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Re:Stripe Billing by pokemongoaway on Thursday April 05, 2018 @04:25PM (#16768526)
So as a customer of yours who still has to use PayPal because so many Europeans have "bank cards..." What do you recommend? Using both PayPal & Stripe? PayPal is a work around because, for example, a US Stripe account can't take EU "bank cards" (which account for about 1/3 of payments coming from the EU, as I see in Stripe's error logs) or non-US ACH.
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Re:Stripe Billing by scrollaway on Thursday April 05, 2018 @06:32PM (#16769366)
> a US Stripe account can't take EU "bank cards"

Wait, what? What do you mean? I'm not seeing this at all.

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Re:Stripe Billing by pokemongoaway on Friday April 06, 2018 @07:38AM (#16772432)
Yes, like StavrosK said, for anyone who has significant customers outside of the US - there are lots of countries that use various types of "bank cards." Netherlands iDEAL is fairly well-known, but I get lots of customers with Visa & Mastercard "bank cards" in Italy, Germany, etc - all whose payments fail on Stripe (but they try anyway, not realizing theirs is not a typical "credit/debit" card).
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Re:Stripe Billing by scrollaway on Friday April 06, 2018 @11:07AM (#16773785)
Right yeah -- that's actually one of my main issues with Stripe right now. Hopefully they add it soon.
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Re:Stripe Billing by StavrosK on Thursday April 05, 2018 @10:00PM (#16770365)
I think he means countries like the Netherlands, where they have some weird system of non-credit/debit cards.
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