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What countries would you like to see supported? (You can sign up in a number of European countries today: https://stripe.com/global.)

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For myself, Poland. I've also had clients in Italy and the Czech Republic make similar noises (although, I must confess, I know comparatively little about their local alternatives).

Ok, good to know -- thanks!

Could you please make a blog post about the difficulties involved in serving new countries? Obviously it's related to bullshit regulations, artificial barriers to entry and so on, but it would be lovely to know any specifics.

We've actually considered doing this. Why would you like to see it, out of curiosity? Just because it'd be interesting, or in order to better understand why we're taking so long? :-)

Both actually :)

+1 for this. I trust you're working hard on these problems, but can't fantom why it takes so long. I'm really curious about what bureaucratic mess is hidden under the hood of currencies.

> Just because it'd be interesting, or in order to better understand why we're taking so long? :-)

Both, but mostly the latter. It's been.. how many years since you started? And the whole damn world has wanted to use Stripe HOW bad? :P

.. So yeah. What's taking so long? Why aren't you everywhere already? Anywhere you go, there will be lots and lots of businesses just desperate to use Stripe, right? It would make sense for you to spread everywhere as soon as humanly possible, but you've always been strangely silent about what's keeping you from doing exactly that.

I know it all boils down to: "Because governments are making it difficult for us to start serving new countries". But I do want more details.

How about a generalised list of things you need to do for each country.

1) Decide country 2) Hire finance lawyer for that country 3) Deal with banks / APIs 4) Make applications to governments etc.

Give us some example timeline based on past experience etc for each step, maybe with some anecdotes when Stp X was particularly difficult /easy with country Y.

I'll second the Czech Republic - I've a client that would love it if you could - right now, they're Paypal only.

+1 for Poland (and the rest of Central Europe! Remove the obstacles - you'll be first from the West there instead of competing with others elsewhere in Europe(PayPal, etc.)

Not really: PayPal is there and so is SaaSy/FastSpring. (I'm currently using FastSpring from Czech Republic and would love to have the Stripe option.)

PayPal didnt really get much traction in PL. Never heard about FastSpring. There's a local alternative PayU, which is the most used option for payment integration.

What countries would you like to see supported?

How about all of EU countries?

That's the plan.

any time frame on this ?

Would love support for Denmark!

Seconded!

An alternative to www.nets.eu and PayPal would be great.

http://adyen.com/ and https://paymill.com/ are also available in Denmark (although it'd be nice to have Stripe, too).

South Africa. Almost an EU member. Probably.

Any chance of coming to Asia (specifically India). Payments are a pain here!

Cyprus here. We actually have a monopoly with only 1 credit card processor. Very old fashioned, no competition to speed up things.

the joys of being a small market...

Austria, Switzerland (both central europe, next to Germany)

South Africa please.

+1 for South Africa

I'd really like to see support for Mexico. Integrating with you is far better than the other only available option here.

Wish for latin america (I'm in colombia). We truly have it worse.

South Africa please.

Denmark.

how about Singapore?

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