I wonder how they are able to pay for 3rd party transactions with Stripe? Charging the customer's credit card with Stripe then paying with your own payment method incurs a transaction fee and potentially chargebacks
(Disclaimer: co-founder of Perssist, a tech-enhanced virtual assistant service)
Yes I wonder too. They're storing the card in Stripe. But then they're paying the Pizza joint for the Pizza (who probably doesn't have a Stripe account) So they're charging your card against their Stripe account and then I assume using their own cards to charge for the Pizza manually. It seems like that'll have some scale challenges.
(Disclaimer: I work at Spreedly where we see a lot of these cross merchant/PCI compliant services launching.
(Disclaimer: co-founder of Perssist, a tech-enhanced virtual assistant service)