{"id":43393,"date":"2012-09-19T04:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=43393"},"modified":"2012-09-19T04:09:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T12:09:39","slug":"payments-startup-stripe-expands-to-canada-in-challenge-to-paypal","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/payments-startup-stripe-expands-to-canada-in-challenge-to-paypal","title":{"rendered":"Payments Startup Stripe Expands to Canada in Challenge to PayPal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Online payments startup Stripe<\/a> is now available in Canada.<\/p>\n

Stripe’s Sheena Pakanati announced their Canadian plans on Stripe’s blog today.<\/p>\n

According to their site Strip is publicly available for use by any individual or business based in Canada and it’s the exact same Stripe that is available in the US: instant approval, all major card types accepted, the ability to accept payments from anyone in any country, and simple, flat pricing, without monthly fees.<\/p>\n

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Stripe tested the service in Canada over the summer and got extensive feedback from beta user companies including Victoria’s MetaLab and Ottawa’s Shopify.<\/p>\n

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In many ways, launching in Canada is a big step for us—going from 1 to 2 is often harder than going from 2 to n—but it’s only a small piece of what we have in mind. We grew up in countries from Honduras to Kenya, and a large part of why we’re so eager to build Stripe is to help those outside the US to participate as first-class citizens in the internet economy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bloomberg’s Danielle Kucera interviewed Shopify’s Tobi Lutke<\/a> to get an insider’s view of the news and he had this to say: “The credit card gateways in Canada are much more tied to the banking system. It takes literally months to get a payment gateway set up. With Stripe, it takes minutes. It’s a game changer in Canada.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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