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Re:Ready-made Stripe Checkout for freelancers by Cenk on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @10:31AM (#17021122)
These services that are layers on top of Stripe really rub me the wrong way. I’m sure it’s useful to many people who want to take credit card payments but don’t know how to code up a Stripe integration themselves, but I really dislike the idea of having another middle-man between the user and Stripe.
Re:Ready-made Stripe Checkout for freelancers by DavideP86 on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @01:23PM (#17022697)
Hi Cenk, Thanks for your comment. In order to integrate your own Stripe Checkout, don't you need a website? If so, you're going to have different middle-men like a hosting provider, domain provider, maybe a developer etc.. You're going to pay these services on a monthly basis, and theoretically just to get some payments. It's an alternative, and maybe a lot cheaper and faster than the one above. What do you think?
Re:Ready-made Stripe Checkout for freelancers by amelius on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @12:32PM (#17022239)
But note that, strictly speaking, Stripe itself is also a middle-man.
Re:Ready-made Stripe Checkout for freelancers by dbielik on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @10:37AM (#17021167)
I agree, and they've also built this themselves for people who don't know how to embed/integrate it.
Re:Ready-made Stripe Checkout for freelancers by WhiteOwlLion on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @12:44PM (#17022354)
i don't know what kind of freelancer you are... but even a non-techie should be able to create their own checkout page using stripe tools. seriously, it is not hard
Re:Ready-made Stripe Checkout for freelancers by samb1729 on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @12:58PM (#17022487)
And yet Stripe decided it was worth the effort to make this easier for people. I doubt they invested engineering hours into an offering that no one asked for or needed.
Re:Ready-made Stripe Checkout for freelancers by norova on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @01:27PM (#17022743)
Just clarifying, this isn't a Stripe product.