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Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by anon373839 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @01:28AM (#36967259)
What's the best alternative? Currently working on an MVP and the horror stories have really put me off Stripe.
Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by villgax on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:02AM (#36967488)
LemonSqueezy
Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by jasfi on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:36AM (#36967725)
I second LemonSqueezy. They're a bit new, but are going in the right direction.

Stripe isn't available in my country anyway.

PayPal's dev experience was quite bad, but trying to do business with them was virtually impossible. I wasted a lot of time from both the dev and business angles.

Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by sschueller on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:07AM (#36967527)
Depends where you are. In Switzerland I would recommend https://payrexx.com/
Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by mgw on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:21AM (#36967626)
I would recommend Adyen. It‘s a bit like a European Stripe.

https://www.adyen.com/

Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by wilhil on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:35AM (#36967711)
Adyen didn't want to speak to us unless I could show ~£1M+ a year of transactions :(
Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by dabeeeenster on Friday August 04, 2023 @05:08PM (#37005914)
It's way higher than 1M a year.
Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by tedtimbrell on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:25AM (#36967646)
It’s a shame that Adyens tech is so rough in comparison but can definitely be worth it when it comes to fees
Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by deanc on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:26AM (#36967654)
I've integrated Adyen. It wasn't perfect but it wasn't as awful as Paypal.
Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by siwatanejo on Thursday August 03, 2023 @11:56PM (#36995324)
By "European" you mean it doesn't support American credit cards?
Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by dedene on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:32AM (#36967696)
For Europeans, Mollie works also very good! Very easy to integrate and the fees are reasonable.
Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by smca on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @07:04AM (#36969281)
Sorry to hear you've been put off. OP shared more detail which explains why they're unfortunately not supported on Stripe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36969049.

Feel free to always reach out to me know if you run into any issues.

Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by anon373839 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @07:26AM (#36969406)
It isn’t this OP specifically who has put me off. It’s the large number of people over the past few years who have reported issues such as Stripe holding their funds hostage for extended lengths of time, and their inability to get meaningful support through the official channels. (I’ve seen Edwin step in to HN threads to fix some of these cases, but the thought of relying on my problem hitting page 1 of Hacker News is very disconcerting.)
Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by smca on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @07:33AM (#36969443)
I hear you! Things are often posted here to try and overturn decisions that were correctly made (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34274059). We still keep an eye out to make sure we aren't making mistakes (because they can of course happen). Also, your post doens't need to hit HN to get meaningful support—we have 24x7 support via chat/phone/email and via @stripesupport on Twitter.

If your business doesn't fall into these categories I mentioned up top: regulatory compliance (money laundering or fraud), risk management (high rate of chargebacks or credit risk), or a violation of our restricted businesses agreement (get rich quick schemes, counterfeit goods, etc), then there is no legitimate reason why we wouldn't want to support your business.

Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by Brian_K_White on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:19AM (#36971265)
If the problem gets fixed, then by definition the decision was not correctly made.

The more you say in this thread the more you prove the critics points.

Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by smca on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:22AM (#36971298)
Not sure what you mean? OP's business isn't supported on Stripe. We communicated that to them two weeks ago, and reiterated that today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36969195

Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by Brian_K_White on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:33AM (#36971449)
Many times people do get the "decision overturned".

Pretending not to know this is yet more of what I mean by "the more you talk the worse Stripe looks"

Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by Trixter on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @12:17PM (#36972958)
OP has also told you in these threads that their business pivoted 2 months ago and no longer has adult content, so it is a valid business, yet was still banned.