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If you guys would do this exact same thing for PayPal, I would be so happy.

We'd be very happy to support PayPal in the same way. If any PayPal folks are reading, I'm patrick@stripe.com :-).

This is awesome, and you are awesome Patrick. Gotta have serious respect when the founder of Stripe, who I have to assume is quite a busy guy, shows up to personally respond to comments, encourage new features, and drop his personal email.

How much permission do you need from paypal to do this?

I suppose the main barrier is how annoying their UI is? And your ability to get a share of the interchange?

Tough to say. I know that Recurly has gone the approach of supporting any number of gateways (http://recurly.com/gateways/). Is there a technical limitation of Stripe that doesn't allow for this?

The stripe API is incompatible with Paypal's, you can't make arbitrary charges on paypal's API.

I was under the impression PayPal does allow charges with their Direct Payment API (i.e. Payments Pro). Are you specifically referring to the fact you have to be redirected to their site for login to do so?

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/paypal-payments-pr...

Seriously PayPal, get on this. I just asked for the same thing in the comments further down. We've got an international base of clients asking for PayPal support and we're using Stripe. Rather than force us into two flows on our end, work with Stripe so we can just utilize them and you collect $$.

Please make that happen! If I never have to deal with the PayPal API again I would be very happy.

Any chance you be rolling out support for New Zealand... we sell heaps to China!

+1 NZ curiosity.

I would also love to use Stripe in NZ. The NZ market really doesn't have any good alternatives.

and dwolla please, with its lower overhead? :)

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