[hiddenfeatures]

Oh man... I love that Stripe is finally coming to Europe.

BUT seriously (going on a disappointed rant here): Belgium & the Netherlands get into private beta and Germany gets nothing? I mean: Come on. BE + NL together have 27m people - Germany has some 80m AND a world-class economy. I don't want to bash on our neighbors (God knows we've done that one or two times in the past), I just want me some Stripe.

I know that the delay is probably because of some ridiculous red tape in Germany. :-(

tl;dr: Please absolve us from PayMill & the Samwer brother

[jusben1369]

No idea but one thing Germany is famous for is the low adoption of credit cards vs direct debit (ELV) etc - more so than most European countries. German's tend to find it a deal breaker (locally) if you are a payment gateway that only supports credit cards. So that could be one reason why but just a guess.

[hiddenfeatures]

Very good point there! Sadly we (as usual) have found our own way of doing things :-/

[k-mcgrady]

AFAIK debit cards are supported but limited to Visa and Mastercard.

[hiddenfeatures]

n.b. we were talking about DIRECT DEBIT (which is something else entirely from debit cards). You basically allow a company to directly withdraw money from your bank account (assuming sufficient funds on the account)

[k-mcgrady]

Sorry, misread that. Direct debit support would be nice!

[hiddenfeatures]

No worries. Indeed direct debit would be awesome - at least for the marginal subset of "companies doing business in Germany"

[webignition]

The UK beta allowed Visa and Mastercard credit and debit cards

[thairu]

We are working on bringing Stripe to Germany. Please sign up at https://stripe.com/global to be notified when we launch (I work at Stripe)

[Peroni]

Out of curiosity, what's the issue with PayMill? I always assumed they were a decent alternative?

[germangirl]

ive implemented them into my shop and im totally happy with it to be honest. easy implementation, works fine & great supported provided.

[hiddenfeatures]

I found a few of their examples had errors in them. Plus a general dislike towards the Samwer brothers. (I know that this shouldn't affect business)

[nhangen]

"Plus a general dislike towards the Samwer brothers."

This is why I won't use them until customers beg me to.