[pastylegs]

I don't know a lot about Stripe, but I have been using Paypal to accept payments for work (I'm a web developer) from the US (I live in Ireland). Would Stripe be a viable alternative to this approach (I'm not fully comfortable with Paypal)? Stripe seems to be aimed moreso at transaction based payments (shops etc.)

[simonw]

Stripe could work for this. There's Stripe integration with Xero, for example, which makes it trivial to issue an invoice and have a "Pay with Stripe" button show up on the Xero web page for that invoice.

[iaskwhy]

Take a look at TransferWise, it's being used for that at some companies: http://transferwise.com/

Disclaimer: I'm not part of TransferWise, I just really like the idea.