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Re:Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020) by NetOpWibby on Monday April 20, 2026 @03:54AM (#47831465)
In my experience, you couldn’t just setup an account and start selling, you had to contact their sales team and they let you know if they want your business.

Stripe has no real competitor.

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Re:Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020) by lucrbvi on Monday April 20, 2026 @04:17AM (#47831569)
Mollie might be a direct competitor
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Re:Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020) by sumedh on Monday April 20, 2026 @04:44AM (#47831710)
Isnt Mollie Europe only?
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Re:Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020) by lucrbvi on Monday April 20, 2026 @04:56AM (#47831784)
Mollie seems to only provide services to business based in European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK [0], so yes?

[0]: https://help.mollie.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002116105-Can-I...

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Re:Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020) by andrewshadura on Monday April 20, 2026 @08:35AM (#47833372)
And they also have a minimum turnover limits. They rejected us as too small.
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Re:Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020) by zrn900 on Monday April 20, 2026 @05:03AM (#47831837)
Stripe is trialing a MoR solution (managed payments) right now.
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Re:Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020) by deaux on Monday April 20, 2026 @07:19AM (#47832721)
It has lots of competitors. They bought out LemonSqueezy exactly because it was a competitor that quickly gained a lot of mindshare.

Polar.sh is another one.

The thing you're talking about with Paddle is just checking you're not selling offline, physical stuff.

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Re:Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020) by NetOpWibby on Monday April 20, 2026 @01:14PM (#47837415)
Last I checked, Polar was using Stripe under the hood.

EDIT: Yup. Via their pricing page:

   Polar is currently built on Stripe, and we cover their 2.9% + 30¢ fee from ours. However, they impose a few additional fees for certain transactions that we need to pass on.
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