I never heard of this until just now and this is my good friend that wrote the post.
It reminds me of Halo from the show Continuum. The early alpha version before it gets deeply integrated into your physical being.
Fast-forward 10 years and we'll be wearing these things, only they'll be called iBod and it will be a combination iWatch and iGlasses and freakishly integrated in our lives.
Thanks @billycoover. When I ran my business, I opted to use the web interface provided by Stripe instead of downloading PayPad. It just didn't do it for me, so we created the app we wanted to use. Not a whole lot more to it.
I've got 99 problems but too many push notifications telling me I made money, ain't one. :)
I have a couple things in the works that can help reduce the number of push notifications you get. For example, for my account, I'm only getting notifications for charges over $100.
Ping me (billy@pay-pad.com) and do some wizardry behind the scenes for you if filtering on the dollar amount would help you out.
1) No it's not open-source but I do plan on opening up the Stripe lib I've built.
2) Negative. That would be a great option but some Pay Pad users want the full featured access, including accepting payments from the device.
I think about this a lot... For example, from Pay Pay, what would be the ramifications if someone stole your phone and had access to your Stripe account?
Well there are three things that are pretty scary. They could 1) add new charges to your existing customers 2) refund existing customers, and 3) get names and email addresses of your customers.
Could you prevent this? Yes. Password protect your phone. If it does get stolen, go to Stripe and revoke access to the third party apps.
But I want to do better. One user left a review the other day and asked for the ability to "lock" the app. I haven't decided yet how I'll implement it but I do want to add an "optional" locking feature that adds yet another layer of protection to your Stripe account from the Pay Pad app.
Parse is cool, but the pricing is a deal breaker for me. According to their plans page (https://www.parse.com/plans), I'd need a pro account to enable multi-app push. Pay Pad is three apps actually so the combination of UrbanAirship and Webscript.io end up being a very cheap solution if I wanted to ditch my current implementation on Heroku.
Although I suppose you could get around the multi-push-certificate restriction with multiple Parse accounts. If you had two iOS apps, then you'd be making two web requests out to Parse. Although I do this now with UrbanAirship so there would not really be a difference. Interesting.
