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It pains me to see all this awesome stuff (CTF, Apps, improvements) from Stripe all the time here on HN only to be reminded that I can't use it and that my only actual option is Paypal or really expensive and cumbersome merchant accounts.

I hope Stripe, Braintree or another 2.0 payment solution will launch here in Norway soon.

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Didn't Braintree just expand to a lot of countries: https://www.braintreepayments.com/tour/international

I signed up for the rollout to Australia, but it requires a merchant account with Westpac (!) first.

(It almost defeats the point of using it at all over one of the existing merchant-account-requiring solutions here.)

Just curious--how or where did you hear about Braintree coming to Australia? And do you know if it's available publicly? It's something I'd love to look at (even with the Westpac account requirement) I can't seem to find anything on it.

https://www.braintreepayments.com/tour/international

(And as zhoutong correctly pointed out above, it's NAB, not Westpac.)

I thought it was a merchant account with NAB? (According to the application forms I have received.)

AFAIK only NAB has multi-currency acquiring solution at the moment.

It seems that Braintree's pricing isn't attractive at all, so I'll probably still go for eWay.

Ah! Sorry, I misremembered. You're right, it's NAB.

I've been talking to a mob called pin.net.au who are aiming to do in Australia what Stripe does.

Have you taken a look at FastSpring? A nice, flexible system for recurring billing and one-off payments. They act as a reseller too which makes for simple accounting as you only have one direct customer: them.

We've been using them for several years, including for recurring payments on an SaaS kind of system for the last year. I have little interest in Stripe's UK arrival because I can't see anything it would offer for us that FastSpring doesn't already offer. Maybe a slightly lower fee % but that has minimal sway next to a good system that converts well and takes minimal time to configure.

Let me know if I'm missing the point, as to be honest I don't really understand all the Stripe excitement.

Thanks for the tip. The payment provider we're currently using is expensive and their order pages take between three and ten seconds to load. And since Stripe probably won't come to Germany any time soon, this might be an alternative.

I wonder why I've never heard of FastSpring before, even though I head my eyes open for information like this for a long while now.

Ditto from Canada.

I signed up to be notified when Stripe was available in Canada and received a welcome email maybe a week later.

https://stripe.com/global

Really? You actually register for a Canadian account?

I told them my country was Canada. The welcome email they sent me included a link with an invitation code.

In the dashboard it asks me to give a Tax ID and SIN and lets me charge either USD or CAD.

Thanks for the info. I just went on their support chat room to let them know and a few milliseconds (literally) I received an invite! Sweet

i signed up for the same thing but no email. have you successfully signed up for a full account?

Why don't you use PayEx? /s

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