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Clearly you have not dealt with other payment gateways. Regardless, news about payment gateways is interesting for developers because we have to implement them. And some of us are entrepreneurs and we have to choose a payment gateway to get money from our customers.

If you don't like Stripe articles then don't upvote them.

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I have implemented a few payment gateways, none were particularly taxing for even a novice developer.

It takes a few weeks to get a merchant account for a local provider. For an international provider like Braintree it takes a lot more documentation. AFAIK this is quicker with Stripe. Most local payment gateways here in Norway have a shitty API (many with SOAP. One with versioning like this: chargev1(), chargev2() ). But hard to implement? No, but annoying and takes more time than Stripe. Stripe is clearly a better technical solution for developers. And pricing. There might be cheaper options (particularly with higher volumes). But most options I have looked at have many different price plans and have a monthly cost. Stripe is pay as you go.

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