jenanwise

I’ve been working with the Stainless team over the last year, and I rapidly went from being highly skeptical of outsourcing SDKs to being one of the team’s biggest fans.

Separately, as a consumer of many afterthought-ish SDKs for popular services, I’m extremely excited to see their work opening up to more developers. I hope it raises the bar for SDKs everywhere!

Future development will be focused on Elements and the new version of Checkout, but we’ll continue to maintain the legacy version as long as we can. Note that if you’re accepting payments from PSD2/SCA-impacted countries, we do recommend using Elements or Checkout, as the legacy version of Checkout doesn’t support 3DS.

Would love to hear more about why Elements or the new version of Checkout don’t work for your use case — can you shoot me an email jenan@stripe.com?

Not yet, but the amount of JavaScript necessary is really small. Essentially:

Essentially:

  window.Stripe('<your key>').redirectToCheckout({sessionId});

You’re right, they are definitely not trivial :) We’ve done a lot of work to make Checkout automatically support PSD2/SCA compliance out of the box — we’ll trigger 3DS only when it’s required. More here: https://stripe.com/en-US/payments/strong-customer-authentica...

Google Pay coming soon!

I wrote some notes below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19740475) but TL;DR is that this lets us support a lot of features that that the legacy version never could. If you’re looking for an embedded form, Elements work great (https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-js/elements/quickstart) — you can of course pair Elements with a lightbox/modal library to get a similar experience to the legacy version of Checkout.

We found that legacy version of Checkout did not allow us to build a number of features that users have been asking about for years—including instantly turning on Apple Pay without needing you to register with Apple directly, supporting a unified API that can work with redirect-based payment methods such as iDEAL (coming soon), and a bunch more features that we're working on. If you're looking for something embedded in your page, we have Elements: https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-js/elements/quickstart

We've got a page for that! https://stripe.com/docs/payments

The Apple Pay button will only show up to customers who have Apple Pay onboarded and enabled. Customers who don't care about Apple Pay won't ever see the button.

(I work on Checkout)