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Any plans for Germany?

We definitely want to launch in Germany, but can't say much about timelines as yet

https://www.paymill.com/ is a German company and offers a Stripe-like service for Germany and a large number of other countries.

I was happy to give paymill a try as Stripe was not available in Europe. I even fixed their Java API (The pull request was accepted pretty swiftly)

However they lost me when they introduced a breaking change to the API without notification. We were still in the testing phase, but this is just a big NONO.

Also they did not react to request about getting a new contract because of a changed Bank account.

Happy to use stripe though.

You'll love how stripe handles breaking changes. Each time they make a breaking change, they create a new version of the API, and keep all customers pinned on the current one. Then, in the UI I can choose to switch to a new version of the API, and see a list of what's changed. Of the 10 API versions since I started, 2 might have broken something for me, but I can just ignore that until I find time to upgrade.

Stellar stuff!

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