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Ask HN: Whats the best payment method for small business

16 points by homelesscodes ↗ HN
i dont like paypal or stripe is there any alternatif?? since i live in third world thanks

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n_ary
Usually, every country has a group of local “payment-gateway” services/vendors.

They are similar to stripe but local. They should have support for credit card payments and additionally local/regional payment systems(e.g. alipay, upay or other kinds native to your country).

beezlewax
Yep usually local banks offer this kind of thing too. Pays to shop around.

Stripe will probably be easier and better documented but other options exist

Alex192
Crypto, period.
gregjor
Not if you want to get paid by legit businesses.
Austizzle
Normal people aren't using crypto
bombcar
The correct answer is as many as you can reasonably afford to use.

That will probably include PayPal and stripe, managed correctly and handled like they’ll dump you instantly for no reason.

And whatever your customers want to use, too. Falling back to mailed checks in some cases.

lurn_mor
Cash. No credit, no checks, no waiting. Pay your employees immediately, pay invoices on time, and keep the profits to spend on dinner tonight.
sqwrell
CASH and have a cash atm machine at your business too Lots of places here do that