sendgrid-nodejs VS Stripe

Setting up DKIM may sound technical, but modern email providers (ESP) and services have made it straightforward. As a SaaS company, you’ll typically use an email sending service (like Sidemail, SendGrid, Mailgun, etc.) or your own mail server to send emails. Let’s break down the setup process:

I am using SendGrid to send transactional emails. It is a little pricey, but the deliverability is great. It is important for me and my team to maintain good reputation on both our domain and IP address. This means that we need to monitor the email delivery and engagement metrics.

You will notice that the default email provider is sendmail, this is for local development. However, for production-ready applications, we will be using SendGrid as our email provider.

Sendgrid – Email delivery and management.

Select an API Service: For this guide, we’ll use SendGrid.

Sign in to SendGrid, set up your API key, and verify your sender email.

SendGrid account: Sign up for a free account.

Plunk: An open-source email platform built on AWS SES. It allows you to easily send emails from your applications. It can be seen as a self-hosted alternative to services like SendGrid, Resend, or Mailgun.

Sendgrid - Email delivery service

Sorry to disappoint, but Stripe is not an open source project, nor is it a major release. The reason it's here is because Stripe just shipped a bunch of updates for their open source projects. Someone must have been doing some spring cleaning 🧹 - or is it fall cleaning in the Northern Hemisphere 🤔? Whatever is it, Stripe have a tonne of new updates for you including Stripe .NET 47.0, Stripe Node 17.0, Stripe PHP 16.0, Stripe Ruby 13.0, and Stripe Python 11.0. Each of these is a library for accessing Stripe's API from applications written in .NET, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, and Python respectively. These are all updates based on changes to the Stripe API and SDK. Click on each one to check out their breaking changes.

First let's introduce the tool: Sorbet is a gem developed by Stripe that aims to bring type notation syntax and type checking support for the Ruby ecosystem by utilizing the "Gradual typing" philosophy, it also provide type generation from YARD comments via the tapioca gem, allowing to grow alongside the already built Ruby codebase.

The problem is stripe.com charges 4.6% total in fees. Wise charges 1.89%.

For me Stripe is the peak for a product/company website:

https://stripe.com/

I heard some people admire https://linear.app/ but I don't see the appeal myself

Majority of websites often fall into one of two categories:

1. Traditional off the shelf template

2. Look cool but fail when it comes to usability and robustness (those featured on awwwards)

You could have the best service in the world, but if you have a payment gateway that leaves people feeling uncomfortable, you'll lose them. Not only that, but you have PCI compliance you would need to deal with and a slew of other things that are handled for you with a payment vendor like Stripe, Square, or PayPal.

Your payment and data is processed safely through Stripe. We are verified and also accept Paypal.

First you'll want to go to Stripe's website and setup an account. Then install Stripe with pip install stripe. In this example I'm using Flask for the backend and React for the frontend. The website is an e-commerce page for buying and selling skateboards. Now create some models for the product to sell and the receipts then run flask db init, flask db migrate, and flask db upgrade to create the database. My models look like so:

Kick uses a Payment Processor called Stripe

I did that with Vue and Laravel a few times. If you need Stripe data linked to a user account your best bet is Laravel Cashier. Otherwise you'll have to use the PHP SDK.

stripe allows issuing cards, similar to how cash app, Venmo and other payment platforms issues cards to users. I’ve personally never issued a card but the documentation is there and should be simple!