Best of luck - this is exactly what we're looking for. Suggestion: It would be fantastic if we could port existing merchant accounts or (better yet) existing gateways. For example, we're currently using Braintree for web transactions, but would love to use your service for mobile. It would be great if we could continue using our vaulted cards on braintree, but use your service for frontend.
I don't get the analogy. SlidePay is the "Android" of payments versus Square as the "Apple" of payments, but the author then goes on to say SlidePay is like a white label version of Square. How is Android a white label version of iOS? How does the analogy help frame this service? Why not just explain what it is and how it's different directly?
With the iPhone, everything (device, software, services) are from Apple.
With Android, Google provides parts that different device manufacturers can use to augment their device. Manufacturers can use their own hardware and add whatever software they want to Android.
Not a great analogy, though -- especially since my initial impression was that it only worked on Android while Square was for iOS.
A better analogy would probably be "Stripe's API + Square's Hardware".
The analogy is fine. If you're a handset manufacturer (samsung, htc, et al) you can white label android (which works kinda like iOS). Just as you can't use iOS, you can't use square in your own app.
It's interesting that the fees are the same for a transaction when a card isn't present 2.9% + 30 cents, but 2.5% + 10 cents per transaction when a card is present.
does SlidePay give you a slider?
You can slide cards with Stripe, you just need a card slider that you can use on the phone and implement the stripe API with it.
well they sure chose one hell of a great name for this pivot to a service catering to physical cc readers. For that alone I am damn impressed right now. Great branding.
