I find it strange that everytime I read something about payments in Europe it's about credit cards. I don't know anybody here in Germany that uses credit cards as their main way for payment, most people I know don't even own a credit card.
If you don't offer direct debit or wire transfer I won't buy anything from you.
Well my experience with braintree is that if your business model is innovative enough they won´t take the risk to process your payments (told personally by a braintree representative in a phone conversation, after a brief explanation of our business model). At least they are very kind, and they´ll tell you before hand, so you don´t have to waste time with all the legal paraphernalia.
A pity because the API seems really fast to implement and well thought.<p>Respecting Paymill... well we are not going to put data on the hands of the Samwer brothers right away(just in case...).<p>edit: typo.
Author here. Are there any other important payment solutions we should be looking out for (available in Europe, Belgium) that I forgot to mention in the blog?
Another interesting discussion on this topic: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5091069" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5091069</a> (not limited to recurring payments)