Hey tech friends. I'm wondering about alternatives to stripe, specifically to stripe connect for split payouts. Anybody have any opinions about these European alternatives? https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/stripe

I see others like these but many of them have U.S. headquarters. https://tipalti.com/resources/learn/stripe-competitors-and-alternatives/

edit/added couple more tags for visibility.

#stripe #payments#eu#europe #europeanalternatives #tech#saas #startup #software#cloud #aws #gcp #digitalocean

"[Nostr] has the Zap Lightning payments and stuff ... we haven't built into our own app, because it's not a priority, and in some ways we're positioning ourselves as the non-Bitcoiner Nostr folks.

But ... easy micro-payments between users, and from users to services, gives us a economic model that's not advertising."

@rabble, 2025

https://wedistribute.org/podcast/s2e3-rabble-from-nos-social/

#payments #advertising #Nostr

@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day ...

"... a new members' bill put forward by New Zealand First
would protect cash as a key option in transactions, requiring stores to take it for purchases up to $500. If drawn from the ballot and passed, NZ First leader Winston Peters said it would 'provide for the enduring use of cash as a private, accessible, and reliable method of payment'."

#NikDirga, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/567371/new-zealand-first-s-cash-transactions-protection-bill-what-it-is-and-what-it-could-do

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#payments #cash

Great rant from #Asmongold here about Visa/ Mastercard control over payments in the Anglophone internet (WeChat Pay/ AliPay is the equivalent in China), and how they use their payment processing chokepoint to decide what citizens can and can't pay for online;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h2Cw-NcDwQ

Disclaimer: I just stumbled on this, so I don't know anything about Asmongold or his other videos. He says a few angry, and arguably rude things here ("fat", "stupid" etc), but he makes many good points.

#payments

Hey tech friends. I'm wondering about alternatives to stripe, specifically to stripe connect for split payouts. Anybody have any opinions about these European alternatives? https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/stripe

I see others like these but many of them have U.S. headquarters. https://tipalti.com/resources/learn/stripe-competitors-and-alternatives/

edit/added couple more tags for visibility.

#stripe #payments#eu#europe #europeanalternatives #tech#saas #startup #software#cloud #aws #gcp #digitalocean

Almost all of the online payment providers you interact with is backed by one of a handful of giant payment processors (eg PayPal and Stripe, or in China, AliPay and WeChatPay). That are essentially an API between you and the credit card company your card belongs to. That are, in turn. basically APIs between you and the company that hosts your bank accounts.

In other words, companies are squeezing on chokepoints between you and your bank.

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#payments#OnlinePayments#ChokePointCapitalism

Email from #Stripe;

"New AI-powered Smart Disputes will be enabled in July 2025"

"We’ll automatically enable this new product on your account ...

If you win a dispute using Smart Disputes, you’ll pay 30% of the recovered disputed amount. If you don’t win, then no fees for Smart Disputes apply. The fee for receiving a dispute still applies to all disputes, including ones countered with Smart Disputes."

We need a vendor-neutral payment protocol that doesn't depend on enshittifiers

#payments