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Stripe Dashboard for iPhone

158 points by krithix 11y ago

pen2l 11y ago
Someone should write a blog with articles like "how to recreate Stripe landing page $X"
bhartzer 11y ago
I'm not sure about wanting to see payment data on the lock screen. Looks like it includes a payment amount and an email address. Isn't that borderline privacy issue? I wouldn't necessarily want my email address displaying on people's lock screens. Or am I just being paranoid?
- dangrossman 11y ago
  All shopping cart software I know of sends the store owner an e-mail about each purchase with the customer's e-mail and payment amount. E-mail already appears on my lock screen.
- s_dev 11y ago
  It's definitely not a privacy issue but perhaps a security one. I know I wouldn't care myself using it but I would be aware that a lot of people would. I'm developing another login screen here today and part of me is wondering why we secure passwords on single user devices like the iPhones but not necessarily tablets/laptops which can often hook up to external monitors or projectors. I think the iPhone security constraints can be a little more lacking than tablets and laptops in this way because they're a little more intimate. Texts messages already show up in lock screen too and texts are considered private by most people.
- michaelschade 11y ago
  The notifications are all optional: you can opt into daily summary, new payments, and new customer notifications in the app settings.
joshmn 11y ago
I said this last time and I'll say it again: Stripe's front-end team makes beautiful, beautiful things.
- s_dev 11y ago
  Even the text shimmer on the "slide across" was done well. Animations are an excellent way to convey information in a digital medium and Stipe make good use of them.
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- brendanr 11y ago
  nice design, but i wonder if their design team has any non-retina machines? the anti-aliasing in the tilted phone UI is pretty bad in Chrome on a non-retina display.
  - scott_karana 11y ago
    Ditto with Firefox 38.0.5 on OS X 10.10.3. First time I've had any disappointment in a Stripe design. Their stuff has been solid.
  - biot 11y ago
    Chrome on iPad in landscape shows the phone, non-tilted, with just a black screen. I had to check the screenshot someone else posted to see what it should look like. In portrait, the phone is tilted but still nothing displays on the phone.
  - benjamindc 11y ago
    It's actually an implementation issue and yes, I agree it's unfortunate. The problem is that the video is rotated in 3D in CSS (so we can reuse the same video without the fancy 3D effect on smaller displays since the page is vertically responsive) and unfortunately, the result varies depending on the browser (it looks much better on Safari, for example).
- psychometry 11y ago
geuis 11y ago
Not sure if the Stripe guys will see this. Your layout is really broken in landscape on iOS.
conorgdaly 11y ago
I think they may need to revisit the color scheme. Lead in text on left is pretty faint: http://i.imgur.com/QNpr5rS.png http://i.imgur.com/QNpr5rS.png FF 38 on Windows
- conorgdaly 11y ago
  Reloading page seems to have corrected issue: http://i.imgur.com/haJzllG.png http://i.imgur.com/haJzllG.png edit:Seems to have been related to background loading (opening link in new background tab and then not clicking in to it until after it had fully loaded)
stanmancan 11y ago
Strange, I can't seem to find this in the app store on my phone. I live in Canada.
- cobychapple 11y ago
  Ditto here in the UK.
  - akramhussein 11y ago
    For UK - I used the link via the site and it opened up in the App Store.
- krithix 11y ago
  (I work at Stripe.) Seems like the App Store takes a bit of time to refresh everywhere. Check back in a few hours, and if you still don't find it, please let me know!
  - free2rhyme214 11y ago
    Great front end!
- metafunctor 11y ago
  Same (Finland). I ended up downloading the app in iTunes on my Mac, then found it under "my purchases" on the phone.
- joseacta 11y ago
  Try the direct link from the website. It'll work.
  - stanmancan 11y ago
    Yeah unfortunately I'm at work right now so no iTunes. I'll check back later or wait until I get home.
adriancooney 11y ago
I never have used a Stripe product (although always wanted to) nor will I have any need to in the near future but I will always click a new product announcement from them. They are just so beautiful and consistently so. Sometimes I feel like the design takes over the actual product announcement too. The discussion on HN is usually about how great their designers are. Anyway, this looks like another great, polished product from Stripe. They are unstoppable.
- pc86 11y ago
  Exact same for myself, even if the design is very broken in FF Dev Edition.[0] [0] http://i.imgur.com/CRAl9h4.png http://i.imgur.com/CRAl9h4.png
  - psychometry 11y ago
    Works fine for me. Must be your setup/extensions.
  - urda 11y ago
    Can't reproduce, must be your client.
