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GoCardless Resources
Company blog · gocardless.com/blogbusinessprogramming
GoCardless Resources is the company blog at gocardless.com, writing about business and programming. Since 2011, 90 different Hacker News readers have linked it 184 times, most often “Direct Debit API for 1%; max £2”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link GoCardless guides on SEPA mandates, Direct Debit and the UK Direct Debit Guarantee when explaining bank payments. Many other mentions are hiring posts or product pointers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Collect and send payments, minimise failures, and fight fraud. No more chasing payments and no expensive card fees.
Most-linked posts?
- Direct Debit API for 1%; max £216 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2012-01-26
- /jobs7 people · 26 mentions · first linked 2011-12-01
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-03-19
- When good controllers go bad: getting started with Coach4 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2017-09-26
- Debugging the Postgres query planner (2018)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-02-27
- How we built the new gocardless.com3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-05-21
- From idea to reality: containers in production at GoCardless3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-07-14
- /bank-account-data/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-09-23
- How to build a large Angular.js application2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-16
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-10
What Hacker News says?
It's not a token, but similar: Europe has Direct Debit mandates, which you give to the biller and they can be revoked. https://gocardless.com/guides/sepa/mandates/
Comment linking /guides/sepa/mandates/
on ““Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says”Submitted PostgreSQL HA cluster failure: a post-mortem as a story · 322 points
HN discussionThanks! That's something new that I didn't hear before. For interested parties seems [0] has some information. I need to check with my bank then to see how it works in my country. [0] https://gocardless.com/guides/sepa/introduction/
Comment linking /guides/sepa/introduction/
on “Amazon's customer service backdoor”Submitted Ditching responsive design as a story · 144 points
HN discussionIn the UK, and I think many other European countries, the direct debit system is very heavily slanted in favour of the customer. Here[1] is the UK Direct Debit Guarantee. It's extremely easy for the customer to reverse a transaction, and (advising the merchant) "Given the limited scope for appeals [against counterclaims] within the Direct Debit scheme, most disputes happen outside of it". https://gocardless.com/dire…
Comment linking /direct-debit/guarantee/
on “How I got to 200 productive hours a month”Submitted Direct Debit API for 1%; max £2 as a story · 127 points
HN discussionWe're looking into it at the moment. They seem like decent people. Their integration set-up isn't bad. As far as we can tell, there is only one catch, but it's a big one: you can only take payments from bank accounts within the reach of their direct debit system. That means UK-only today, and they've announced their intent to expand across Europe in "mid-2012" [1], but it's not clear when they might go any further.…
Comment linking /faq
on “Good riddance, PayPal”Submitted How to build a large Angular.js application as a story · 125 points
HN discussionGoCardless (YC S11) | London | DevOps, Data, Backend and Frontend Engineers | Onsite | Full-time & Interns | Visa (FT only) GoCardless is building a payments network for the internet. Since 2011 we've been focused on simplifying Direct Debit for small and medium companies (who previously had no access to it) and we're now expanding to serve the largest companies (think newspapers, utilities) and connect with existin…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted AngularJS Style Guide as a story · 118 points
HN discussionGoCardless (YC S11) | London | DevOps, Data, Backend and Frontend Engineers | Onsite | Full-time | Visa GoCardless is building a payments network for the internet. Since 2011 we've been focused on simplifying Direct Debit for small and medium companies (who previously had no access to it) and we're now expanding to serve the largest companies (think newspapers, utilities) and connect with existing payment systems in…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted Zero-downtime Postgres migrations – the hard parts as a story · 98 points
HN discussionACH is still the best https://gocardless.com/
Comment linking /
on “What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks”Submitted In search of performance – how we shaved 200ms off every POST request as a story · 87 points
HN discussionFor recurring/invoice transactions, you could use GoCardless: https://gocardless.com/en-ca/pricing/ We don't use debit/credit card networks but bank account->bank account networks like ACH, SEPA, etc. Not yet available in the US. Coming soon though.
Comment linking /en-ca/pricing/
on “Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud”Submitted Data-driven support as a story · 67 points
HN discussionGoCardless (YC S11) | London | SRE, Data, Backend and Frontend Engineers | Onsite | Full-time & Interns | Visa for Full-time GoCardless is building a payments network for the internet. Since 2011 we've been focused on simplifying Direct Debit for small and medium companies (who previously had no access to it) and we're now expanding to serve the largest companies (think newspapers, utilities) and connect with existi…
Comment linking /blog/getting-started-with-coach/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted Debugging the Postgres query planner (2018) as a story · 61 points
HN discussionGoCardless (YC S11) | London | SRE, Data, Backend and Frontend Engineers | Onsite | Full-time | Visa GoCardless is building a payments network for the internet. Since 2011 we've been focused on simplifying Direct Debit for small and medium companies (who previously had no access to it) and we're now expanding to serve the largest companies (think newspapers, utilities) and connect with existing payment systems in co…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted Rewriting from scratch as a story · 59 points
HN discussionGoCardless (YC S11) | London | Frontend, Backend, SRE | Onsite | Full-time GoCardless is building a payments network for the internet. Since 2011 we've been focused on simplifying Direct Debit for small and medium companies (who previously had no access to it) and we're now expanding to serve the largest companies (think newspapers, utilities) and connect with existing payment systems in countries all over the world…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted Rolling your own cloud phone system as a story · 53 points
HN discussionGoCardless (YC S11) | London | SRE, Data, Backend and Frontend Engineers | Onsite | Full-time | Visa GoCardless is building a payments network for the internet. Since 2011 we've been focused on simplifying Direct Debit for small and medium companies (who previously had no access to it) and we're now expanding to serve the largest companies (think newspapers, utilities) and connect with existing payment systems in co…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”Submitted Hutch: Inter-Service Communication with RabbitMQ as a story · 40 points
HN discussionHN Who’s Hiring Post GoCardless (YC S11) | London | SRE, Data, Backend, Full-Stack, andPre-sales/Solutions Engineers | Onsite | Full-time | Visa GoCardless is building a payments network for the internet. Since 2011 we've been focused on simplifying Direct Debit for small and medium companies (who previously had no access to it) and we've expanded to serve the largest companies (think newspapers, utilities) and conn…
Comment linking /blog/getting-started-with-coach/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted Hutch: Inter-Service Communication with RabbitMQ as a story · 28 points
HN discussionGoCardless | London (UK) | Onsite | Full Time | Visa | DevOps engineers We are building the payments network for the internet. Specifically our team is looking for a DevOps engineer to help scale our infrastructure so that the thousands of businesses using our service can take payments. We worked on some pretty cool projects this year like moving to a container-based infrastructure or building a system to perform no…
Comment linking /about/jobs/devops-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted Building APIs: lessons learned the hard way as a story · 20 points
HN discussionGoCardless (YC S11) | London | Frontend, Backend, SRE, Data Engineer | Onsite | Full-time & Interns | Visa GoCardless is building a payments network for the internet. Since 2011 we've been focused on simplifying Direct Debit for small and medium companies (who previously had no access to it) and we're now expanding to serve the largest companies (think newspapers, utilities) and connect with existing payment systems…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted Cooking up an Office Dashboard Pi as a story · 19 points
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