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While the Stripe/Render integration looks interesting for our latest startup, more than anything I just wanted to take a moment and say 'Thank you' for building such a decent product.

Congratulations on the launch!

How many man-hours did it take to build this app? Does releasing it as an Stripe app instead of hosting it on your own website(using Stripe Connect) reduced technical implementations such as authentication/authorization?

Any interesting details on how it’s implemented? If I were guessing, register a stripe webhook. On each webhook, and fetch changed events and turn it into proper sql.

Not quite sure what this is solving, doesnt stripe already allow you to query for data?

Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com? Would like to see what's going on here and stop the payments. (We stop recurring payments when a business shuts down their Stripe account.)

I had this happen with a fraudulent charge once. To be clear, I don't know that it was a recurring payment with Stripe, but the behavior was similar. It took me about three years and a half dozen new cards to finally kill it.

At one point I asked the customer rep if there was any way to rid myself of this nuisance other than completely closing my account. She responded with the normal "that's your decision, blah, blah, blah...", but I was legitimately asking, not threatening.

I think I said something like: "No, let me be clear: I don't want to close the account. I just don't want to deal with this every six months either. I'm seriously asking if this is the only other recourse because it seems we've tried everything else."

It did get resolved eventually. It was also for a trivial amount so nothing like what you're looking at. It was still very annoying though.

The question is often how closely they let apps compete with them. Ie, can I roll out a (cheaper) invoicing solution with for example a $5/invoice cap. Quickbooks et al do allow this. Some players do not like that.

Unless there's a reason for an app to be exclusive to a marketplace, then I disagree that it deepens the moat.

Using Stripe for B2B / Enterprise SaaS subscriptions. A few things that would improve my life, though I suspect Stripe might already working on a few of those:

  Easy way to create a recurring subscription based on a one-off price, currency and product description (just so this is still recognised as recurring revenue).
  Recurring subscriptions that automatically pause and remind me 30/60 days before renewal so I can reach out to the customer and get a new purchase order.
  Customer templates - Many customers purchase through resellers, so having templates for different resellers would accelerate the process to add new customers with the same bill-to but different ship-to.
  Dashboard with upcoming renewals for annual subscriptions.
  Saved export settings (columns) for payouts, so I can export these each month for my accountant.

Yes, you can do all of those through the API, and I'm sure Stripe will tackle these sooner rather than later, still, just to give you an idea.

I really want a wrapper around the terrible in-app payment APIs of Google and Apple. There are some companies doing this (RevenueCat) but in my experience they are super buggy even to this day, which sorta goes against the entire problem they are trying to solve. The APIs that apple and google provide are a mess and full of weird edge cases and hacks (like polling for changes rather than webhooks), so a wrapper around it with proper webhooks and a well designed API like Stripe’s existing products would be amazing.

merchant of record (like paddle)

Let's agree they do it frequently

Thanks for the report; we're tracking this on the public Github repo for Stripe Apps: https://github.com/stripe/stripe-apps/issues/608

You can follow that issue for updates (hopefully shortly!) and if you have additional details to add, adding them there will get them to the team directly.

Thanks again and sorry for the launch day bumps :)

It states "Stripe Apps are coming in the next few weeks. Explore the Marketplace, and get notified when an app is available" so maybe it's just how they're gating access.

They charge 0.5% per invoice for the higher tier, so for 20k that would be 100 bucks. Which is still excessive imo, but not 500 bucks.

Sorry, question by someone who is not part of the USA (not even Europe, if it's a common case in Europe too). Why would you have to pay to send an invoice? It isn't just a PDF? Is there an extra mechanism that I am missing?

Startup: (n) a weird entity that would risk $20/k customer because $100 invoice is too much.

Seems so,

"Transparent and consistent pricing You must clearly state your app pricing up front, without hidden costs or fees. App pricing must also be consistent with off-marketplace prices."

https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-apps/review-requirements#app-...

Though I suppose Stripe is watching for apps doing things Stripe should/could do itself as a real-time "what would people pay extra for?" list.

Yes but if you create something worthwhile they'll just copy it and make you sad.

Sign in to Stripe and it'll work. (Updating now to work when you're not signed in too.)

yes thats coming next!

I think Figma is the de-facto in SV - I haven't heard of any designer friends using Sketch since at least 2019

A lot to unpack here.

1. Stripe is a private company, it hasn't IPO'd.

2. YC was an early investor in Stripe, but as a late stage company, Stripe has many, many stakeholders that are investors: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stripe/company_finan... to think that they're beholden to YC and would make business decisions for the sake of YC companies -- oof.

Docusign is up 80% over last 5 years. The covid surge of docusign never really made much sense.

YC has no real clout anymore.