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   by jareau 14y ago

   founders at balancedpayments.com
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   by jareau 14y ago

   This is great! We (Balanced) open sourced our status page a few months ago, and received some really positive feedback from HN. How could we contribute our design as a template to statuspage.io? https://status.balancedpayments.com/ https
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   by jareau 14y ago

   Congrats from the Balanced team! You guys are doing great work.
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   by jareau 14y ago

   Paul, just sent you an email about Balanced Payouts ( https://www.balancedpayments.com/#payouts ) Nice job with Cropup!
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   GroupTalent's Payment Vendor Selection Process(blog.balancedpayments.com)

   1 points by jareau 14y ago|0 comments
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   by jareau 14y ago

   (Balanced employee) A lot of the successful marketplaces these days (e.g. Airbnb) have decided to fully intermediate the payments on their platform for security reasons. They find escrow is a way to promote trust and security on their platf
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   by jareau 14y ago

   Braintree is one of the best international payments option around (aside from PayPal, but PP has it's own host of issues). I'd also encourage you to check out WorldPay. WorldPay's underwriting process is pretty brutal from what I hear, but
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   by jareau 14y ago

   the ACH network gained widespread adoption when the gov't pushed a new banking standard down to ensure electronic disbursement of social security payments could be made. In this way ACH is a government sponsored payment infrastructure with
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   by jareau 14y ago

   Payswarm is a w3c affiliated universal payment standard. It hasn't taken off yet, but is a pretty compelling concept. http://payswarm.com/ http://www.w3.org/community/webpayments/
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    by jareau 14y ago

    What specific shopping cart integrations are you interested in seeing?
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    by jareau 14y ago

    for Nick Kishfy: I'd be curious what you think of Balanced's product development strategy: We have an undisputed product leader (our CEO), but we got so much demand for a feature (ACH debits) that we built it, not exactly as our customers w
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    RESTful, white-label ACH API by Balanced (YC W11)(blog.balancedpayments.com)

    2 points by jareau 14y ago|0 comments
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    by jareau 14y ago

    congrats!! happy to be working with you guys
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    by jareau 14y ago

    We'd like to expand outside of the US as well. We're discussing that topic here. Please let us know what you think: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/23
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    by jareau 14y ago

    Thanks for the feedback
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    by jareau 14y ago

    Sorry about this -- we didn't mean to be misleading. What do you think we could do to make our country limitations more prominent on our homepage? https://www.balancedpayments.com/#processing
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    by jareau 14y ago

    Thanks, Aaron!
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    by jareau 14y ago

    Thanks! We're hoping to blog about this soon. In the meantime, here's the github thread in which we discussed our new homepage design: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/264
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    by jareau 14y ago

    Thanks for the input. I tried to figure out a better name with the developer community, but couldn't come to anything we liked. Would you mind chiming in with your thoughts on our github issue: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issu
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    by jareau 14y ago

    (I'm a co-founder of Balanced) Here are some links to our docs: 1. Create a bank account: https://www.balancedpayments.com/docs/api?language=bash#crea... 1.1. You'll want to use balanced.js for this: https://www.balancedpayments.com/doc
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    by jareau 14y ago

    Why is bitcoin the one "true" alternative? If payment services like Balanced and Stripe solve most of the problems of PayPal (frozen accounts, pleasant APIs, etc) then why are they less worthy alternatives?
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    Startup Rebranding(blog.balancedpayments.com)

    1 points by jareau 14y ago|0 comments
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    by jareau 14y ago

    Check out balancedpayments.com. It's a processing, escrow, and payouts in one API. Also the founding team were early employees at Milo.com and worked on this specific issue of SKU level data cataloging & matching. disclosure: I'm a co-f
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    by jareau 14y ago

    Clickable links... TNW article: https://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/25/balanced-payments-... blog post: http://blog.balancedpayments.com/introducing-balanced-same-d... jsFiddle example: http://jsfiddle.net/KRFtB/
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    by jareau 14y ago

    Based on the comments above ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5259876 ), it seems like Bitcoin is just allowing merchants to kick the chargeback risk down the road to the Bitcoin exchanges.
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    by jareau 14y ago

    Yeah, the US banking system is pretty pitiful in general. We (Balanced) are trying to make it a little bit better by making ACH faster and easier to integrate, but we can't do much about reversals. [shameless plug] Example, checkout our ACH
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    by jareau 14y ago

    What if the buyer does a reversal of the bank transfer -- usually possible up to 60 days afterward. (I swear I'm not trolling. I'm new to bitcoin exchanges)
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    by jareau 14y ago

    What happens if bitcoins are purchased with a credit card? Who will be responsible for the chargeback in that case? Coinbase?
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    by jareau 14y ago

    Here's a link straight to the fraud data: http://blog.balancedpayments.com/death-taxes-chargebacks-bal...
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    by jareau 14y ago

    A single user attempting purchases with many different credit cards is fraudulent 100% of the time!!