[jamiethompson]

Really?

[wichert]

For payments using direct bank transfers tends to be the standard approach in the EU, certainly for national payments.

[jamiethompson]

Sure, but that's not what we're talking about here. For those kind of payments, in the US they still tend to use cheques. For buying stuff from shops or online, we use cards, just like anywhere else, no?

[wichert]

If you mean you use credit cards for buying stuff online, then no: that is not what we do here. I'm not sure about all of the EU, but at least in NL the majority of online transactions use payments directly with your normal checking account at your bank using a system called iDeal (see https://www.ideal.nl/en/ ).

[jamiethompson]

Crazy. I stand corrected. In the UK we just use credit and debit cards for everything.

But then, we're not really representative of the rest of Europe I guess. Even less so nowadays :(

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Stripe supports iDeal btw.