It’s important to note that this in no way affects what we’ve already released in our product. We’re still doing in-stream credit card payments on Facebook today, and that’s still very much active.

In addition to that, we have support for putting our links on YouTube. Through our button, we also enable you to embed the whole process on your own website, blog, WordPress, or Tumblr.

One very important new update that was unfortunately over-shadowed yesterday is our pricing change, something we’ve spent a lot of time working on implementing. At 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction, we’re now competitive with the biggest players in payments and – unlike any of the competition – can help you sell across more platforms.

On a personal note, the amount of support we’ve received from everybody has been overwhelming. What we have shown yesterday is that our vision and product are extremely well-received. That’s what motivates us every day.

Stay tuned for more from us. This was just the beginning and, if you thought that was cool, wait until what we’re planning to do next!

–
Hany Rashwan
Co-founder & CEO, Ribbon

To get started, just head to Ribbon, and add a product. You’ll now be able to add products based on categories — Physical, Digital, Service, Tickets & Donations. For Donations, just checkmark “Name your own price,” and you’re all set!

Professional musician and producer Eric Harland is using Ribbon to accept donations for his upcoming “Eric Harland Voyager Tour” through Facebook, Twitter, and his website.

If you have any questions, comments or feedback, we’re always listening.

Ribbon will be powering sales for the Relay for Life event in Glendale, Colorado from April until August. 50% of every transaction amounting to $20 will be donated towards a Relay for Life team.

It’s truly an honor for us to work with great organizations like the American Cancer Society, and we can’t wait to work with many more, especially with our brand new Donation feature.

If your nonprofit organization would like to partner with Ribbon to help raise funds, please email jeff @ ribbon.co, and we’d love to chat.

At around 12:24 PM PST, with no heads up, our integration of Twitter Cards was taken down, and now Ribbon links go back to Ribbon.co without the in-stream buying experience.

Before we released this, we made sure to validate our Twitter Card implementation (screenshot below), and all lights were green. We’ve had discussions with Twitter in the past, and are eager to find a way to work together. This is clearly something that’s good for not only Twitter, but also for Twitter users all over the world.

We look forward to seeing what happens in the future regarding this.

We have spent a considerable amount of time and effort building up our infrastructure. This gives us a great advantage over our competition and gives us more freedom in what we can build.

That’s why today, we’re very happy to announce something we’ve been working on making a reality for a while. Our new pricing will be 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction. This is a monumental change and one we hope can support all of our amazing customers. Pricing should now never be an issue.

Ribbon has always competed strongly on providing the best features and being the only true in-stream payments company.

Today, we’re also competing directly on price.

Just add a product to Ribbon as you would normally do, and now any tweet containing your Ribbon link will expand to reveal a payment form for buyers to transact right in-stream. This streamlined payment experience has also been optimized for mobile, so your buyers can also purchase on the go, directly from within their Twitter feed. And all of this happens without ever leaving Twitter.

Check out the new payment experience by creating a Ribbon product and tweeting it out!

Through an integration with YouTube, creators can now include Ribbon URL’s directly in YouTube videos through the Merch Annotations function that will link to Ribbon checkout pages. For more information on Merch Annotations, check out YouTube’s blog post.

Annotations have typically been reserved for linking to channels and other videos, but with this partnership, Ribbon URL’s have been whitelisted, and you can link outside of YouTube easily.

To enable this feature, make sure your YouTube account has monetization turned on, and is Partner status. Once that’s done, you should be all set!

Simon joins us from Palantir, where he was a Server Side Quality Engineer. Prior to joining Palantir, Simon worked in Los Angeles at Symantec as a Software QA Engineer. David joins us from Chec, an eCommerce/payments company he helped found.

We’re excited to have both Simon and David join the Ribbon team.

We have now added detailed documentation which you can view at https://www.ribbon.co/api. There’s also a site using the API on Github written in Ruby (Sinatra) if you would like to take a look at a sample app.

There are still many things we plan on adding to the API. We’re excited to see how you end up using it and are here to answer any questions. Just shoot an email to dev@ribbon.co and share all the cool things you’re building! In the next few weeks, we will also start sharing some of our favorite use-cases.

After numerous whiteboard sessions with our team, we came up with an elegant process that would work on all screen resolutions focusing on accessibility and speed. From any mobile device or tablet, you can login, add a product, take a photo, upload it, and share & sell that item within minutes, as well as access your order history or payout. All of your products and product history can be viewed from your desktop, phone or tablet.

We were determined to make our service easy to use no matter what device you are using. See it in action for yourself and use your device’s browser and type in ribbon.co and give it a whirl. You’ll be glad you did.