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active_merchant
Ruby2015–2021
activemerchant / active_merchant

active_merchant

Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.

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What it is

Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-11-26 23:32:29 UTC to 2021-12-28 11:47:23 UTC.

012015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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I just want to make a note that Tobi (Shopify's CEO) has made great contributions to Rails open source ecosystem with projects like Liquid and ActiveMerchant, which he started: - https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/commits?author=tobi - https://github.com/activemerchant/active_merchant/commits?au... We leverage these projects daily, so it's awesome to see his company doing so well. In addition, we're on Shopify's platform as a app developer, so his company has added a lot of value, both commercially and non-commercially to developers, not just e-commerce merchants. Kudos to them.
In Now Bigger Than eBay, Shopify Sets Its Sights on Amazon
Is 20% just a guess? SaaS companies want to automate as much as possible. If there's a payment provider offering to cash in checks or make wire transfer less of hassle then that's good. At some point through it gets too complex to support 3-4 payment providers. So most just choose one unless they really see "money on the table", which would require customers to ask for a certain payment method. https://www.bspayone.com/DE/en/services/payments is a German company offering some methods you've likely never heard of, even paying cash at a supermarket (you receive a barcode, then you pay online by scanning it with your mobile phone). There must be 100s in the world. Here's a list what Spree Commerce supports, payone isn't even on the list https://github.com/activemerchant/active_merchant#supported-...
In Ask HN: Why most SaaS companies are leaving money on table
> If someone hacks the app using your library. Sorry, but I still don't understand what you mean here. There could be a bug in the library in the same manner that there could be bugs in any other open source library. Could those bugs become a security issue for your app? Yes, they could. Despite of this we all use open source software, right? Let's say you were using Active Merchant[1], would you sue Shopify if someone hacked your app to process irregular payments through your Bank's payment gateway (accessed by Active Merchant [2])? [1] https://github.com/activemerchant/active_merchant [2] https://github.com/activemerchant/active_merchant/tree/maste...
In How banks are getting around open banking and PSD2

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