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by dgunn 5338 days ago
Do you guys have plans to allow styling the payment iframe? This is one advantage of the poundpay system that I really liked but as already stated, they're turning users away at the moment.

This may seem trivial, but, to me, the whole point of offering the iframe solution is to allow users the ability to never leave my website during the payment task-flow. But loading an iframe without my branding/styling removes a lot of the benefit.

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Yes, we do plan to allow style customization for the iframe content fairly soon. What kind of styling would you want to apply to the iframe content?
Basically everything to make it look as much like our site as possible.

For example, we have a textured background, so to begin with it would be nice if the iframe background was transparent by default. We have taken care of this, but we had to write a script to set it to transparent after it is generated by your script because your script gives it a white background by default.

We have styles applied to all input fields, we don’t use pure black text but instead a slightly off-black that has better contrast with our background color, we even use a web font from google. So as you can imagine, the frame looks pretty foreign on our page.

We would be more than willing to serve the sheet from our servers. Maybe we could provide you with a url and you could just add it to a link tag in the head of the page you serve.

We’re about to wrap up our wepay integration now, we’d be happy to be in a test group for something like this. I’m dave [at] soupnextdoor.com if you want a guinea pig.

[edit: clarification where needed]