Stripe Donations Plugin

[kimardenmiller (Kim Miller)]

@ChrisBeach looking to fork discourse-paid-pinning or discourse-donations to start a membership plugin around a similar paradigm / borrow your check out & and rewards controller. Should we borrow a combo of the two, since discourse-donations is closer to what we’re building but discourse-paid-pinning is newer, tests are passing, and perhaps some things improved?

Has one else out there has done a membership plugin along your lines, where?:

• Users can get to a basic site, whereupon they can then

• Access important groups / categories is behind a paywall.

We’re currently using Memberful, but don’t like their SSO approach that disables site invites, hides membership status from within Discourse, and is expensive. We’d like to take and extend what discourse-donations does to:

• Have the rewards access expire after a period

• Message users to renew, then

• Remove user from the reward group after membership expires.

[ChrisBeach (Chris)]

Hi @kimardenmiller,

Please do fork the paid pinning plugin if possible as it’s more up to date. Its tests are passing… because it barely has any However, I’ve been using it successfully on my sites for a while now.

Bear in mind the following note, which I received from Stripe and have not yet actioned:

Hello,

On 14 September 2019, a new European regulatory requirement called Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) will introduce two-factor authentication requirements for many online payments in Europe. We expect this regulation to be enforced in the UK regardless of the outcome of Brexit. Payments that aren’t authenticated will be declined by your customers’ banks.

We’ve released a new payments API and SCA-ready products to help you prepare for this change. To get ready for these new rules and avoid having many European payments declined, you’ll need to make changes to your payment flows and Stripe integration by 14 September 2019. Read our docs to learn more about SCA and the required changes.

Read the docs

If you have any questions, please let us know.

Thanks,
The Stripe Team

[kimardenmiller (Kim Miller)]

Thanks @ChrisBeach!

Our org is all in the San Francisco Bay Area, so no EU / Brexit issues here .

We’ll start with paid-pinning and pull over the rewards logic, which fits our membership application fairly closely. Went looking in AdvertiseController for similar to rewards, but got confused with requires_plugin 'discourse-plugin-stripe'. Is that code outside paid-pinning? Where does discourse-plugin-stripe live?

[ChrisBeach (Chris)]

Went looking in AdvertiseController for similar to rewards, but got confused with requires_plugin 'discourse-plugin-stripe' . Is that code outside paid-pinning? Where does discourse-plugin-stripe live?

[sorry for taking ages to respond. Recently became a parent and my former life has disintegrated!]

That’s a good question about discourse-plugin-stripe. This name is from a previous incarnation of the code, and the line it appears on is probably dead code. I am a rookie Discourse / Ruby developer and achieved this plugin via a lot of trial and error.

Apologies for the code quality and I would definitely appreciate PRs or comments from more experienced developers.

[kimardenmiller (Kim Miller)]

Apologies for the code quality and I would definitely appreciate PRs or comments from more experienced developers.

Thanks @ChrisBeach. We’ll see where things go with it once we get started on this project early this fall.

[rimian (Rimian Perkins)]

I have been working on a simpler fork of discourse-donations here: https://github.com/rimian/discourse-patrons

It has a simple payment page for one-off donations with an admin interface. I am adding support for subscriptions etc, targets, etc.

Many thanks to @ChrisBeach and @angus nice work!

[kimardenmiller (Kim Miller)]

We decided to go in the direction of extending Procourse Memberships.

[ezworldwide]

Thanks for putting the work into this. My community found this very useful and preferred donating directly on the site as opposed to leaving it. I was disappointed when I had to remove the plugin. Donations came to a screeching halt too. I’m happy to donate to you for working on this!

[rimian (Rimian Perkins)]

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I have been away

I’d gladly accept donations! That would be very kind. I guess you could DM and I’ll give you my paypal.

[Paul_King]

Hi, I installed the donations plugin, but see it can’t be configured to accept one off donations in New Zealand Dollars (where nearly all my forum users reside) - how do I add NZD to the currencies list?

I see a note suggesting currency is changeable with subscription plan settings - but users are not looking to set up a subscription plan - only make donations. A recurring donation option would be good to offer - but because it is purely a donation I would not want to impose an amount.

[rimian (Rimian Perkins)]

Hi Paul,

I added NZD to the default currencies on discourse-subscriptions. I hope to add more currencies in the future.

Enjoy!

[Paul_King]

Cheers Rimian! Will give it a try

[craigconstantine]

Sorry to wade in here… this is a long thread, and it’s not clear to me:

I’m looking for a plugin that I can install on Hosted Discourse to accept donations via Strip (one-time payments with no connected membership, access, groups, etc – just a way to pay me money) … there seem to be multiple plugins mentioend in this thread… ??

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

You should contact Discourse team through the email mentioned in your dashboard. You’ll probably have to get on their enterprise tier to get such a plugin installed.