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Stripe Push Notifications

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Very cool.

I get email notifications so this doesn't help me much.

I really wish there were iPhone/Android apps for Stripe. It could be as simple as receiving push notifications, looking up customers and issuing refunds. Doesn't need anything else.

There is Pay Pad by Billy Coover (https://www.pay-pad.com/alerts), which offers an iOS dashboard and push notifications.

I second PayPad - it covers pretty much every use case you'd have on the go.

Although the push notifications do get annoying, but I realize that's a good problem to have :)

I've got 99 problems but too many push notifications telling me I made money, ain't one. :)

I have a couple things in the works that can help reduce the number of push notifications you get. For example, for my account, I'm only getting notifications for charges over $100.

Ping me (billy@pay-pad.com) and do some wizardry behind the scenes for you if filtering on the dollar amount would help you out.

Thanks. Call me old fashioned but I don't feel comfortable giving a 3rd party access to my Stripe account.

1) Is it open source? or

2) Does Stripe have an API which grants read only access?

Either of those would make it worth checking out for me.

1) No it's not open-source but I do plan on opening up the Stripe lib I've built. 2) Negative. That would be a great option but some Pay Pad users want the full featured access, including accepting payments from the device.

I think about this a lot... For example, from Pay Pay, what would be the ramifications if someone stole your phone and had access to your Stripe account?

Well there are three things that are pretty scary. They could 1) add new charges to your existing customers 2) refund existing customers, and 3) get names and email addresses of your customers.

Could you prevent this? Yes. Password protect your phone. If it does get stolen, go to Stripe and revoke access to the third party apps.

But I want to do better. One user left a review the other day and asked for the ability to "lock" the app. I haven't decided yet how I'll implement it but I do want to add an "optional" locking feature that adds yet another layer of protection to your Stripe account from the Pay Pad app.

Ping me if you have any thoughts on alternatives.

In regards to #2: It's possible for people to create Connect applications that are read-only:

https://stripe.com/docs/connect/reference see the `scope` under request parameters.

Anyone have a linux version? I'd love this.

Awesome! I really appreciate this development. We've just recently switched over to stripe.

Also going to check out pay-pad.

Can't copy and paste into the password field... sad panda :(

Somewhat off-topic, but that Kudos thingy is pretty cool.

I think it's a pretty bad paradigm; I did it by accident and there was no way to undo it just to see what it was.

That's a horrible UI. I just tried it...since when does a mouse over indicate an "action"?

Oh well, I like Stripe so it's not entirely wasted.

Not everything has to be an overthought, standard UI element. It adds a bit of Fun, and is harmless in its consequences.

It would be nice to be able to undo though.

This is the worst kind of UI element of all. It's both overthought and not standard.

It's different. I don't understand how it's fun or useful.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

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