Ask HN: how do you handle preorders (not charging CC until later)? Any gotchas?

Re:Ask HN: how do you handle preorders (not charging CC unti... by podingx on Sunday May 19, 2013 @04:35AM (#5732266)

Stripe handles this really well. We've been using them to power the payments piece for trycelery.com. No big gotchas so far based on my experience. If you wait too long to charge, you may run into an expired credit card.

I'd say the most important thing is to clearly communicate shipping/fulfillment timing to your customers, so they know what to expect.

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Re:Ask HN: how do you handle preorders (not charging CC unti... by positivejam on Sunday May 19, 2013 @12:22PM (#5733305)

PS: just checked out trycelery, too. Looks very cool! Since I've never run a site with preordering before, I'm not sure which features I'll need or not, but I plan to revisit your service when I get to that point in development.

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Re:Ask HN: how do you handle preorders (not charging CC unti... by positivejam on Sunday May 19, 2013 @11:59AM (#5733223)

Cool, exactly what I was hoping to find out. Thanks for the insight!

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Re:Ask HN: how do you handle preorders (not charging CC unti... by podingx on Monday May 20, 2013 @04:39AM (#5736595)

Glad I could help. Feel free to shoot me an email (in my HN profile) if you have any specific questions.

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