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You can make live charges as soon as you activate your account at https://manage.stripe.com/account/details

Well, we've taken a live payment from a live credit card...

I'm in the UK too, tested it with a CC and it worked fine, recurring payment actually came out of the account last week. Worked a treat!

Nope I'm pretty sure you can accept normal payments (I'm in the UK BETA and I can.) Make sure you've verified your account and added a bank account :-)

I can't see anywhere to add a bank account, and activate account only lists US & Canada which is stopping me activating it. Am I on the wrong beta?

Time to drop Stripe an email I think!

You have to click the invite email and attach your account rather than just going to the panel.

If you can only see US and Canada your account isn't beta activated, when this happened to me I emailed support and they responded with a new beta key within the hour.

Stripe really is great, it's easy to implement onsite & doing away with merchant accounts. The first site I built with it has been happily taking live orders for over a week with no problems.

Hey Tom, if you want to chat about Stripe implementation we should use it as an excuse to pop down to the Sussex Arms ;)