Re:New version of Stripe Checkout
by stickfigure on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @12:49PM
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Before PayPal bought Braintree, they were a separate company that provided the same service (cards & paypal as an option). Presumably they did this using PayPal's APIs - I'm familiar enough with them to think it should be possible for anyone. However, those APIs are horrible and PayPal's technology platform is a trainwreck, so I can understand why they might not be rushing it out.
Re:New version of Stripe Checkout
by manuelhuez on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @02:55PM
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You're 100% right, what Braintree does can be done using PayPal's API directly, even what Braintree calls their "in-context" PayPal payments. This is pretty much exactly what we've done at https://processout.com (shameless plug!)
The APIs may be available, but I'd expect the terms of use of those APIs will say something about not using them for competing businesses or some language that could be used to exclude Stripe from being able to offer it as an integration.
There are rumours that Stripe _are_ working on PayPal integration, but I expect this would only launch with PayPal's blessing through some business deal, not just from Stripe's work.
I expect this is not Stripe's decision. PayPal own Braintree, a Stripe competitor, whos unique selling point is that they also support PayPal through one API. I suspect PayPal want to keep this distinction.
Without support from PayPal, I'd expect the most that Stripe could do is implement a way for you to provide extra non-Stripe payment option buttons, which would just redirect to some URL provided up front. Not a great developer experience, and not much of a UX improvement.