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by dblock 4122 days ago
We are very sad to see Balanced go at https://www.artsy.net - we were an early and loyal customer. Balanced has been very good to us throughout the years. Thank you.

We've actually had some support for Stripe too for a small service, an experiment, but were going to delete it and continue using Balanced 100% of the time.

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I'd love to hear why you were going to stop your Stripe usage. Totally understand if it was for the sake of consolidation, but if there were product needs that we weren't hitting it'd be great to know :).
Without pre-funding and escrow it's really hard to manage B2B relationships with the Stripe feature set. Ease of disbursement is a use case that made us choose Balanced over Stripe in the first place
Lack of prefunding and escrow was/is a huge one for us.
Definitely consolidation. And we were generally happy with Balanced.

Lack of pre-funding/escrow was not a big factor, but I can see how it can become one.