Should Startups Avoid Stripe? How We Got Our Account Back
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:41 am
Update: This post was originally written in 2014. A few hours after this post was published we were contacted by several people at Stripe and managed to get our account reinstated. And we haven't had any issues with them since. You can jump to the case tracking directly.
Why We Chose Stripe
We’ve heard a lot about Stripe over the past few years, but as a European business, we were unable to sign up for a long time. Not until they finally started accepting UK-based companies. We’ve been a high-volume PayPal user – both as a seller and buyer – since 2007, with over a million dollars transacted on their platform. We had our disputes and long chats with PayPal’s support team, but there was nothing that couldn’t be handled.
However, there are two major problems with PayPal :
Its reputation, many customers tell us that they would like cameroon phone number data to avoid paying with PayPal, at all costs.
Their API is a nightmare; it's overly complicated and lacks features that should have been default in 2014. Long story short, we were excited to build Kinsta's credit card acceptance program with Stripe .
The registration process is easy, although there are a lot of documents to submit, which is understandable. While you wait for your live account to be confirmed, you can already start building your client for their API and they provide libraries for the most common languages, which are written based on modern programming standards and as a result, are very easy to work with. This was not a surprise, as Stripe was born out of the founding team's frustration with the payment processors available at the time, they set out to disrupt the industry.
And they did it: the API doesn’t feel like an afterthought like PayPal does, it’s a real pleasure to work with. Setting up and starting to receive payments with Stripe is easy.
Why We Chose Stripe
We’ve heard a lot about Stripe over the past few years, but as a European business, we were unable to sign up for a long time. Not until they finally started accepting UK-based companies. We’ve been a high-volume PayPal user – both as a seller and buyer – since 2007, with over a million dollars transacted on their platform. We had our disputes and long chats with PayPal’s support team, but there was nothing that couldn’t be handled.
However, there are two major problems with PayPal :
Its reputation, many customers tell us that they would like cameroon phone number data to avoid paying with PayPal, at all costs.
Their API is a nightmare; it's overly complicated and lacks features that should have been default in 2014. Long story short, we were excited to build Kinsta's credit card acceptance program with Stripe .
The registration process is easy, although there are a lot of documents to submit, which is understandable. While you wait for your live account to be confirmed, you can already start building your client for their API and they provide libraries for the most common languages, which are written based on modern programming standards and as a result, are very easy to work with. This was not a surprise, as Stripe was born out of the founding team's frustration with the payment processors available at the time, they set out to disrupt the industry.
And they did it: the API doesn’t feel like an afterthought like PayPal does, it’s a real pleasure to work with. Setting up and starting to receive payments with Stripe is easy.