[dave_sullivan]

That's certainly not been my experience with setting up online billing through authorize.net (or braintree for that matter). Integration is easy enough, it's the screwing around with getting a merchant account that's a pita.

Plus, if you're a startup, you don't really know how much you're going to be selling (or not selling). It's a good idea to keep associated costs variable until you have some better benchmarks.

Stripe is unquestionably the fastest, easiest way to be able to accept credit card payments online without making yourself look like an amateur by having google checkout or the like. Not having to go through the process of getting a merchant account--and the way their fees are structured--has been a huge time and sanity saver for me, both for myself and for projects I've worked on.

[sulife]

This is how it goes... you call Chase Paymentech and sign an app and 24 hours later you have an account. WOW, tough!

[ceslami]

The light gray color of your comments should give you a hint as to how welcome they are in this community.

[sulife]

This community can't handle the truth. Instead it idolizes dumbass ideas.

[dave_sullivan]

Wow dude, you are ANGRY about something... that's fine, I get it, but you might consider looking into what that's about. It can't be much fun going through life pretending you want to fight everyone. To each their own I suppose.

[mikeash]

More like, this community doesn't appreciate sarcastic jerks who make assertions without backing them up.