  - onlyfortoday2 11y ago
    nope broken for me too http://imgur.com/m93jmOU http://imgur.com/m93jmOU
  - jszymborski 11y ago
    not really something you can complain about in a nightly browser. Looks fine in FF38.0 Ubuntu.
- kzhahou 11y ago
  Much of Stripe's success is due to the usability of their product, so it's not a surprise to see that level of quality in their landing pages. Wow, Paypal, this is your UI: http://shots.jotform.com/elton/jotform-10-26-2013-19-19-31.png http://shots.jotform.com/elton/jotform-10-26-2013-19-19-31.p...
Axsuul 11y ago
That landing page is effin' mesmerizing. I think they just set a new standard here.
acoleman616 11y ago
How convenient, since I just started using Stripe this past week :) Control -- the app I had been using -- seemed great, but I have to imagine this will trump, especially considering the amount of polish and attention to detail goes into every Stripe interface.
robertnealan 11y ago
Anybody have any idea what animation library they're using? Doesn't look to be CSS transitions and all their JS is compressed (rightfully so).
- benjamindc 11y ago
  I've actually created an animation library based on my work for this page: https://github.com/bendc/animateplus https://github.com/bendc/animateplus
  - akramhussein 11y ago
    Benjamin, really like uilang.js. Do you happen to know what animation libraries are being used for iOS or at least if they are custom?
    - benjamindc 11y ago
      Facebook Pop :)
  - moeamaya 11y ago
    The library is concise and easy to reason about. Did you pull this out of the Bitcoin landing page? I just started using the lib for a client last week and I love the syntax. The code is starting to get a little unwieldy, how do you structure your animations typically?
- Axsuul 11y ago
  It's CSS transitions that are being injected by JavaScript it looks like. window.requestAnimationFrame(function(){return e.css("transform","translateX("+m+"px)") Furthermore, it looks like this landing page was built with Rails!
colinbartlett 11y ago
Looks great! It was only a matter of time. I feel bad for all those third-party apps on the AppStore that probably do the same thing. They filled a niche before Stripe could build their own solution but now, will they just fade away to obscurity?
twakefield 11y ago
If you search for "Stripe" in the iphone app store it is nowhere to be found. Among the results that do appear are "LoL Camera", "Fruit Shake", "Color Lines Free". Apple really needs to improve their app store search.
- SG- 11y ago
  If it just hit the app store then it's probably not even released in all the countries or showing up in searches yet.
bobsky 11y ago
As always, product page announcements are gorgeous. But does anyone feel the web dashboard is severely limiting? For example, getting simple graphs like YTD, Last Month, This Quarter... etc currently it's all manual http://cl.ly/image/0y1I0Y1X450D http://cl.ly/image/0y1I0Y1X450D And ditto on simple KPIs/analytics e.g. % increase of new users this week vs last, ARPU, Q/Q... I know there are 3rd party services that focus solely on this but it just seems like such an easy add; am I missing it somewhere in dashboard or is this really not a priority?
- twakefield 11y ago
  The one chart I wish Stripe would put in their standard dashboard is charges month to date vs. previous month to date. It's arguably the most important metric for SaaS. I always have two browser tabs open to measure this. Edit: Looks there is some exiting stuff coming from PC's comment. Looking forward to it.
- pc 11y ago
  Watch this space! Or, really, watch the dashboard.stripe.com space. Though we'll post it here too.
  - artursapek 11y ago
    I was using the dashboard last night and felt certain that you guys must have some kind of overhaul in progress. Looking forward to being surprised by it one of these days.
  - toomuchtodo 11y ago
    Very exciting Patrick!
  - _kyran 11y ago
    any chance of posting a screenshot of what's to come?
jdkanani 11y ago
I would definitely want to know how they create any announcement page. I mean, a whole process - brainstorming, designs (and tools) and UI.
alooPotato 11y ago
If any of the Stripe iOS engineers are here, just wondering what your rationale was for using a card based layout for the app? The alternative being the standard nav stack. Serious question. Your card layout sure is beautiful and the animation is nice but how did you decide it was worth it given some of it drawbacks (users used to the standard nav stack, less screen real estate for content, etc).
- illicium 11y ago
  The design seems to be taking a leaf from Material Design, e.g. the item selection "splash"
riobard 11y ago
Cannot sign in the app after installing. No error messages. Nothing happened after clicking the Sign In button. We've been using Stripe for a little more than half a year now. While the product and design is top-notch, the reliability of the service and speed of bug fixes could really use some work.
- michaelvillar 11y ago
