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tdevito | 5 years ago

Stripe all the way! They have the best infrastructure and security, you can build out any payments system with their APIs and now they even have treasury-as-a-service to build your own bank. Elon and Peter Thiel were early investors, I can't imagine any company catching up at this point.

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gingerlime|5 years ago

We’re using Stripe and super happy in general. But they don’t cover PayPal (which lots of our users need), and also recently added 0.5% charge for all subscriptions [0]. Previously it was included. They definitely added value over time, but I would expect them to raise prices as well over time. Also their support, while still great overall, can be w bit patchy and much slower than before (from our own anecdotal experience).

I’m curious about the experience of others with chargebee etc as a layer that potentially lets you “swap” Stripe with something else. Is it worth it?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25072783

colesantiago|5 years ago

Thanks for this, seems Stripe is the way to go, I'm sure that Stripe has no issues with selling worldwide.

One thing I keep hearing is Stripe does not handle 'VAT' and all those tax stuff but not sure if I need it though.

Is this still an issue with Stripe?