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amfeng

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Builds things at @Stripe. Passionate about bagels and usually eats too many vita-gummies.

I'm @amfeng on Twitter. (:

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amfeng··on Stripe Corporate Card
Confirmed above!
amfeng··on Stripe Corporate Card
Hi there! There is no minimum spend requirement to take advantage of the AWS credits. They are promotional credits and will eventually expire; see Amazon's terms: https://aws.amazon.com/awscredits/.
amfeng··on Stripe Corporate Card
We're working on it! (;
amfeng··on Stripe Corporate Card
We love the idea of having roles for spending controls. It's not currently part of the product, but we're planning to work on this very soon!
amfeng··on Stripe Corporate Card
Thank you! Fixed. (:
amfeng··on Stripe Corporate Card
Your business doesn't need to be incorporated to apply. Sole props are welcome! It's worth noting that the personal liability changes, though: the individual behind the sole prop will be personally responsible for charges on their account.
amfeng··on Stripe Corporate Card
(Amber from Stripe here. For folks following along, we're talking about the "Additional Benefits" section on the page.)

Anything that says "cash back" is automatically applied to your card spending and for both new and existing customers. For everything else, we'll give you a discount code to type into the partner's site directly!

amfeng··on Stripe Corporate Card
We love working with you. <3
amfeng··on Stripe Corporate Card
Right now, you pay through a linked bank account. We are planning to let you pay from your balance in the future, though. (Most of our early users preferred the former.)
amfeng··on Stripe Corporate Card
(Amber from Stripe here.) We're definitely planning to expand to other countries—this is just the start.
amfeng··on Move Fast, Don't Break Your API
Hi! OP here.

This actually works out okay for most of our libraries. For the ones that can support it (Ruby, Python, etc), we don't hardcode the properties for any resources and instead generate objects on-the-fly when you make an API request.

In the $1 example, the libraries will just construct a Charge object without the `amount` property, since it wasn't returned in the API response.

You're right that it isn't perfect for other languages, though. We're working on making our versioning story better in our docs, libraries, webhooks, etc. (:

amfeng··on Stripe and Apple Pay
Hi! We only prefill your email address if you're logged into your Stripe account while looking at that page. Hope that clarifies things.
amfeng··on Dwarf Fortress 0.40.01
My favorite explanation of DF:

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/images/4/40/FunComic.png

amfeng··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)
(Sorry about the late reply!)

Not generally, but we'd definitely be willing to take a look if you want to send something in! (:

amfeng··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)
Stripe! We're hiring engineers in San Francisco and remotely within US timezones. REMOTE and H1B welcome.

We're increasing online commerce by making payments (and building an online business generally) way easier.

See [1] for an overview of the challenges we're working on, or check out [2] for a description of our interview process. Apply by following the instructions on our jobs page [3] (please indicate that you saw this post).

Also feel free to ping me at amber@stripe.com if you're thinking about applying but have any questions!

[1] http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/What-engineering-problem... [2] http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/What-is-the-engineering-... [3] https://stripe.com/jobs

amfeng··on Stripe: Marketplaces
We've actually got a private beta in the works. (:

I'm happy to give you access if you'd like to try it out -- just email me at amber@stripe.com.

amfeng··on Stripe adds metadata to API
We're working on it (multiple subscriptions)! (:
amfeng··on Introducing Stripe UK
Cake in the office is a great thing to be distracted by. (:
amfeng··on Introducing Stripe UK
Right -- those are per-charge, not per-day.
amfeng··on Introducing Stripe UK
Hey, charge responses now return a reference to a balance transaction (which represents what you'll actually be paid in).

You can auto expand the balance transaction upon charge creation by passing expand[]=balance_transaction, or you can retrieve the balance transaction directly: https://stripe.com/docs/api#retrieve_balance_transaction.

amfeng··on Card management API
Makes sense.

What would the ideal behavior be if your customer updates their default card? Should the recurring billing continue chugging along with the card it was created with, or use the new card instead?

amfeng··on Card management API
You can use your default card for once-off charges as well (just don't specify a card ID when making a charge with a customer).

You're right that you can't use a separate card for subscriptions yet -- we just use the customer's default card. We'd love to hear your feedback on this though (feel free to ping me at amber@stripe.com)!

amfeng··on Send payouts with Stripe
Hm, that's interesting.

What OS/browser are you on? (Feel free to email me at amber@stripe.com as well.)

amfeng··on Send payouts with Stripe
If our current payouts schedule isn't working for you, we'd be happy to help out. Feel free to ping me at amber@stripe.com.
amfeng··on Send payouts with Stripe
Yep -- this is something we're really interested in doing as well.
amfeng··on Send payouts with Stripe
Which parts of the dashboard in particular? Would love to hear your feedback at amber@stripe.com!
amfeng··on Send payouts with Stripe
Your business name, along with the transfer statement descriptor you specify (though this varies by bank).
amfeng··on Send payouts with Stripe
Yep! https://stripe.com/docs/api#balance
amfeng··on Send payouts with Stripe
It's a test-mode API call, so I'm sadly not getting any money from this. (:
amfeng··on Send payouts with Stripe
1) You should be able to pass in "disputed=true" to the charge listing call: GET https://api.stripe.com/v1/charges?disputed=true

2) Definitely. We'll keep that in mind!

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