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Re:Balanced payments is shutting down by tbrooks on Friday March 13, 2015 @06:21PM (#9200457)
pc, it appears that the Stripe client libraries do not support Balanced-like features.

i.e. ACH debits, marketplaces, etc.

Migrating over to Stripe sounds great, but having these libraries updated with the proper endpoints seems like a must.

Re:Balanced payments is shutting down by bkrausz on Friday March 13, 2015 @06:33PM (#9200525)
Our bindings actually do support ACH debits. The "source" parameter is a universal param for any kind of incoming payment mechanism. See https://stripe.com/blog/unifying-payment-types-in-the-api for details.

Specifically, for those in the ACH beta you can put a customer's bank account token in that field to charge their bank account.

Re:Balanced payments is shutting down by tbrooks on Friday March 13, 2015 @06:38PM (#9200546)
Will I have the ability to debit ACH w/o verification?

(I currently have this ability with Balanced. Also have very low fraud, chargeback, etc.)

Re:Balanced payments is shutting down by tbrooks on Friday March 13, 2015 @07:06PM (#9200667)
Ahh, you're right.

To make an ACH debit, you'd need to verify a bank account beforehand. And I don't think client libraries support a `bank account resource` w/o curling.

Maybe I'm missing something.

Re:Balanced payments is shutting down by mintplant on Friday March 13, 2015 @07:45PM (#9200803)
If you don't get it working on Stripe, maybe you'll have better luck with WePay. They're a marketplace payments service like Balanced was, and they support ACH payments.

https://www.wepay.com/developer/facilitate_withdrawals/settl...

https://www.wepay.com/developer/facilitate_withdrawals/embed...

Disclaimer: I haven't actually used them myself. YMMV.

Re:Balanced payments is shutting down by coconutrandom on Friday March 13, 2015 @08:07PM (#9200873)
I have used them, stick with Stripe.
Re:Balanced payments is shutting down by billclerico on Saturday March 14, 2015 @01:41AM (#9201660)
WePay cofounder here. Would love to better understand why you say that so we can improve. [email protected]
Re:Balanced payments is shutting down by pbreit on Friday March 13, 2015 @09:42PM (#9201206)
WePay doesn't do ACH debits AFAIK.
Re:Balanced payments is shutting down by vasusen on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:59PM (#9201503)
WePay engineer here. We support ACH debits. Checkout the live example with "Pay with Bank Account" option here - https://www.wepay.com/developer/process_payments/iframe-chec...
Re:Balanced payments is shutting down by pbreit on Saturday March 14, 2015 @12:25AM (#9201553)
I was thinking via API.
Re:Balanced payments is shutting down by HalfLifeDM on Saturday March 14, 2015 @11:05AM (#9202841)
I know that Balanced was using Forte for their ACH processing. You might check them out.

https://www.forte.net/devdocs/api_resources/forte_api.htm

Re:Balanced payments is shutting down by sluzorz on Saturday March 14, 2015 @11:16AM (#9202871)
This is absolutely not true
Re:Balanced payments is shutting down by HalfLifeDM on Saturday March 14, 2015 @11:31AM (#9202933)
Ask Balanced to confirm for yourself. We are Forte are very saddened to see them go, but will continue to support them and their ACH processing until the day that they turn out the lights.