  Interesting, can you email me details (email you're trying / account) at mv@stripe.com? Would appreciate it!
bgentry 11y ago
The perspective transform on the video really makes it look bad. Jaggies on the thin lines and text and tough to read. It's worse in Chrome than Safari, but still bad in either case: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHE07a-XIAARlY4.png:large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHE07a-XIAARlY4.png:large It detracts from an otherwise gorgeous page.
frankdenbow 11y ago
Wonder how this affects apps like Control that were built to service this purpose. Whats Stripe's stance on that? Also, is Android in the works?
- jaredtking 11y ago
  I'm curious how this affects other services as well. Control announced today that they raised $1.5M. [1] [1] https://twitter.com/GetControlApp/status/608355729725091841 https://twitter.com/GetControlApp/status/608355729725091841
- cristinacordova 11y ago
  (I work at Stripe) Control provides a number of services (business intelligence, analytics reporting, etc.) in addition to mobile apps to view your Stripe account details. We let Control know we were planning to build an iOS app in September of 2014 and we plan to continue to work with and support their efforts to build on top of Stripe's platform. More broadly, we want to balance being good ecosystem stewards with building the best product for our businesses. Occasionally, what we do will overlap with what others are building. When that happens, we'll try to give as much notice as possible. If you have any questions about this, please drop me a line (cristina@stripe.com). We want to ensure we're building out the Stripe ecosystem to make our partners successful.
usaphp 11y ago
I wonder how much of Stripe success is due to their gorgeous UIs and overall design, I hate when people say "Design is nothing, content is what matters..." and I love when companies like Apple and Stripe demolish these stereotypes. Design is AS important as content, great content & features will be unnoticed if they are buried under outdated and unfriendly UI design.
- serve_yay 11y ago
  I don't use Stripe and have no reason to, but a) that demo of the UI on the page is fantastic, and b) if that's what the UI is actually like, it also looks fantastic. (I mean, it looks like it works in a way which is fantastic. And visually it looks good too.) Good on 'em.
- dkrich 11y ago
  I think this confuses causality to an extent. Aesthetic design has to be a natural extension of the underlying product. A beautiful website for Porsche/Apple/Stripe and other highly-regarded products inspire confidence. Apply this same design to Dell's website and people won't take it seriously. In my recollection, Stripe's focus on aesthetic design didn't begin until the core problem of simple credit card processing for developers had been solved. Once they gained trust with their customers as a brilliantly-engineered product, beautifully-designed UI's followed.
- blub 11y ago
  Not sure you mean the app or in general, but I opened this webpage in landscape mode on an iOS device and it looks comically broken, with overlapping elements, text that can't be read and so on. I'd rather have a website that works and doesn't have a gorgeous UI. Sure, ideally we could have both, but these modern web UIs are quite unreliable in my experience.
- Lawtonfogle 11y ago
  >"Design is nothing, content is what matters..." If this were true, we wouldn't need to be constantly reminding people to not judge a book by its cover. That said, great novels have been judged so by their content, not their cover. So it seems that the whole of it is more complicated than any part. Maybe something like: It must look good to get attention. It must be good to keep it. But if something that looks better comes along, it will steal attention, at which point you can only recover it if you remain better. But that doesn't make a snazzy saying.
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jlukic 11y ago
It is really beautiful, but have to say it, the iPhone animation is just an mp4 file. Kudos though to their motion guy.
- pen2l 11y ago
  What do you mean kudos to their motion guy? Is the iPhone animation not merely just a recorded screencast of the actual app functioning as it does natively? Or have I been had by a ruse -- was the animation made in an animations program?
  - gkoberger 11y ago
    When you load the page, the iPhone spins in slightly.
hberg 11y ago
Just downloaded and tried the app. This is great for v1.0! That being said, here's a bug report: 1) There's a typo in the "transfer details" card where it lists "adjustements" 2) Bitcoin payments don't show any info about the bitcoin transaction (or the fact that it's a bitcoin payment) in the payment details card. 3) The "payment details" card cuts off longer descriptions after about 30 characters 4) it would be nice to see logs via the app to track errors "on the go".
- michaelvillar 11y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! Totally on point!
enos_feedler 11y ago
