Hacker News Reader

Great to see the acceleration of roll out of counties ! DE does have lower CC usage, but I think it will be more use for DE businesses operating internationally to accept in EUR & USD. btw. I threw together a handy tool for calculating the cost of a transaction. http://www.blackdog.ie/stripe/

edit : clarity

View on HN

Nice calculator; but it misses the currency conversion costs. You can't get $9.46 as a UK merchant - you get paid in £GBP and they add another 2% from mid-market rate - so $9.27 would be more accurate.

Thanks.

Stripe.com says Charges made in a currency for which you haven't connected a bank account will be converted to your default currency. A 2% fee applies for currency conversion, and all fees are calculated in the currency we transfer to you.

So you can avoid it by having an USD / EUR account. Or you have to pay this 2% fee. I will add a note to the page.

Not really; they only send USD via ACH currently (don't support wire transfer) so as a UK merchant there is no way to actually get paid $USD even if you have a $USD bank account.

Completely off-topic - but why does a consultancy company in Munich have a .ie domain? :-)

Guessing: "black doggie"?

Because I'm Irish.

Good .de or .com domains are not exactly easy to get these days without paying ridiculous amounts of money to some domain squatter...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com