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There are more people who don't know how to code than do.

Great article. Last summer I put together a concept app for a micro-coding marketplace using Python and Flask. Stripe made taking payments insanely simple.

Global availability.

After a few years, Stripe is still only available in a handful of countries. If you live in a country that is not only not US (tier 1 for pretty much everything), but not even the handful of high-priority countries like Canada or UK, your options are greatly reduced. For me, for example, it's PayPal or FastSpring - I would love to use Stripe, but I simply can't.

Ditto. Stripe rocks! Simple to integrate and get it up and running in few mins.