Does this app provide a native onboarding flow if I want to use Stripe Connect in my iOS app? This would be great for mobile-only applications that provide payment functionality.
onlyfortoday2 11y ago
text unreadable in firefox 38 http://imgur.com/m93jmOU http://imgur.com/m93jmOU
nodesocket 11y ago
Awesome, the mobile app Stripe has needed for years is finally here. I'm most excited about push notifications (new customers, charges), and a quick overview of transactions on the go. There have been entire companies (successfully) built on just sending Stripe notifications, now it is native in a mobile app.
erichurkman 11y ago
Getting greedy: when can I sign into more than one Stripe account at once? The app is great. Integrated right with 1password as well, and when I went to Authy to copy my MFA token, it auto-pasted it when I returned to the Stripe app. Normally signing in with MFA is a pain, but this was super great!
nfm 11y ago
This is unlike Stripe but this landing page is totally broken in Chrome and Firefox on Android for me: https://www.dropbox.com/s/axl4ogngkmdtc83/Screenshot_2015-06-10-09-00-45.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/axl4ogngkmdtc83/Screenshot_2015-06...
halayli 11y ago
I wish they revamp their existing web dashboard because it's poorly done. Features I'd expect from the dashboard at the very least: 1. Number of new customers per interval. 2. Subscription renewals per month. 3. Total income per month stacked by subscription type. Unfortunately none of these basic features are available.
- dangrossman 11y ago
  It'd be nice to have that in-house, but for now, Baremetrics gives you that kind of thing: https://baremetrics.com/ https://baremetrics.com/
  - aymeric 11y ago
    Or http://profitwell.com http://profitwell.com (it is free and gives me better metrics)
fideloper 11y ago
I also love that they support ios 7. We haven't all updated :D
controlHQ 11y ago
Hi I am Kathryn! I am the founder of Control , a Stripe partner, and the company referenced in this thread. First off, I would like to point out an obvious fact : this is my first post ever on HN. I have observed /admired all of the great discussions on HN for years and have never felt as though I have had anything useful to contribute (or maybe I was a bit intimidated :) However, a couple people messaged me about the thread that has been materializing here- so here I am! I hope I can add an interesting or insightful perspective. Yes, Control has an iOS dashboard for Stripe merchants. And an Android app. And a web app , and we have an iWatch app in development. We have a number of areas where we are building out a set of capabilities for businesses to manage their payments better. In fact, we have a number of really cool ideas in our pipeline I think anybody who manages payments will find very , very interesting. Contact me to see our roadmap ! I have known that Stripe was building an iOS app for months (as Cristina pointed out , since September 2014) and I believe this is great! I think a free app for Stripe customers looking for very simple functionality is a smart move by Stripe. And the design is sensational, well done! At Control, we are focused on building out many more capabilities that I believe businesses will find valuable . For example (just to give a flavor of our thinking): - Real time alerts on transactional behavior indicative of potential fraud occurring - Expanded CRM tools in iOs, Android, and web - The ability to manage Stripe, PayPal , Dwolla, and more from 1 app We have a number of payment platforms in our radar we want to build business apps around (we already support Paymill in Europe and nearly done integrations to PayPal, Conekta and PIN Payments). However, Control deliberately built around Stripe first because: a. Stripe/Cristina has supported our business model from Day 1 and b. I truly believe Stripe's approach is the most significant innovation to happen in the payments industry in the last 10 years, because of their philosophy of opening their APIs to the broader developer /app ecosystem. We love Stripe and we love being able to add value to their customers We are proud to be a Stripe partner and hope to continue growing and innovating alongside with them. I should point out that one of our investors /advisors is the Hootsuite CEO, Ryan Holmes. The best advice Ryan gave me was not too worry too much about the prospect of Stripe releasing a free app, but to keep innovating and building distinctive value. Hootsuite's business wasn't materially impacted when Twitter launched their free app . I think this is a good analogy of our position.
- PinPayments 11y ago
psteinweber 11y ago
Nice, I've been secretly waiting for this, also because I knew that the design and usability would be convincing. Stripe delivers once again. However I will have to stick to a third part competitor[1] for a while, until the following features are implemented (I imagine they are on the roadlist): 1. Some sort of app protection, e.g. a pin code 2. Multi account login [1] http://paidhq.com/ http://paidhq.com/

