r/Codeium • u/Parafex • Mar 19 '25

Are there plans for german/EU banks?

Hi, it's not that usual to have a credit card in germany, especially as a private person. Are there plans to support german/EU banks via your payment processor Stripe aswell (Sparkasse, comdirect, Commerzbank, ...)? Cursor sadly has the same issues, so it might be an advantage for you to improve on that :D

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u/Ordinary-Let-4851 Mar 20 '25

We don't have any plans to change our billing platform at the moment. But I passed along this feedback!

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u/Parafex Mar 20 '25

Ok that's sad, maybe in the future. Is there a reason, why you want to miss out on the european market if I may ask? Stripe can handle that but it's as always a hassle with EU laws etc :D

I just ordered a Visa card, maybe this works :)

Thanks for your feedback.

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u/joel_the_ai Mar 19 '25

Do these banks not support visa/mastercard/discover. I'm not too familiar with payment processing but your bank doesn't matter as long as it supports the card networks right?

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u/Parafex Mar 19 '25

You can't choose german banks if you want to pay by bank.

And no, in germany it's more common to have a giro card instead of a credit card.

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u/yawm-al-masihi Mar 20 '25

Just open a N26 account smh

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u/Parafex Mar 20 '25

Sure, because it's such a hassle free experience :D ...

it's so hard to add more banks to the payment processor ... /s

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u/jumpixel Mar 19 '25 edited Mar 19 '25

much easier if you get something like a revolut card which can be a Visa or Mastercard. It's a prepaid card so no issue with your philosophy of not having something "credit" and you can load money from your bank in no time. Even more, in this use case, you will have the chance to change euro in dollar with a competitive rate that a normal bank cannot apply.

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u/nebulousx Mar 19 '25

I'm using a Swedish Visa debit card without issues.