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by svens_ 3504 days ago
I would use Stripe, just because I trust them way more than PayPal and the conditions are slightly better. There's Stripe Checkout (https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/tutorial), it's not much more effort than a PayPal button (unless you're using it like a donate button).

Whether it looks professional or not depends on your clientele. If your service is good, whether you're using Stripe or PayPal doesn't matter. I'll need some convincing to put my card details into forms from other providers though.

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Given the author is posting the question, that implies he feels there is a significant challenge to launching with Stripe over PayPal.

While I agree Stripe has more than one edge over PayPal, and that Stripe isn't that complex to set up -- if getting launched is at stake then PayPal will do just fine. Learning how to set up Stripe can come later.