At Producteev, my old start-up, I implemented the payment system using Paypal, omg, it was so hard, and so painful for the following reason:
- poor documentation
- I never knew how to get an up to date documentation
- very slow api and website
- very hard to understand the meaning of the undocumented data etc.
Once, my co-founder @Ilan Abehassera sent me a link to an article about Stripe on Techcrunch:
I signed up to Stripe, within minutes I was able to charge my own credit card through a CURL bash call, everything was clear, recurring payment perfectly handled, discount, etc etc. And this was at the very beginning of Stripe. Then I had to come up with why we should quickly switch from Paypal to Stripe.
Anyway, very good memoery, you definitely set the standard for how an API should be designed and I can't thank you enough for that!
Once, my co-founder @Ilan Abehassera sent me a link to an article about Stripe on Techcrunch:
I signed up to Stripe, within minutes I was able to charge my own credit card through a CURL bash call, everything was clear, recurring payment perfectly handled, discount, etc etc. And this was at the very beginning of Stripe. Then I had to come up with why we should quickly switch from Paypal to Stripe.
Anyway, very good memoery, you definitely set the standard for how an API should be designed and I can't thank you enough for that!