158 points by krithix 11y ago

pen2l 11y ago

Someone should write a blog with articles like "how to recreate Stripe landing page $X"

I'm not sure about wanting to see payment data on the lock screen. Looks like it includes a payment amount and an email address. Isn't that borderline privacy issue? I wouldn't necessarily want my email address displaying on people's lock screens. Or am I just being paranoid?

dangrossman 11y ago
All shopping cart software I know of sends the store owner an e-mail about each purchase with the customer's e-mail and payment amount. E-mail already appears on my lock screen.
s_dev 11y ago
It's definitely not a privacy issue but perhaps a security one. I know I wouldn't care myself using it but I would be aware that a lot of people would. I'm developing another login screen here today and part of me is wondering why we secure passwords on single user devices like the iPhones but not necessarily tablets/laptops which can often hook up to external monitors or projectors. I think the iPhone security constraints can be a little more lacking than tablets and laptops in this way because they're a little more intimate. Texts messages already show up in lock screen too and texts are considered private by most people.
michaelschade 11y ago
The notifications are all optional: you can opt into daily summary, new payments, and new customer notifications in the app settings.

joshmn 11y ago

I said this last time and I'll say it again: Stripe's front-end team makes beautiful, beautiful things.

s_dev 11y ago
Even the text shimmer on the "slide across" was done well. Animations are an excellent way to convey information in a digital medium and Stipe make good use of them.
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brendanr 11y ago
nice design, but i wonder if their design team has any non-retina machines? the anti-aliasing in the tilted phone UI is pretty bad in Chrome on a non-retina display.
- scott_karana 11y ago
  Ditto with Firefox 38.0.5 on OS X 10.10.3. First time I've had any disappointment in a Stripe design. Their stuff has been solid.
- biot 11y ago
  Chrome on iPad in landscape shows the phone, non-tilted, with just a black screen. I had to check the screenshot someone else posted to see what it should look like. In portrait, the phone is tilted but still nothing displays on the phone.
- benjamindc 11y ago
  It's actually an implementation issue and yes, I agree it's unfortunate. The problem is that the video is rotated in 3D in CSS (so we can reuse the same video without the fancy 3D effect on smaller displays since the page is vertically responsive) and unfortunately, the result varies depending on the browser (it looks much better on Safari, for example).
psychometry 11y ago

geuis 11y ago

Not sure if the Stripe guys will see this. Your layout is really broken in landscape on iOS.

conorgdaly 11y ago

I think they may need to revisit the color scheme. Lead in text on left is pretty faint: http://i.imgur.com/QNpr5rS.png http://i.imgur.com/QNpr5rS.png FF 38 on Windows

conorgdaly 11y ago
Reloading page seems to have corrected issue: http://i.imgur.com/haJzllG.png http://i.imgur.com/haJzllG.png edit:Seems to have been related to background loading (opening link in new background tab and then not clicking in to it until after it had fully loaded)

stanmancan 11y ago

Strange, I can't seem to find this in the app store on my phone. I live in Canada.

cobychapple 11y ago
Ditto here in the UK.
- akramhussein 11y ago
  For UK - I used the link via the site and it opened up in the App Store.
krithix 11y ago
(I work at Stripe.) Seems like the App Store takes a bit of time to refresh everywhere. Check back in a few hours, and if you still don't find it, please let me know!
- free2rhyme214 11y ago
  Great front end!
metafunctor 11y ago
Same (Finland). I ended up downloading the app in iTunes on my Mac, then found it under "my purchases" on the phone.
joseacta 11y ago
Try the direct link from the website. It'll work.
- stanmancan 11y ago
  Yeah unfortunately I'm at work right now so no iTunes. I'll check back later or wait until I get home.

adriancooney 11y ago

I never have used a Stripe product (although always wanted to) nor will I have any need to in the near future but I will always click a new product announcement from them. They are just so beautiful and consistently so. Sometimes I feel like the design takes over the actual product announcement too. The discussion on HN is usually about how great their designers are. Anyway, this looks like another great, polished product from Stripe. They are unstoppable.

