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Welcome back in this section of the course we're going to talk about accepting straight payments with

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a flask application stripe is a company that allows you to easily integrate their API to web applications

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to accept payments.

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Basically all you have to do is add in a few lines of code after you've already registered for your

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own API.

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Q A stripe and connected your bank account in order to accept payments from other users who visit your

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web application and then you can decide what to do with those users after they've given you a payment.

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For example you may decide to ship them some product that you're selling or give them access to a particular

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web page.

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Upon payment you should also note that if you're starting from zero and trying to build out your own

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online store there's actually already many platforms that provide the ability to quickly create an online

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store.

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For example one of the more popular ones is called Shopify.

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I would highly suggest you try to check out preexisting solutions before starting from zero and building

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out your entire flask application for something like an online store which is a really common problem

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that a lot of people have already solved through a third party service.

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You should really be using Strype when you're trying to create an application where your actual deliverable

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in exchange for money is to customize for existing services.

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For example maybe you're trying to accept donations for your particular cause.

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In that case you could use many other services.

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There's things like Kickstarter in the gogo or just other platforms for accepting donations.

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But if you want to create your own particular flask application web site and you still want to accept

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money Strype might be the solution for you.

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All I'm trying to say is these sort of tasks are complicated enough that a lot of people have already

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given out third party solutions for them including Strype.

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So sometimes the best course of action is not actually programming yourself.

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However if you've come to the conclusion that yes I do need to program the ability to set payments on

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my own web site myself Strype is a really nice solution because of just a few lines of code.

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You can accept credit cards and debit cards from users all over the world and Strype basically handles

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everything for you.

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It's handles grabbing money from their bank account and then sending it over to yours on the Bakken

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with Strype OK.

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Now on top of that Strype is really easy to use and has really great documentation.

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So we're going to be doing and this section is walking through creating a very basic donation Web site

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that basically just accepts payments with a flask application using streite I think you'll see just

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how easy it is to accept money of Strype and we'll be using some fake API keys that Strype puts out

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publicly to kind of mimic the idea of the transaction.

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If you actually want to accept real money you would need to create a straight account.

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Keep in mind Strype those charge a percentage which I believe right now is 3 percent plus about 3 cents

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per transaction.

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I would recommend that you check out their web site for the latest documentation on what their current

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fee is.

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But it should be around 3 percent.

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OK let's get started in the next lecture will actually begin building out this donation application.