan header implies that you will not pay credit card fees. In fact, you will be paying $139/month plus 2.9% and 30 cents per transaction.
- paultannenbaum 12y agoI noticed this too. Seems like the potential for a lot of angry customers, though if I remember correctly when it was spacebox it included stipe's fees in its pricing. Must have been too costly to attract customers.
- tbrooks 12y agoIncredibly misleading. 0% equals 0% when 0% is actually 0%, not 2.9%.
- kolev 12y agoI don't get why companies like this can charge a percentage equal to the credit card fee. If you pay 6% + $0.30 (on low ticket items, $0.30 could add additional few percent), but your margin is, let's say, 20%, you literally need to pay a third of your margin for processing. If you sell your old shoes or something that doesn't cost you anything but your time, then it's okay, but all these marketplaces literally are saying: "Low-volume low-margin merchants are not welcome!"
- mjhea0 12y agoThey need some fine print since this is incredibly misleading. Don't want to do that to your first customers.
- twrkit 12y agoSo why pay extra for a Stripe wrapper?
- ianwootten 12y agoSo you don't have to do anything yourself? I personally don't want to set up a https certificate every time I want to take a payment.
- pessimizer 12y agoHow many years are you willing to pay a revolving monthly fee to avoid spending an hour on an ssl cert once? Just asking for market research purposes.
- ianwootten 12y agoUntil a better solution arrives. It obviously depends on the context, but that will be an hour for every project/domain I take payments on. In some cases something like this might be a better fit.
- markhelo 12y agoIf you set up your domain on Cloudflare and use their SSL, you literally do not need to worry about SSL certs.
- garrettdimon 12y agoStripe is only the payment processor. Plasso also handles distributing digital downloads for you.
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- ianwootten 12y agoExcept it doesn't, if you need to: send an order confirmation, manage an inventory, deliver files digitally etc.
- namuol 12y agoI've been following Spacebox; what happened to plastic.io? Trademark conflict? (i.e. why change the name?)
- srik 12y agoSomeone owned the trademark to "plastic". Drew still owns plastic.io.
- elliotanderson 12y agoHe ran into trademark issues with http://www.plastiq.com http://www.plastiq.com. Same payment space, and they beat him to filing a trademark by a year (by his account he was waiting to secure the domain name first, which cost him that year). Ended up getting a demand to transfer the domain to them for free [1] [1] https://twitter.com/drewwilson/status/446708094911799296 https://twitter.com/drewwilson/status/446708094911799296
- s04p 12y agoStripe checkout is as easy to integrate & also well designed. Why bother to have yet another middleman in the game.
- dangrossman 12y ago> Stripe checkout is as easy to integrate Stripe Checkout requires that you know how to write and integrate code. Plasso does not. Of the 2.4 billion people with internet-connected computers, only 1-2 million can write code.
- s04p 12y agoSeriously? It's as easy as integrating a tweet or like button into a blog post. Just copy & paste.
- dangrossman 12y agoIt's not copy and paste. Stripe Checkout does not even take a payment. All it does is present the UI to collect information, then returns a token to your page via a hidden form field. You must then write code to accept the form submission, use Stripe's API to make a charge against the token you received, send receipts and deliver the product. Here's the Stripe Checkout integration guide for Rails for example: https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/guides/rails https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/guides/rails
- jaf656s 12y agoStripe in general is not a great user experience for non-developers. Clicking "Learn More" links, in many places, literally takes you to api documentation.
- pbreit 12y agoStripe inexplicably does not offer payment pages.
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- vamega 12y agoI'm a little confused as to whether their pay me transactions are subject to Stripe's fees or whether those are completely free.
- drewwilson 12y agoThanks for the discussion everyone one :) Glad you feel its worth talking about! A little history just for fun: - I launched: http://quixly.com http://quixly.com back in 2010 after a year in development. It was the first app i had seen that got rid of the idea of a shopping cart and let you pay URLs. - Then I launched Space Box in 2012. The goal was to make Stripe user friendly for the non-developer. - Plasso is now the first step in something bigger I want to tackle. It's my host desire to replace paypal... but i've got a ways to go. Still need to polish the selling tools on Plasso.. then attack the buyer's side of things. I've been at the digital delivery game since 2009 really, its fun, but a lot of work. I really love Plasso (obviously ;) and my favorite thing about it, which sheds light on it's future is the 'Pay Me' feature: http://plasso.co/drew@drewwilson.com http://plasso.co/drew@drewwilson.com have people pay you easy peasy. Soon to have bank & bit coin transfers! Anywho.. i hope this is the start of something big. We'll see.
- dabernathy89 12y agoThis is neat. What about selling something (like a premium WordPress plugin) that might have updates? Is there anyway to automatically notify or even deliver to previous customers?
- sogen 12y agoDoes it work in Mexico?
- jread 12y agoWish this had support for Amazon Payments and Paypal in addition to Stripe.
- starterblock 12y agoVery nice design, pretty easy to understand, and interesting. But without knowing the Plasso name (or Spacebox, for that matter), I need to especially trust an entity working in the payments space. Finding the "about" page was tedious and looking at "goods being sold on Plasso" led to several empty pages. Trust is paramount and I think you'd do well to convey that you're trustworthy. Good luck!
- gesman 12y agoWe support Stripe and charge some on top of it for convenience. It's like a delivery service that dusts the furniture after it's being delivered but doubles your delivery charges.
- derengel 12y agoIs it normal to use .co domains for non Colombian websites?
- eliteraspberrie 12y agoHelium charges 2%: https://gethelium.com/ https://gethelium.com/
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- ihatehandles 12y agoThat won't make too many people happy, especially considering they're targeting a market that may have never heard of Stripe or aren't technical enough to pick the Stripe fee inclusion. This doesn't strike much confidence either for a more serious investment, from their terms: Plasso reserves the right at any time, with or without notice, to modify or discontinue the Service, temporarily or permanently. But great all around, using this on a project soon
- zhte415 12y agoOn signing up, a request is made to connect to a Stripe account.