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by jasonwen 4488 days ago
Second that, exactly same experience. Plus Stripes API is awesome. If you want to move fast, avoid headaches, pay less fees, go with Stripe.
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I've had a much higher conversion rate with PayPal, even though I love stripe. It's annoying, because it's hard to do add-on payments with PayPal. Stripe is basically a dream to work with. But, if you don't have PP, you should -- but then once you do, it torques your conversion numbers per platform because people just see the PayPal button and click it. Suddenly 90% of your sales are through PP. The fact is: no one wants to type in their CC numbers and all that nonsense. Convenience factor is huge.

It's not sensical to choose one or the other over which YOU like more. You're in business to increase profits. If that means a PayPal button, so be it.

Hm, this is very interesting to hear, and doesn't match the what we see in general or what PayPal apparently sees in aggregate[1].

I'd be very curious to hear more about your use case -- could you drop me a line? patrick@stripe.com.

[1] http://www.quora.com/Online-Shopping/When-purchasing-online-...