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Our weekend hack on GoCardless - HipBucket

20 points| tmcls | 14 years ago |hipbucket.com

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dutchbrit|14 years ago

I'd add a js form validation before posting to GoCardless if I were you.. But the rest looks good, nice and simple!

Bad request: ["Ad hoc authorization amount is not a number", "Amount is not a number"]

tmcls|14 years ago

Thanks for the heads up. Didn't get round to thinking about validation over the weekend. Will take a look this evening.

sniW|14 years ago

"HipBucket is the Doodle for online payments" was the first thing my eyes were drawn to, yet this sentence is difficult to process--maybe you could reword this? It looks like a cool idea though!

tmcls|14 years ago

Would "HipBucket - online payments inspired by Doodle" be better?

untog|14 years ago

I got incredibly excited about GoCardless... then I realised that it's UK only. Sigh. I guess the best we have in the US is Dwolla.

mattmanser|14 years ago

GoCardless is built on top of the Direct Debit scheme, which is pretty great.

Some details about DD here:

https://gocardless.com/direct_debit

Fun fact: Without scaremongering, as I'm certain it happens once in a blue moon, technically speaking someone can ask for some or all of their money back from their bank without even talking to you whenever they want and GoCardless will give it to them.

But as I said, blue moon. I did this to an electricity company that had failed to close my account 3 times, walked into the bank, asked for 6 months DD payments back. Bank did it with no quibbles.

tomblomfield|14 years ago

If you want to try this out, you can use bank account 55779911 & sort code 200000