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0 pointsngoel3611y ago0 comments

Just my two cents, but I see your point of view as well.

Why is it easy to circumvent your checkout flow? I would own the money transfer. If a developer doesn't want to build their own store, they probably don't want to bother implementing Stripe themselves either (and I probably have no clue how to estimate how many API calls I need).

Do your target customers really need payment gateway flexibility? The biggest drivers (I can think of) would be acceptance (by country & payment type) and transaction fee.

You don't have to call it 5%+, you could frame it as 1% + whatever the payment gateway you choose charges. That doesn't feel too egregious.

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jHoldroyd11y ago

You can use our checkout and order system but simply drop out the payment processing. Stripe makes this very easy and while people may not want to do it, by charging them a percentage of each transaction we're almost incentivizing them to do it.

We do need gateway options, each country is different and we're always being asked by users for support of X. I can promise you if we'd been able to stick only Stripe in and use it for everyone, we'd of done it. Our lives would have been so much easier!

And no we wouldn't call it 5% but the store owner would quickly do the math and that's where we'd end up. It's a hard sell, we ran the model past a number of people and it was almost universally rejected.

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