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Re:Twilio Positions Itself for an IPO After Logging $100M in... by rtpg on Friday February 20, 2015 @10:10PM (#9084510)
There are things that are basically impossible to do with PayPal until fairly recently that were extremely easy to do with Stripe. There's also the massssssive headaches from dealing with PayPal's API (message errors with no documentation) and PayPal's checkout flow can be a barrier.
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Re:Twilio Positions Itself for an IPO After Logging $100M in... by debaserab2 on Saturday February 21, 2015 @04:14AM (#9085126)
Hmmm. I worked with the Paypal API a long time before Stripe even existed. What was impossible with Paypal's API that was possible with Stripes?
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Re:Twilio Positions Itself for an IPO After Logging $100M in... by StavrosK on Saturday February 21, 2015 @06:33AM (#9085312)
I haven't worked with the PayPal API extensively, but Stripe does a lot of customer management, subscription management, itemized invoicing, etc built-in, which I don't think PayPal supports.

Personally, I think any difference in price pays for itself in developer time, unless you have billions of dollars in yearly revenue. The PayPal API always makes me want to gouge my eyes out, whereas the Stripe API is so pleasing to use that I'm looking for reasons to integrate Stripe into things.

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Re:Twilio Positions Itself for an IPO After Logging $100M in... by debaserab2 on Saturday February 21, 2015 @11:21AM (#9085886)
PayPal supports all of those: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/

You don't need billions in revenue to recoup the cost of a few extra developer hours. Pay pals new REST API doesn't even look that hard to use, either (I've only used their older APIs)

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Re:Twilio Positions Itself for an IPO After Logging $100M in... by rtpg on Saturday February 21, 2015 @10:15PM (#9088051)
That stuff is recent and is US only. Stripe is expanding out to other countries
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