from Hacker News

CardFlight, The Stripe For Real-World Payments, Has Raised $1.6 Million

by timsaunders on 10/2/13, 6:02 PM with 15 comments

  • by jonahx on 10/2/13, 7:07 PM

    I'm a bit confused about what these guys do even after reading that article. Could someone clarify?
  • by Miyamoto on 10/2/13, 6:58 PM

    > While other companies like Square and PayPal have provided businesses with the ability to collect payments with mobile credit card readers, businesses are reliant on the provider’s apps to process those payments. CardFlight provides its clients with card readers, and also gives them an SDK to build payment processing into their own branded apps.

    Does Square have any future intent to allow this?

  • by satjot on 10/2/13, 6:31 PM

    I have a friend who runs Zuldi Co has probably spent month and months (and thousands of dollars) looking for a solution like this. He sells point of sale ordering systems so waiters and waitresses can take orders and accept payment at bars/restaurants/casinos etc.
  • by saym on 10/2/13, 8:38 PM

    So, What's CardFlight's revenue model? Looks like a useful service.
  • by fivethree on 10/2/13, 9:33 PM

    Not really germane to the topic, but I really dislike people that pitch their company as, "<existing company> for <demographic>." I get it lets you easily convey what you do since it's really just an improve version of an existing thing. Let your product stand on it's own. Sell what it does and why it's better. Not, "Like this existing thing, but fit into this subset?"
  • by dhyasama on 10/2/13, 7:05 PM

    Congrats from ff, Tim! We're all looking forward to helping CardFlight grow.
  • by skspeeds on 10/2/13, 11:53 PM

    been following these guys for a while - wish we had this in the early days of our app when we did more on-the-ground sales to customers within our app.