WePay Drops Prices, Rolls Out White Label Payments API

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/14/paypal-competitor-wepay-adds-white-label-api-drops-prices

by lsh123 • 14 years ago

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vampirechicken3• 14 years ago

Isn't there some link between techcrunch, y-combo, and HN?

vampirechicken3• 14 years ago

Downvotes instead of an answer. That's awesome.

pbreit2• 14 years ago

Ycombinator operates HN (as should be apparent by the URL). Neither are related to TechCrunch beyond all having an interest in the tech industry.

Downvote.

vampirechicken3• 14 years ago

Thank you for the answer, and the downvote.

After you replied I remembered that TC is Michael Arington, arch-nemesis of Leo LaPorte.

aoprisan• 14 years ago

how does this compare to stripe?

joelrunyon• 14 years ago

It's a less technical solution, but it's been really easy to setup.

Most of my projects from here on out are going to be either utilizing wepay or stripe and staying as far, far away from PayPal as possible.

susanni_tsunami• 14 years ago

2nd that. Had a nightmare early on with Paypal, chose WePay and never looked back. Lowered rates makes them now comparable to any service out there, including Stripe.

lsh1233• 14 years ago

* Full support for platform use case including the easiest possible merchant onboarding and ability to charge "app fee" for services.

* Support for all experience levels from hosted pages to payment buttons to iFrame solution (full PCI compliance) to Credit Card Tokenization (PCI compliance required).

* Simpler Credit Card Tokenization API that allows you to immediately charge the user and store the credit card for later use.

reitzensteinm• 14 years ago

Sorry, but this is bad form.

If you're going to accuse Stripe of not being upfront with its customers, you should at least put a disclaimer that you work for WePay at the top of your post.

Being specific on the details wouldn't hurt, either.

boucher2• 14 years ago

Not quite sure what you mean by "simpler," since it would appear to take exactly the same number of steps as our API does to store and then charge a credit card (and with virtually identical parameters).

_pius• 14 years ago

Full support for platform use case including the easiest possible merchant onboarding and ability to charge "app fee" for services.

IMO, this is the most interesting and differentiated part of the service as compared to, say, Stripe (which I use and love).

Who else offers turnkey support for building your own marketplace, not just taking payments from customers?

Intermediate2• 14 years ago

Is it possible to accept wepay for merchants from another countries, e.g Russia?

Intermediate2• 14 years ago

Seems like it is not the case: > You must be a US resident to accept payments.

ryan_f• 14 years ago

That is great that they listened to customer feedback. I started using other providers because of handling everything through the iFrames and callbacks. They have a lot to offer, especially with the ability to create customer accounts. It is worth checking out.

josscrowcroft• 14 years ago

Sad that you have to be a USA resident :/

pbreit2• 14 years ago

It seems like WePay is still trying to figure out its place in the industry. It's an inferior offering to PayPal and was rapidly passed over by Stripe.

WePay Drops Prices, Rolls Out White Label Payments API

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