Is there a thread explaining why stripe?

[jamiekeefer]

I am trying to decide if I should buy the plugin. I want to support you guys somehow, but not sure if this is better option for me.

Perhaps someone can explain features/benefits versus paypal?

Thank you

jamie

[WC Vendors Support]

Hi Jamie,

Stripe is simply put — awesome. If you buy anything from us, you’ll use the Stripe Gateway that we sell for it, too!

PayPal is………well…….. PayPal. They have a habit of being extremely unfriendly towards buyers and sellers, and very unfriendly for chargebacks. They are habitual at limiting account access for no reason too. But customer service aside, there’s more than just PayPal’s unfriendliness to consider Stripe for instead.

Strip’s gateway is much better integrated. Give it a try. Add anything to your shopping cart here on the site. And then go to the checkout page. What do you see? A simple, easy to read form for inputting a credit card number and expiration date right on THIS site. You aren’t redirected to PayPal, you don’t have to be redirected back for your downloads, everything is handled on wcvendors.com. And configuring it is really simple, too. PayPal Adaptive Payments is a nightmare to configure because it’s such a complex registration process and sometimes PayPal gets it wrong even when they process your application.

The downside to Stripe is that you will have to have a ssl/https website. If you don’t have SSL, then Stripe won’t work for your site. Since buyers are inputting credit card numbers on your site, SSL is an absolute must and required for PCI/DSS compliance. Getting your site a SSL certificate is cheap and pretty easy, though. What I like to do is make the ENTIRE site https, because when you do, not only is it better and safer for the buyers and sellers, it also helps you rank higher on Google. 🙂

That’s pretty much it. Stripe’s just easier to use, easier to configure, better support, and a better checkout gateway. The only reason we really even bother with PayPal at all is because it’s what most sites want to use because they simply don’t know better. 🙂

Cheers

Ben

[jamiekeefer]

Ben,

Thank you for the thoughtful reply.

I have other sites with a merchant account and authorize.net services, so I do not mind sitewide SSL. Stripe is then an merchant account, escrow type service and bank – or do I have to connect to our bank account?

is there an integration with a POS card slider. I want to use the website as the POS service at our first retail location. A slider would be more atypical versus entering the card numbers on the site. Perhaps you can add some color to that line of thinking.

I will try the order processing system here on your site and grab the plugin. It is the least I can do for all your efforts.

thank you

Jamie

[WC Vendors Support]

Stripe will indeed ask you for a bank account. That’s how they pay you. The funds show up the next business day. 🙂

POS card slider? I’m not sure. WC Vendors works with any payment gateway, but will only automatically pay vendors commissions with Stripe or PayPal. You might consider WooCommerce POS plugin, and use that in your retail location. When you do that, ALL sales are recorded in WooCommerce. 🙂 Makes your accounting a lot easier!

Ben

[jamiekeefer]

Thanks Ben.

I dug a little deeper on stripe site and like what I see. Having vendors sign up for stripe should be easy enough.

When you mentioned the headaches of doing business with paypal…it rang true. Couple that with paypals chargeback happy policy…yikes. Where do I sign up for stripe? 🙂 Looking at Stripe dispute policy, it seems reasonable.

Thank you for your comments and the great product.

Jamie

[WC Vendors Support]

For the site admin (you!) just go to stripe.com and open an account. That’s it! There’s the setup guide in the KB on how to get an API account setup, which literally takes like 2 minutes start to finish if you type really slow. 🙂

For vendors, when they go to the Vendor Dashboard they will see the “Connect to Stripe” button. When they click it, Stripe asks the vendor to login if they already have an account, otherwise they create one right then and there. Easy as that!

Thanks for your purchase and support, much appreciated!

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