I think you misunderstand what Stripe is. They are nothing more than a (credit card) payments processor. So if your buyer has a credit card, they can use Stripe.

What's more, Stripe also allows me to implement country specific payment methods. For example, here in the Netherlands most folks don't use credit cards. We use our bank cards with a system called "Ideal". The good news is that Stripe will allow me to implement this system so that Dutch people can also purchase stuff on Pinside. And this also goes for other localised payment systems in Germany, Belgium and many other countries.

True. As a shop keeper you will probably need to set up an account with them. But it takes no more than 15-20 minutes. Just like you once had to set up your Paypal account, probably decades ago

That's a fairly accurate summary, Vid.

I've been having a lot of technical issues with Paypal payments on Pinside in the past months. Heck, years when I think about it. Payments that fail without any specified reason. Tech support is near non-existent. Their backend lacks any kind of serious tools to debug errors. Their platform is slow, ridiculously outdated and their APIs are, frankly, one big mess.

Earlier this month, all of a sudden, payments in Pinside Shops stopped passing along address info. So I contacted their tech support once again. Sent them a bunch of info. Got back a silly reply. So I sent them more data. Request logs, response logs. That's nearly a week ago and I'm still waiting for a response. Meanwhile, some shop owners are pulling their hair out as their workflows rely on that address info.

What a mess.