blaung

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I look for problems to solve at PushPress.

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Comment · 3 years ago

Sorry for the delayed response. Remote means anywhere in the world as we are a fully remote company. A lot of teammates are in the US, however, a good number of our team is outside of the US.

Comment · 3 years ago

Thanks! Can you shoot me an email @ brian [at] company domain so I can find your application?

Comment · 3 years ago

PushPress (https://www.pushpress.com/) | REMOTE | Lead Software Engineer

We're not building a ship to Mars, but we are making the world a healthier place by empowering the owners of SMB gym/studio/fitness businesses (no health clubs on our roster). We want you if you love small businesses, can make other developers around you better, are into fitness, and call yourself a code Jedi. Join our team to help us improve our solution in the market as we have a lot to build/integrate and some tech debt to shed. Other interesting details - 100% of client facing team are current or former gym owners/coaches, Series A funded by a great VC, and have been fully remote since we launched our first lines of code in a donut shop (oh the irony).

Apply here before the gainz disappear - https://apply.workable.com/pushpress/j/FC58C02574/

Make sure you mention HN and this post on the application. Thanks!

Comment · 6 years ago

I'll even add two more to your initial list as these are still somewhat the norm for some merchant processors:

4) Personal guarantee 5) Up-front reserve

Comment · 6 years ago

The exact reason your funds are being held is because you have a large amount of chargebacks and that is stated in the notice. This may not be any fault of your own, but your customers for some reason have decided that they want their money back and contacted their credit card issuer to get it back for them.

Stripe, and all merchant processors, play in the financial world. They are doing risk mitigation in case your company can no longer fulfill these chargeback obligations as ultimately they would be on the hook.

I know you are mad at Stripe and understand why. They make it so easy to take payments, but we are in very interesting and different times right now. My industry has been identified as high risk and we have seen rolling holds like this and/or longer payout schedules. A different merchant processor would act the same if put in the similar situation of high chargebacks. The best you can hope for is finding a merchant processor willing to take on more risk for you.