Note: this is different than Braintree and Amazon payments, which either refund in full or simply charge only the $0.30 fee. Stripe is now at or near the most expensive here relative to the competition. The idea that they have been doing customers a favor is not accurate.
I have used stripe for years, but they are a company that has continued to make things worse with every update, versus AWS which has my trust they won't increase rates. If AWS ever offered a true competitor, we would switch.
They invest in publishing books, but they still miss basic features like a way to test credit cards in the production system for QA purposes. It's an easily solved problem (let you generate one time fake card numbers programmatically that stripe "pretends" to charge). I have been trying to test checkout flows with them for years and their official stance is "don't test production checkout flows", which is insane.
I hope stripe changes it's ways here, but they have been a large disappointment over the last 4 years or so after a solid start.
I have used stripe for years, but they are a company that has continued to make things worse with every update, versus AWS which has my trust they won't increase rates. If AWS ever offered a true competitor, we would switch.
They invest in publishing books, but they still miss basic features like a way to test credit cards in the production system for QA purposes. It's an easily solved problem (let you generate one time fake card numbers programmatically that stripe "pretends" to charge). I have been trying to test checkout flows with them for years and their official stance is "don't test production checkout flows", which is insane.
I hope stripe changes it's ways here, but they have been a large disappointment over the last 4 years or so after a solid start.