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I use Stripe for Draft, and I know I'm losing money. I get emails everyday from people outside the US who can't use a credit card or they don't trust any vendor with their CC. I'm probably going to have to add Paypal too :/



> I use Stripe for Draft, and I know I'm losing money. I get emails everyday from people outside the US who can't use a credit card or they don't trust any vendor with their CC.

I think you need to make a judgement (in the absence of hard data, which you often won't have before launching something!) on the types of users that might use your service.

For example: I'm building a service where the sole demographic is developers, and typically fairly savvy ones at that. I feel that I can get away with Stripe (credit cards) being the only payment option available because most of my users aren't going to be particularly averse to buying things online.

If I were selling physical goods, or SaaS with a diverse userbase, then I would certainly consider other options.


I am a developer, in Mexico. I have to jump through hurdles to pay some sites (Browserstack, dnsimple). I want to give you my money and even though I loathe PayPal it's the only solution that always works.




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