pc86 11y ago
Exact same for myself, even if the design is very broken in FF Dev Edition.[0] [0] http://i.imgur.com/CRAl9h4.png http://i.imgur.com/CRAl9h4.png
- psychometry 11y ago
  Works fine for me. Must be your setup/extensions.
- urda 11y ago
  Can't reproduce, must be your client.
- onlyfortoday2 11y ago
  nope broken for me too http://imgur.com/m93jmOU http://imgur.com/m93jmOU
- jszymborski 11y ago
  not really something you can complain about in a nightly browser. Looks fine in FF38.0 Ubuntu.
kzhahou 11y ago
Much of Stripe's success is due to the usability of their product, so it's not a surprise to see that level of quality in their landing pages. Wow, Paypal, this is your UI: http://shots.jotform.com/elton/jotform-10-26-2013-19-19-31.png http://shots.jotform.com/elton/jotform-10-26-2013-19-19-31.p...

Axsuul 11y ago

That landing page is effin' mesmerizing. I think they just set a new standard here.

acoleman616 11y ago

How convenient, since I just started using Stripe this past week :) Control -- the app I had been using -- seemed great, but I have to imagine this will trump, especially considering the amount of polish and attention to detail goes into every Stripe interface.

robertnealan 11y ago

Anybody have any idea what animation library they're using? Doesn't look to be CSS transitions and all their JS is compressed (rightfully so).

benjamindc 11y ago
I've actually created an animation library based on my work for this page: https://github.com/bendc/animateplus https://github.com/bendc/animateplus
- akramhussein 11y ago
  Benjamin, really like uilang.js. Do you happen to know what animation libraries are being used for iOS or at least if they are custom?
  - benjamindc 11y ago
    Facebook Pop :)
- moeamaya 11y ago
  The library is concise and easy to reason about. Did you pull this out of the Bitcoin landing page? I just started using the lib for a client last week and I love the syntax. The code is starting to get a little unwieldy, how do you structure your animations typically?
Axsuul 11y ago
It's CSS transitions that are being injected by JavaScript it looks like. window.requestAnimationFrame(function(){return e.css("transform","translateX("+m+"px)") Furthermore, it looks like this landing page was built with Rails!

colinbartlett 11y ago

Looks great! It was only a matter of time. I feel bad for all those third-party apps on the AppStore that probably do the same thing. They filled a niche before Stripe could build their own solution but now, will they just fade away to obscurity?

twakefield 11y ago

If you search for "Stripe" in the iphone app store it is nowhere to be found. Among the results that do appear are "LoL Camera", "Fruit Shake", "Color Lines Free". Apple really needs to improve their app store search.

SG- 11y ago
If it just hit the app store then it's probably not even released in all the countries or showing up in searches yet.

bobsky 11y ago

As always, product page announcements are gorgeous. But does anyone feel the web dashboard is severely limiting? For example, getting simple graphs like YTD, Last Month, This Quarter... etc currently it's all manual http://cl.ly/image/0y1I0Y1X450D http://cl.ly/image/0y1I0Y1X450D And ditto on simple KPIs/analytics e.g. % increase of new users this week vs last, ARPU, Q/Q... I know there are 3rd party services that focus solely on this but it just seems like such an easy add; am I missing it somewhere in dashboard or is this really not a priority?

twakefield 11y ago
The one chart I wish Stripe would put in their standard dashboard is charges month to date vs. previous month to date. It's arguably the most important metric for SaaS. I always have two browser tabs open to measure this. Edit: Looks there is some exiting stuff coming from PC's comment. Looking forward to it.
pc 11y ago
Watch this space! Or, really, watch the dashboard.stripe.com space. Though we'll post it here too.
- artursapek 11y ago
  I was using the dashboard last night and felt certain that you guys must have some kind of overhaul in progress. Looking forward to being surprised by it one of these days.
- toomuchtodo 11y ago
  Very exciting Patrick!
- _kyran 11y ago
  any chance of posting a screenshot of what's to come?

jdkanani 11y ago

I would definitely want to know how they create any announcement page. I mean, a whole process - brainstorming, designs (and tools) and UI.

alooPotato 11y ago

If any of the Stripe iOS engineers are here, just wondering what your rationale was for using a card based layout for the app? The alternative being the standard nav stack. Serious question. Your card layout sure is beautiful and the animation is nice but how did you decide it was worth it given some of it drawbacks (users used to the standard nav stack, less screen real estate for content, etc).

