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Re:GoCardless (YC S11) Launches PayLinks, A Bitly For Payments by middus on Thursday May 31, 2012 @04:36AM (#4047017)
Looks a lot like https://gumroad.com to me, but without the need to have a credit card.
Re:GoCardless (YC S11) Launches PayLinks, A Bitly For Payments by dabeeeenster on Thursday May 31, 2012 @05:06AM (#4047097)
We are using this and it's brilliant. The only thing missing (which I'm told is coming) is a user-definable Thank-You url. Without it we can't finish our goal funnel tracking.

But the integration is crazy simple - took us 1 minute to get set up.

Re:GoCardless (YC S11) Launches PayLinks, A Bitly For Payments by hirokitakeuchi on Thursday May 31, 2012 @05:16AM (#4047130)
That is coming very very soon!
Re:GoCardless (YC S11) Launches PayLinks, A Bitly For Payments by pbreit on Thursday May 31, 2012 @09:58AM (#4048036)
Speed of setup is certainly nice and makes for an excellent demo but over time is almost totally irrelevant. As you note, far more important for a service to actually solve customer needs. If it had taken a half hour, a day or a week to set up but delivered increased sales, it would be much more compelling.

Doubly so for this bank transfer-based service which is already quite slow compared to credit card based services.

Re:GoCardless (YC S11) Launches PayLinks, A Bitly For Payments by rayhano on Thursday May 31, 2012 @04:21AM (#4046974)
Great idea, but the implementation seems to lack UX thought. So many clicks to sign up and know what you're actually signing up to.

A quick user feedback session could help fix this. I assume this is a rival feature to Gumroad's approach in the States?

Re:GoCardless (YC S11) Launches PayLinks, A Bitly For Payments by rbn on Thursday May 31, 2012 @10:23AM (#4048133)
You are %100 correct. I was going to use Dwolla as my app's payment processor but their signup processes is horrible. So I opted for stripe.
Re:GoCardless (YC S11) Launches PayLinks, A Bitly For Payments by rayhano on Sunday June 03, 2012 @11:23AM (#4060950)
Are Dwolla and Stripe really comparable? One reduces the cost of payments and the other is a pretty UI just for card based transactions.
Re:GoCardless (YC S11) Launches PayLinks, A Bitly For Payments by josscrowcroft on Thursday May 31, 2012 @06:47AM (#4047359)
This looks fantastic - hope to try it out soon.

Worldwide expansion of a simple service like this would be amazing.

Re:GoCardless (YC S11) Launches PayLinks, A Bitly For Payments by karl_freeman on Thursday May 31, 2012 @05:10AM (#4047111)
Nice to see Groupay coming back to its roots with this. Good work guys.