Does anyone know if this is going to be available via the standardised Web Payments API? [1] (support being worked on by Chrome [2] and Microsoft Edge [3]) That way web developers won't need to build different implementations for different platforms.<p>[1]: <a href="https://web-payments.org/specs/#transactions" rel="nofollow">https://web-payments.org/specs/#transactions</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yelPlCVZLEE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yelPlCVZLEE</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/02/03/2016-platform-priorities/" rel="nofollow">https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/02/03/2016-platform...</a>
Another solid product page by Stripe. Simple, elegant, fast, responsive. For example, the "demo video" isn't actually a video - it's a composition of small images, DOM elements with CSS animation.
This is big news, conversions on mobile web have always been much lower than on desktop. I hope having a little less friction along the way will help improve things.
Although many merged features between macOS and iOS seem a bit gimmicky, this one is a <i>huge</i> step forward and it is a good example of how to implement a feature that is both convenient and secure.<p>Heck, I predict it will hugely increase online commerce because people will not feel iffy about handing over credit card details to random web sites; as long as the sites support pay by phone (where the card itself is not even shared), you will be able to fearlessly shop from a lot more web sites. In a way, Amazon should be a bit worried: given a decent cross-site shop-search mechanism and a much more reliable checkout experience, the whole web looks a lot more like one super-store.
It seems pretty likely now, with the addition of unlocking via the Apple Watch and using an iPhone to authenticate web payments on a Mac, that Apple will be adding a fingerprint sensor to a future MacBook.
I've been looking into payment services lately and it looks like very few have pricing schemes that work well if most of your income consists of micropayments of $1-3 or less. Stripe's pricing seems to be fairly standard, so I'll use it to illustrate my point: the fixed 30c cost on a $1 payment is 30%, which seems prohibitively expensive for this use case.<p>The only pricing scheme I've found so far that works adequately for my use case seems to be Paypal's Micropayments pricing of 5% + 5c: <a href="https://www.paypal.com/ca/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees" rel="nofollow">https://www.paypal.com/ca/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees</a><p>Although I've heard enough horror stories about Paypal on the merchant side that I'm a bit hesitant to rely on it as my only payment processor.<p>I'd appreciate it if anyone here can share their experience with handling micropayments and the services they used to process them.
Two features that I am bumfuzzled weren't in Apple Pay from day one:<p>1. The ability to use Apple Pay for e-commerce transactions
2. The ability for any iPhone/iPad to accept Apple pay<p>The idea that you can only use Apple Pay physically always felt a bit limiting, and iPhone and iPads are becoming a standard PoS device. Supporting acceptance of payments natively on these devices seems like a no-brainer.
Sorry if this is off-topic, but I've been wondering this for a long time now: is it just me or does it seem like a lot more risky to type out your credit card info on every site that supports Stripe?
only support for Safari on touch-id enabled devices. doubt Apple will provide API or any other x-platform support. most impactful for mobile commerce sites without strong App or App traffic.
I'll deal with anyone except stripe.<p>Shopify is promoting drop shipping. They even push their shopify payments powered by stripe: <a href="https://www.shopify.com/payment-gateways" rel="nofollow">https://www.shopify.com/payment-gateways</a><p>Only one problem. Their terms and conditions strictly prohibit drop shopping. <a href="https://stripe.com/us/prohibited-businesses" rel="nofollow">https://stripe.com/us/prohibited-businesses</a><p>It's there number - 45. Shipping or forwarding brokers.<p>When emailed, they say of course it's not allowed you must choose another payment processor. But having quizzed my local circle, I know of many drop shippers who are using shopify payments.<p>I even emailed stripe and they said, sadly drop shipping is not accepted. But they did not say why.<p>Drop shipping with Shopify is being heavily promoted right now in Internet Marketing circles. Here is one such product that was launched recently: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnp4TnFaVJM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnp4TnFaVJM</a><p>It's all about Shopify and Drop shipping and he's using their own payment processor. You guessed it, powered by stripe.<p>So what's going on here then?<p>Are stripe allowing drop shipping when they turn a blind eye to it?<p>I really wanted to use them, now using a competitor.