As can be seen, no substantial difference can be observed between stripes processed with CH3 plasma and stripes without any treatment.
The local current is significantly reduced (two orders of magnitude) on the stripes processed with plasma, with respect to the ones without plasma treatment.
As a point of comparison, Stripe's CEO Patrick Collison told me today that Stripe processes "billions of dollars a year for thousands of businesses in 18 countries around the world".
While Stripe processes payments for cards — including Alibaba's popular Alipay service in China — Omise covers a host of other methods, including internet banking, direct debt, and over-the-counter.
Stripe processes payments for some of the biggest tech companies, including Facebook and Twitter, as well as others like Lyft, Shopify, TaskRabbit, Instacart, Rackspace, Postmates, Handybook, Salesforce, OpenTable, Bigcommerce, Reddit, Squarespace, WuFoo, and many others.
"Processing credit card payments ourselves would mean PCI compliance and supporting a host of different credit card types, and dealing directly with the banks that do the clearing," says Foursquare's Jason Liszka, who also uses Stripe to process payments on Foursquare, "Stripe's API abstracts away all these complications and lets us focus on our core business".
With Stripe, the process takes just a couple of minutes.
He shared that Walmart's Goodies.co is now using Stripe to process payments.
The company also takes a 1percenttransactionon fee for invoicing, but as the company uses Stripe to process payments, the total charge comes up to 3.9percentt.
To some extent, even the Stripe investment went through some reality checks: "We looked at the most sophisticated global technology companies — Facebook, Twitter, Kickstarter — and they all use Stripe to process payments," says Hideo Shimada, Chairman of Sumitomo Mitsui Card Corporation, in a statement.
