This is nice, but I would really like to be able to assign people "developer" access to the account, giving them full read/write access to the Test area, but no access to the Live area or account settings.
I'm really surprised they didn't think of and implement that as part of this change.
It delights me to see how much polish Stripe put on everything they do. This is a basic feature, sure, but it seems as though it's been implemented extremely well. Even their blog announcement is extremely well-designed.
Stripe's attention to detail seems to permeate everything they do - from their homepage graphics to clear documentation. It's difficult not to compare this to PayPal, whose recent, much-trumpeted "redesign" only amounted to updating the front-facing portions of the site. It remains to be seen whether Stripe can keep this up as they scale, but it seems as though they've developed a great internal company culture that should give them a good shot at it.
Cool feature, pretty basic requirement for this type of app.
I'd really like a Brands feature (sub-businesses). In real life I have 1 LLC that runs 4 different non-competing brands. I want the brand name to show up on the CC statement, not the LLC name, and I don't want to have to activate 4 different Stripe accounts.
This is a simple feature, seeing it alone. But is something very painfull and security flaw to have only one email to manage all your accounts and products. I feel this especially in Google Analytics.
And I have to say that stripe is a hell of a company. I would love that something like they existed in Brazil.
Has anyone here implement something like this before with Rails?
- Can you recommend any libraries/material I should check out on the subject? (It's called RBAC right?)
- I'm in the middle of developing my own SaaS app that will need this functionality. Should I launch my MVP without it and then add it later, or is it a lot easier to add something this technical before going into production?
It's predictable that every Stripe-related post will have non-Americans asking when Stripe is coming to their country.
Less common or nonexistent are the comments where someone posts a link to the beta Stripe clone they are building to launch in their country. Do it, at worst you'll be acquisition bait.
This was more of a technical challenge, whereas, implementing international payments is beyond just technical and likely includes many legal hurdles and navigating many different policies. It has to be extremely difficult, otherwise, Stripe would have done it already.
The Stripe CEO was in Nairobi two days ago for a meetup at one of the startup incubators. This was the one question every dev had on their mind - the short answer, at least for those of us in Africa - is "don't hold your breath". I have to agree with runako on this one.
TL;DR The international interbank system was designed to move large lumps of money rather than a high speed trickle of micropayments. Additionally, fraud, already a big problem with online payments, is compounded by cross-border activity.
This is sort of a tangent, but why don't more people use Amazon FPS. I know it requires that the customer have an Amazon account (which many customers do have), but it is supported in many countries. You can at least have it has one of the payment options.
[+] [-] jader201|13 years ago|reply
I'm really surprised they didn't think of and implement that as part of this change.
[+] [-] connortomas|13 years ago|reply
Stripe's attention to detail seems to permeate everything they do - from their homepage graphics to clear documentation. It's difficult not to compare this to PayPal, whose recent, much-trumpeted "redesign" only amounted to updating the front-facing portions of the site. It remains to be seen whether Stripe can keep this up as they scale, but it seems as though they've developed a great internal company culture that should give them a good shot at it.
[+] [-] conductr|13 years ago|reply
I'd really like a Brands feature (sub-businesses). In real life I have 1 LLC that runs 4 different non-competing brands. I want the brand name to show up on the CC statement, not the LLC name, and I don't want to have to activate 4 different Stripe accounts.
[+] [-] callmeed|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] dudurocha|13 years ago|reply
And I have to say that stripe is a hell of a company. I would love that something like they existed in Brazil.
[+] [-] boucher|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] mikelbring|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] nestlequ1k|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] boucher|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] jellr|13 years ago|reply
- Can you recommend any libraries/material I should check out on the subject? (It's called RBAC right?)
- I'm in the middle of developing my own SaaS app that will need this functionality. Should I launch my MVP without it and then add it later, or is it a lot easier to add something this technical before going into production?
[+] [-] unknown|13 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] jkuria|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] runako|13 years ago|reply
Less common or nonexistent are the comments where someone posts a link to the beta Stripe clone they are building to launch in their country. Do it, at worst you'll be acquisition bait.
[+] [-] neovive|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] okal|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] JumpCrisscross|13 years ago|reply
TL;DR The international interbank system was designed to move large lumps of money rather than a high speed trickle of micropayments. Additionally, fraud, already a big problem with online payments, is compounded by cross-border activity.
[+] [-] buro9|13 years ago|reply
Now when are you coming to the UK with a beta?
And yes, I am going to bang on about this on every single Stripe related HN entry until it happens.
[+] [-] tomschlick|13 years ago|reply
Canada is in beta so I'm assuming the UK is close behind...
[+] [-] modarts|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] vdondeti|13 years ago|reply