I wonder how much of Stripe success is due to their gorgeous UIs and overall design, I hate when people say "Design is nothing, content is what matters..." and I love when companies like Apple and Stripe demolish these stereotypes. Design is AS important as content, great content & features will be unnoticed if they are buried under outdated and unfriendly UI design.
I never have used a Stripe product (although always wanted to) nor will I have any need to in the near future but I will <i>always</i> click a new product announcement from them. They are just so beautiful and consistently so. Sometimes I feel like the design takes over the actual product announcement too. The discussion on HN is usually about how great their designers are. Anyway, this looks like another great, polished product from Stripe. They are unstoppable.
If any of the Stripe iOS engineers are here, just wondering what your rationale was for using a card based layout for the app? The alternative being the standard nav stack. Serious question.<p>Your card layout sure is beautiful and the animation is nice but how did you decide it was worth it given some of it drawbacks (users used to the standard nav stack, less screen real estate for content, etc).
If you search for "Stripe" in the iphone app store it is nowhere to be found. Among the results that do appear are "LoL Camera", "Fruit Shake", "Color Lines Free". Apple really needs to improve their app store search.
I think they may need to revisit the color scheme. Lead in text on left is pretty faint:<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/QNpr5rS.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/QNpr5rS.png</a><p>FF 38 on Windows
As always, product page announcements are gorgeous. But does anyone feel the web dashboard is severely limiting? For example, getting simple graphs like YTD, Last Month, This Quarter... etc currently it's all manual <a href="http://cl.ly/image/0y1I0Y1X450D" rel="nofollow">http://cl.ly/image/0y1I0Y1X450D</a><p>And ditto on simple KPIs/analytics e.g. % increase of new users this week vs last, ARPU, Q/Q... I know there are 3rd party services that focus solely on this but it just seems like such an easy add; am I missing it somewhere in dashboard or is this really not a priority?
Anybody have any idea what animation library they're using? Doesn't look to be CSS transitions and all their JS is compressed (rightfully so).
Awesome, the mobile app Stripe has needed for years is finally here. I'm most excited about push notifications (new customers, charges), and a quick overview of transactions on the go. There have been entire companies (successfully) built on just sending Stripe notifications, now it is native in a mobile app.
Cannot sign in the app after installing. No error messages. Nothing happened after clicking the Sign In button.<p>We've been using Stripe for a little more than half a year now. While the product and design is top-notch, the reliability of the service and speed of bug fixes could really use some work.
How convenient, since I <i>just</i> started using Stripe this past week :) Control -- the app I had been using -- seemed great, but I have to imagine this will trump, especially considering the amount of polish and attention to detail goes into every Stripe interface.
Looks great! It was only a matter of time.<p>I feel bad for all those third-party apps on the AppStore that probably do the same thing. They filled a niche before Stripe could build their own solution but now, will they just fade away to obscurity?
Just downloaded and tried the app. This is great for v1.0!<p>That being said, here's a bug report:<p>1) There's a typo in the "transfer details" card where it lists "adjustements"<p>2) Bitcoin payments don't show any info about the bitcoin transaction (or the fact that it's a bitcoin payment) in the payment details card.<p>3) The "payment details" card cuts off longer descriptions after about 30 characters<p>4) it would be nice to see logs via the app to track errors "on the go".
Nice, I've been secretly waiting for this, also because I knew that the design and usability would be convincing. Stripe delivers once again.<p>However I will have to stick to a third part competitor[1] for a while, until the following features are implemented (I imagine they are on the roadlist):<p>1. Some sort of app protection, e.g. a pin code
2. Multi account login<p>[1] <a href="http://paidhq.com/" rel="nofollow">http://paidhq.com/</a>
The perspective transform on the video really makes it look bad. Jaggies on the thin lines and text and tough to read. It's worse in Chrome than Safari, but still bad in either case: <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHE07a-XIAARlY4.png:large" rel="nofollow">https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHE07a-XIAARlY4.png:large</a><p>It detracts from an otherwise gorgeous page.
This is unlike Stripe but this landing page is totally broken in Chrome and Firefox on Android for me: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/axl4ogngkmdtc83/Screenshot_2015-06-10-09-00-45.png?dl=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.dropbox.com/s/axl4ogngkmdtc83/Screenshot_2015-06...</a>
I'm not sure about wanting to see payment data on the lock screen. Looks like it includes a payment amount and an email address. Isn't that borderline privacy issue? I wouldn't necessarily want my email address displaying on people's lock screens. Or am I just being paranoid?
Getting greedy: when can I sign into more than one Stripe account at once?<p>The app is great. Integrated right with 1password as well, and when I went to Authy to copy my MFA token, it auto-pasted it when I returned to the Stripe app. Normally signing in with MFA is a pain, but this was super great!
I wish they revamp their existing web dashboard because it's poorly done.<p>Features I'd expect from the dashboard at the very least:<p>1. Number of new customers per interval.<p>2. Subscription renewals per month.<p>3. Total income per month stacked by subscription type.<p>Unfortunately none of these basic features are available.
Hi I am Kathryn! I am the founder of Control , a Stripe partner, and the company referenced in this thread.<p>First off, I would like to point out an obvious fact : this is my first post ever on HN. I have observed /admired all of the great discussions on HN for years and have never felt as though I have had anything useful to contribute (or maybe I was a bit intimidated :) However, a couple people messaged me about the thread that has been materializing here- so here I am! I hope I can add an interesting or insightful perspective.<p>Yes, Control has an iOS dashboard for Stripe merchants. And an Android app. And a web app , and we have an iWatch app in development. We have a number of areas where we are building out a set of capabilities for businesses to manage their payments better. In fact, we have a number of really cool ideas in our pipeline I think anybody who manages payments will find very , very interesting. Contact me to see our roadmap !<p>I have known that Stripe was building an iOS app for months (as Cristina pointed out , since September 2014) and I believe this is great! I think a free app for Stripe customers looking for very simple functionality is a smart move by Stripe. And the design is sensational, well done!<p>At Control, we are focused on building out many more capabilities that I believe businesses will find valuable . For example (just to give a flavor of our thinking):<p>- Real time alerts on transactional behavior indicative of potential fraud occurring
- Expanded CRM tools in iOs, Android, and web
- The ability to manage Stripe, PayPal , Dwolla, and more from 1 app<p>We have a number of payment platforms in our radar we want to build business apps around (we already support Paymill in Europe and nearly done integrations to PayPal, Conekta and PIN Payments). However, Control deliberately built around Stripe first because:<p>a. Stripe/Cristina has supported our business model from Day 1 and
b. I truly believe Stripe's approach is the most significant innovation to happen in the payments industry in the last 10 years, because of their philosophy of opening their APIs to the broader developer /app ecosystem. We love Stripe and we love being able to add value to their customers<p>We are proud to be a Stripe partner and hope to continue growing and innovating alongside with them.<p>I should point out that one of our investors /advisors is the Hootsuite CEO, Ryan Holmes. The best advice Ryan gave me was not too worry too much about the prospect of Stripe releasing a free app, but to keep innovating and building distinctive value. Hootsuite's business wasn't materially impacted when Twitter launched their free app . I think this is a good analogy of our position.
Does this app provide a native onboarding flow if I want to use Stripe Connect in my iOS app? This would be great for mobile-only applications that provide payment functionality.