Stripe Reader

Stripe makes none of the hardware that is currently available (the BBPOS Chipper™ 2X BT or Verifone P400). Not sure which processing platform they are riding atop of these days (perhaps Tsys?) but we maintain a separate First Data account and CardConnect integration since Stripe&#x27;s support for certain BINs of business cards is lacking. Said banks expect a breakdown of what was taxable to be sent along with the transaction, otherwise the transaction will be declined.<p>2.7% + $0.05 per transaction is expensive for in person payments. We are averaging 1.2% (since debit is so cheap) for our First Data account, with next day funding (Stripe has variable delivery, sometimes taking up to a week).

Looks exactly like a Square reader [1].<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if they&#x27;re from the same OEM, just with different firmware.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;squareup.com&#x2F;au&#x2F;en&#x2F;hardware&#x2F;reader" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;squareup.com&#x2F;au&#x2F;en&#x2F;hardware&#x2F;reader</a>

Is it just me or has Stripe come out with like 4 new products in the last month?

Visa has a product where businesses accept contactless payments on Any NFC-enabled Android phone[1]. I thought that might be something stripe go after instead of it&#x27;s own hardware. Interested to know why.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usa.visa.com&#x2F;about-visa&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;press-releases.releaseId.17361.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usa.visa.com&#x2F;about-visa&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;press-releases.rele...</a>

If you punch “1337” into the pinpad it redirects you to their jobs page - cute.

Is it my imagination, or do the offerings from Square and Stripe continue to converge?

I don&#x27;t remember ever &quot;swiping&quot; a card and I&#x27;m in Brazil - in there any other market than US for this?

I don&#x27;t really see what that bring compared to Stripe Terminal.<p>Other than the fact that it doesn&#x27;t have a keyboard for typing PIN code, which makes the chip reader useless for many cards (all of them in France at least).

Funny.. I always get confused between Stripe and Square. This won&#x27;t help.

It&#x27;s been almost 3 years Stripe Terminal has been announced and still no announcement for an actual release in Europe. As it was scheduled for the end of 2020 at the beginning, but &quot;undefined&quot; by now, it seems the Stripe teams encounter important difficulties.<p>After 5 requests to support, I&#x27;m sure they don&#x27;t want to communicate clearly for a deployment in Europe, and this is hence a no go to choose Stripe as a payment solution to develop stuff like modern POS software. What a pity, I like Stripe so much...

How do you enter a PIN code? i.e. Wholefoods accepts contactless payments and then guess what...you need a PIN code.<p>I guess an app somewhere (like on a phone or iPad) needs to be handed over to you to do that...? I really dislike PIN code backed payments, the whole touchless&#x2F;contactless experience should be as fast as paying for the &quot;tube&quot; in London with an Oyster IMHO

Please let us plebs invest in Stripe already!

How is this different &#x2F; better than existing readers, for example, the one from Square?

Someone has thrown down the gauntlet at Square. [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Square&#x2F;status&#x2F;1405222258206031873" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Square&#x2F;status&#x2F;1405222258206031873</a>

Another day, another Stripe product.

Totally see the rationale for annexing this profit pool (offline &#x2F; card-present transactions)....but this doesn&#x27;t feel to me like it is aligned with &quot;increasing the GDP of the internet&quot; -- unless I am missing something. And I&#x27;d love to be missing something, because thinking about Stripe and their strategy is very fun.

I (almost) can&#x27;t believe they didn&#x27;t name it the Stripe Swipe.<p>On the other hand, being not in the US, swiping cards to read the actual magnetic stripe is really quaint and not something I do a lot of these days. And it would have been weird to name it for a minor&#x2F;compatibility feature, I guess.

I&#x27;m currently implementing Stripe Terminal functionality for an iOS project using the BBPOS Chipper. Does this Stripe hardware do anything that the Chipper doesn&#x27;t? Or are they simply moving away from generic looking 3rd party hardware?

Stripe is not available in my country. So seeing articles like this just makes me annoyed.

How can I check the amount if there is no screen on the device?

Would be great if it worked with their JavaScript SDK.

This looks like a direct competition by to square

Enough about stripe on this site already. Nice ad campaign.