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Stripe checkout is as easy to integrate & also well designed. Why bother to have yet another middleman in the game.

> Stripe checkout is as easy to integrate

Stripe Checkout requires that you know how to write and integrate code. Plasso does not. Of the 2.4 billion people with internet-connected computers, only 1-2 million can write code.

Seriously? It's as easy as integrating a tweet or like button into a blog post. Just copy & paste.

It's not copy and paste. Stripe Checkout does not even take a payment. All it does is present the UI to collect information, then returns a token to your page via a hidden form field. You must then write code to accept the form submission, use Stripe's API to make a charge against the token you received, send receipts and deliver the product.

Here's the Stripe Checkout integration guide for Rails for example: https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/guides/rails

Stripe in general is not a great user experience for non-developers.

Clicking "Learn More" links, in many places, literally takes you to api documentation.

Stripe inexplicably does not offer payment pages.

Not so inexplicable. They don't want to deal with end-user support. Same reason WePay canned all their end-user features.

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