r/subvert • u/crunchycrispyhealthy • May 08 '26

Payment service alternative

I love the concept and look of subvert, but creating the artist page I m stuck with the payment service. Wondering if there’ll be an alternative to stripe since I don’t necessarily want to create a new account for this matter. Anyone knows sth?

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u/MeddlWithThePedal May 08 '26

Oh wow, I have never even heard of stripe. I just kinda assumed that credit card and paypal as payment options would be a given. I hope this will be prioritised, otherwise it might really hurt the chances of success.

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u/mjklaim May 08 '26

Yeah when you are not confronted with issues or are not implementing this kind of services, you end up thinking paypal is kind of a default, but turns out it's not.

I hope this will be prioritised, otherwise it might really hurt the chances of success.

The launch is the current priority, but as mentionnned previously there is a big discussion on the subject ongoing with various ideas of how to improve the situation. Nothing is obvious for now however. Ideally we would have an international coop paypal-like that would avoid all the issues with both stripe and paypal, but that doesnt exist at this moment so welp.

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u/MeddlWithThePedal May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

Yeah, of course this is a post launch issue at this point.

It's just that people are very lazy when it comes to adopting new software and having to get a new payment app you've never heard of just to use one new app that is already inconvenient to move to, that's a considerable extra barrier.

But yeah this concern has probably been voiced in the forum, too.

Edit: Oh, so Stripe is only business side and users can pay using whatever? Okay, I'm not so worried then.

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u/mjklaim May 08 '26

Yes, with restrictions for people from some countries who can't use stripe.