News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Kickstarter switches to Stripe.

Re:Kickstarter switches to Stripe by smackfu on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @12:55PM (#8845833)
I'm surprised Kickstarter needs a payments partner at all. They are a pretty big business.

In fact, I think they already did charges directly for non-US backers.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Kickstarter switches to Stripe by stepstep on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @02:20PM (#8846349)
Processing credit card transactions is a hard enough problem that it rarely makes sense for any non-payments company to do it themselves. Dropbox and Airbnb use Braintree (a Stripe competitor) for payments, and they are both much bigger than Kickstarter. Even Twitter and Facebook have been known to use Stripe for various products, and they are obviously much bigger than Kickstarter as well.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Kickstarter switches to Stripe by jamtur01 on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @03:42PM (#8847013)
Non-US projects already use Stripe. This moves means both US and non-US projects will use Stripe.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Kickstarter switches to Stripe by jamtur01 on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @03:41PM (#8847003)
Non-US projects already use Stripe. This moves means both US and non-US projects will use Stripe.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Kickstarter switches to Stripe by jamtur01 on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @03:37PM (#8846952)
Non-US projects already use Stripe. This moves means both US and non-US projects will use Stripe.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Kickstarter switches to Stripe by jamtur01 on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @03:37PM (#8846946)
Non-US projects already use Stripe. This moves means both US and non-US projects will use Stripe.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Kickstarter switches to Stripe by jamtur01 on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @03:37PM (#8846944)
Non-US projects already use Stripe. This moves means both US and non-US projects will use Stripe.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Kickstarter switches to Stripe by jamtur01 on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @03:29PM (#8846796)
Non-US projects already use Stripe. This moves means both US and non-US projects will use Stripe.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Kickstarter switches to Stripe by jamtur01 on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @03:28PM (#8846780)
Non-US projects already use Stripe. This moves means both US and non-US projects will use Stripe.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Kickstarter switches to Stripe by jamtur01 on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @03:28PM (#8846779)
Non-US projects already use Stripe. This moves means both US and non-US projects will use Stripe.
[ Parent | on HN ]