illicium 11y ago
The design seems to be taking a leaf from Material Design, e.g. the item selection "splash"

riobard 11y ago

Cannot sign in the app after installing. No error messages. Nothing happened after clicking the Sign In button. We've been using Stripe for a little more than half a year now. While the product and design is top-notch, the reliability of the service and speed of bug fixes could really use some work.

michaelvillar 11y ago
Interesting, can you email me details (email you're trying / account) at mv@stripe.com? Would appreciate it!

bgentry 11y ago

The perspective transform on the video really makes it look bad. Jaggies on the thin lines and text and tough to read. It's worse in Chrome than Safari, but still bad in either case: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHE07a-XIAARlY4.png:large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHE07a-XIAARlY4.png:large It detracts from an otherwise gorgeous page.

frankdenbow 11y ago

Wonder how this affects apps like Control that were built to service this purpose. Whats Stripe's stance on that? Also, is Android in the works?

jaredtking 11y ago
I'm curious how this affects other services as well. Control announced today that they raised $1.5M. [1] [1] https://twitter.com/GetControlApp/status/608355729725091841 https://twitter.com/GetControlApp/status/608355729725091841
cristinacordova 11y ago
(I work at Stripe) Control provides a number of services (business intelligence, analytics reporting, etc.) in addition to mobile apps to view your Stripe account details. We let Control know we were planning to build an iOS app in September of 2014 and we plan to continue to work with and support their efforts to build on top of Stripe's platform. More broadly, we want to balance being good ecosystem stewards with building the best product for our businesses. Occasionally, what we do will overlap with what others are building. When that happens, we'll try to give as much notice as possible. If you have any questions about this, please drop me a line (cristina@stripe.com). We want to ensure we're building out the Stripe ecosystem to make our partners successful.

usaphp 11y ago

I wonder how much of Stripe success is due to their gorgeous UIs and overall design, I hate when people say "Design is nothing, content is what matters..." and I love when companies like Apple and Stripe demolish these stereotypes. Design is AS important as content, great content & features will be unnoticed if they are buried under outdated and unfriendly UI design.

serve_yay 11y ago
I don't use Stripe and have no reason to, but a) that demo of the UI on the page is fantastic, and b) if that's what the UI is actually like, it also looks fantastic. (I mean, it looks like it works in a way which is fantastic. And visually it looks good too.) Good on 'em.
dkrich 11y ago
I think this confuses causality to an extent. Aesthetic design has to be a natural extension of the underlying product. A beautiful website for Porsche/Apple/Stripe and other highly-regarded products inspire confidence. Apply this same design to Dell's website and people won't take it seriously. In my recollection, Stripe's focus on aesthetic design didn't begin until the core problem of simple credit card processing for developers had been solved. Once they gained trust with their customers as a brilliantly-engineered product, beautifully-designed UI's followed.
blub 11y ago
Not sure you mean the app or in general, but I opened this webpage in landscape mode on an iOS device and it looks comically broken, with overlapping elements, text that can't be read and so on. I'd rather have a website that works and doesn't have a gorgeous UI. Sure, ideally we could have both, but these modern web UIs are quite unreliable in my experience.
Lawtonfogle 11y ago
>"Design is nothing, content is what matters..." If this were true, we wouldn't need to be constantly reminding people to not judge a book by its cover. That said, great novels have been judged so by their content, not their cover. So it seems that the whole of it is more complicated than any part. Maybe something like: It must look good to get attention. It must be good to keep it. But if something that looks better comes along, it will steal attention, at which point you can only recover it if you remain better. But that doesn't make a snazzy saying.

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jlukic 11y ago

It is really beautiful, but have to say it, the iPhone animation is just an mp4 file. Kudos though to their motion guy.

pen2l 11y ago
What do you mean kudos to their motion guy? Is the iPhone animation not merely just a recorded screencast of the actual app functioning as it does natively? Or have I been had by a ruse -- was the animation made in an animations program?
- gkoberger 11y ago
  When you load the page, the iPhone spins in slightly.

hberg 11y ago

Just downloaded and tried the app. This is great for v1.0! That being said, here's a bug report: 1) There's a typo in the "transfer details" card where it lists "adjustements" 2) Bitcoin payments don't show any info about the bitcoin transaction (or the fact that it's a bitcoin payment) in the payment details card. 3) The "payment details" card cuts off longer descriptions after about 30 characters 4) it would be nice to see logs via the app to track errors "on the go".

