Options to manage payments for paid Discourse communities

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Vessy_Tasheva is seeking alternatives to Memberful for managing payments in their paid Discourse community, specifically looking for a solution that integrates with Discourse, handles VAT calculation and display, and sends data like VAT number, billing country, and IP address to Stripe for use with Quaderno. rishabh suggests the Discourse Subscriptions plugin, which uses Stripe. Jonster shares a similar need for tracking international VAT for B2B sales and asks if Vessy has found an effective solution.

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Hey, I’m currently using Memberful to manage the payments for my paid Discourse community.

What other options are out there that would allow me to manage the subscriptions?

I’m looking for something that integrates with Discourse and allows me to collect VAT on in (it calculates it and displays it automatically to the user).

Ideally, it’s a solution that pushes the following to Stripe:

  • VAT number
  • billing country
  • IP address

so that I can use Quaderno to get a summary of the various international VAT taxes that I’m liable for.

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The Discourse Subscriptions Plugin plugin uses Stripe, have you tried that out?

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Hi Vessy.
We have the same need. We are selling subscriptions B2B within the EU and other countries, and have to know and report to our tax authorities who buys something and from where they are.

Did you solve this in any effective way?