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75 pointsolivercameron21 comments

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.

Seems like you could work around this easily by adding it to the charge description.

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.

I'm pretty sure you can add any number of users to google analytics?

Can't have the same email in more than one Stripe account. Should make it so you can switch companies or something while logged in.

+1. Pretty annoying having to bounce around between accounts. But not that bad, can live with it for a little while longer! Great update today

We plan on adding that later, but it's a larger interface change we weren't ready to take on.

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?

More requested than international payments? When is this coming folks. We need it yesterday!!!

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.

Most countries don't have the same facilities as the US for creating payment-related businesses (financing, engineers with expertise in the field, close to the backbone visa/mc/banks, bureaucracy). It's probably much easier for an established company to bully their way in, than for one to grow locally.

That said, there are no excuses for trying, and there are exceptions; I sure hope they succeed. I'd love to work in an area as disruptive as this.

Stripe is a startup. Everything you wrote applied equally to Stripe two years ago.

In a year or two, a company formed today could be the equally formidable "established company" that is intimidating startups in your country.

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.

International payments are hard; here's an article from The Economist that describes some of the difficulties: http://www.economist.com/node/21554740.

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.

That's awesome.

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.

And every time you do it someone like me will point out that there are regulatory hoops they have to jump through for every new region :)

Canada is in beta so I'm assuming the UK is close behind...

Enough already, we get it. If there's such a pent up demand for such a service, why hasn't someone launched a similar service like, yesterday?

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.

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