Okay, I don't really know what I'm talking about here. Let's just get that up front and recognized. The president of the board for Soylent Phoenix is a pretty bad script kiddie and not a programmer at all.
But, we have a problem on SoylentNews with using Stripe for donating for membership. Paypal works on the site but some folks don't want to send them any business and Stripe is an acceptable alternative.
My brief reading of https://docs.stripe.com/js/including indicates there is such a thing as a Stripe.js module.
Would this help the site maintainers? Can they just drop a js module into the system? Like I said, I know nothing.
Do you know how to create a module? If you do maybe you could help the site to use one so that Stripe will work on SoylentNews without a lot of fiddling around, could you?
(Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Friday April 11, @06:50PM (1 child)
It's been a while, but I've set up Stripe for contract clients before. (No, I'm not committing to doing this for Soylent on a volunteer basis - I've never seen the code running Soylent, but from what I understand you have to bleach your brain afterwords, since it's about 25-year-old Perl.)
As described in the document you listed, you'll need to add their script tag to include their version of the JS module, so the header section of the checkout page at least will have to have:
(They recommend including it across the site, I'm curious what the privacy vs features tradeoff is there, it's worth discussing.)
There will be some custom HTML and JS you'll need to write in order to get it working.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 5, Interesting) by hopdevil on Saturday April 12, @03:11AM
I've done it before as well. They want to track user activity across as much of the site as possible to mitigate bots. It watches all manner of things, including mouse movement and key strokes.
One thing I'd be wary of is how you would mitigate bots using the site (your stripe token) to test stolen credit cards. I'm not sure how the liability shakes out, but it is a common occurrence and may be something to avoid.
(Score: 5, Funny) by turgid on Friday April 11, @08:06PM (3 children)
I went to renew my subscription via Stripe and it didn't work. Then I whinged. I didn't try PayPal because I have forgotten my PayPal password and I was in a hurry/too tired etc. Everything is so difficult these days. I want to retire and shout at clouds like my ancestors but I've got many years still to go. Don't get me started on Docker.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Informative) by chucky on Friday April 11, @08:38PM (2 children)
I was about to reply that sometimes you don’t need obscure payment systems, just tell your bank to pay amount X to bank account Y (as written on https://wiki.soylentnews.org/wiki/Soylent_Phoenix_-_Bank_Details) [soylentnews.org] and then I found that US banks don’t use IBAN…
(Score: 5, Interesting) by turgid on Friday April 11, @08:58PM (1 child)
I had a bit of bother trying to do a wire transfer from the UK to the USA recently. After four attempts and many phone calls, I admitted defeat. I wasted several $ in the process. Now the USA seems to be intent on cutting itself off completely from the rest of the world. Good luck to them. They'll need it.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Touché) by pkrasimirov on Saturday April 12, @06:56AM
It's pretty easy to cut itself off completely from the rest of the world:
Step 1. Start a war
Step 2. ...oh wait!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mrpg on Friday April 11, @09:36PM (1 child)
Anybody here has used Wise, Skrill, or Payoneer? Looking for personal experiences. Or family, or friends.
(Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Saturday April 12, @07:02AM
I used Skrill and Revolut. The latter is pretty convenient. I never actually did any server-side work with payments so I'll be silent and listening.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by kolie on Saturday April 12, @12:28AM (2 children)
The stripe module works great in rehash. There are some integration settings inside stripe that need to match on both ends. The account needs to be updated but without access to it its going to be hard to navigate the issue. Need to be able to see the logs on the stripe side to update properly.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday April 12, @06:39AM (1 child)
Have you asked Dale for access so that you can help him? You seem to know exactly what is required to fix the problem. I am sure he would appreciate it.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 2) by oregonjohn on Saturday April 12, @07:45PM
The board is researching the particulars of giving access to kolie. Paul is checking the by-laws and otherwise researching the issues involved. Access may happen in a business day or two since there is no obvious objection to it so far.