[thomasfortes]

Brazilian dev with some experience in developing systems used across LatAm.

Honestly, it is a mess...

There are specific payment methods that are common in a single country where people prefer to use that instead of credit cards, as a result sometimes we have to integrate a bunch of different payment processors, a couple of them with non-existent or terrible documentation which result in a ton of emails and calls to clarify stuff.

Stripe is in Beta in Brazil for a while but I never developed something with it for the local market, there is a countrywide processor here that have great documentation and support everything that Brazilian customers are used to and the fees are in the same ballpark, so there's no need to use it.

> We heard it’s better than Brazil.

Which is funny for me, integrating payment processors in Brazil isn't a big deal and I had a lot of trouble with a few LatAm processors, but if I had to guess the reason I would say that a lot of old cards and cards for people with low income used to be national only, they couldn't pay anything in other currencies, nowadays the card situation is a bit better and most issued cards can purchase international goods but since stripe apparently is coming to Brazil, if you could process your payments through it it should work flawlessly.