michaelvillar 11y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Totally on point!

enos_feedler 11y ago

Does this app provide a native onboarding flow if I want to use Stripe Connect in my iOS app? This would be great for mobile-only applications that provide payment functionality.

onlyfortoday2 11y ago

text unreadable in firefox 38 http://imgur.com/m93jmOU http://imgur.com/m93jmOU

nodesocket 11y ago

Awesome, the mobile app Stripe has needed for years is finally here. I'm most excited about push notifications (new customers, charges), and a quick overview of transactions on the go. There have been entire companies (successfully) built on just sending Stripe notifications, now it is native in a mobile app.

erichurkman 11y ago

Getting greedy: when can I sign into more than one Stripe account at once? The app is great. Integrated right with 1password as well, and when I went to Authy to copy my MFA token, it auto-pasted it when I returned to the Stripe app. Normally signing in with MFA is a pain, but this was super great!

nfm 11y ago

This is unlike Stripe but this landing page is totally broken in Chrome and Firefox on Android for me: https://www.dropbox.com/s/axl4ogngkmdtc83/Screenshot_2015-06-10-09-00-45.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/axl4ogngkmdtc83/Screenshot_2015-06...

halayli 11y ago

I wish they revamp their existing web dashboard because it's poorly done. Features I'd expect from the dashboard at the very least: 1. Number of new customers per interval. 2. Subscription renewals per month. 3. Total income per month stacked by subscription type. Unfortunately none of these basic features are available.

dangrossman 11y ago
It'd be nice to have that in-house, but for now, Baremetrics gives you that kind of thing: https://baremetrics.com/ https://baremetrics.com/
- aymeric 11y ago
  Or http://profitwell.com http://profitwell.com (it is free and gives me better metrics)

fideloper 11y ago

I also love that they support ios 7. We haven't all updated :D

controlHQ 11y ago

Hi I am Kathryn! I am the founder of Control , a Stripe partner, and the company referenced in this thread. First off, I would like to point out an obvious fact : this is my first post ever on HN. I have observed /admired all of the great discussions on HN for years and have never felt as though I have had anything useful to contribute (or maybe I was a bit intimidated :) However, a couple people messaged me about the thread that has been materializing here- so here I am! I hope I can add an interesting or insightful perspective. Yes, Control has an iOS dashboard for Stripe merchants. And an Android app. And a web app , and we have an iWatch app in development. We have a number of areas where we are building out a set of capabilities for businesses to manage their payments better. In fact, we have a number of really cool ideas in our pipeline I think anybody who manages payments will find very , very interesting. Contact me to see our roadmap ! I have known that Stripe was building an iOS app for months (as Cristina pointed out , since September 2014) and I believe this is great! I think a free app for Stripe customers looking for very simple functionality is a smart move by Stripe. And the design is sensational, well done! At Control, we are focused on building out many more capabilities that I believe businesses will find valuable . For example (just to give a flavor of our thinking): - Real time alerts on transactional behavior indicative of potential fraud occurring - Expanded CRM tools in iOs, Android, and web - The ability to manage Stripe, PayPal , Dwolla, and more from 1 app We have a number of payment platforms in our radar we want to build business apps around (we already support Paymill in Europe and nearly done integrations to PayPal, Conekta and PIN Payments). However, Control deliberately built around Stripe first because: a. Stripe/Cristina has supported our business model from Day 1 and b. I truly believe Stripe's approach is the most significant innovation to happen in the payments industry in the last 10 years, because of their philosophy of opening their APIs to the broader developer /app ecosystem. We love Stripe and we love being able to add value to their customers We are proud to be a Stripe partner and hope to continue growing and innovating alongside with them. I should point out that one of our investors /advisors is the Hootsuite CEO, Ryan Holmes. The best advice Ryan gave me was not too worry too much about the prospect of Stripe releasing a free app, but to keep innovating and building distinctive value. Hootsuite's business wasn't materially impacted when Twitter launched their free app . I think this is a good analogy of our position.

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psteinweber 11y ago

Nice, I've been secretly waiting for this, also because I knew that the design and usability would be convincing. Stripe delivers once again. However I will have to stick to a third part competitor[1] for a while, until the following features are implemented (I imagine they are on the roadlist): 1. Some sort of app protection, e.g. a pin code 2. Multi account login [1] http://paidhq.com/ http://paidhq.com/