Subscriptions: Pay What You Want Support

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A discussion on the Subscriptions: Pay What You Want Support plugin is underway. Overgrow requested a one-time custom payment feature where the member (donor) can choose the amount. justin initially expressed concerns due to Stripe API limitations, but later reconsidered using the Charge API, though it’s a low priority for now. Overgrow pointed out that an old donations plugin achieved this and provided a GitHub link. justin researched custom payments and believes it’s feasible for one-time purchase tiers only, but not for recurring subscriptions due to Stripe’s limitations. Other users, such as 4ong, appreciate the plugin’s progress and also support the custom payment feature.

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Thanks for the time you are putting into this plugin and making it official..

Would you please consider also one-time custom payment where the amount is chosen by member (donor)? Thank you.

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Subscriptions: Allow users to purchase one-time products multiple times
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Unfortunately the Stripe API requires the price to be set at time of the price creation, so I do not believe this is possible.

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Old discourse donations plugin was doing just that..
Add custom amount input by angusmcleod · Pull Request #11 · chrisbeach/discourse-donations · GitHub

Not sure if this is compatible with your re-worked API.. :crossed_fingers:

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It might be possible to use the Charge API I suppose to do this. But it’s bottom of the list for now. Gotta get some other items completed first!

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I love seeing such a great updates, incredible job @justin!

May I please remind myself with this smallish feature request..

Thank you very much!

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It’s on my list to look at but right now we’re aiming to get this plugin officialized :smiley:

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It’s perfect to have this pluggin as official, thank you @justin
Custom payment will be a good feature too!

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I’ve been doing a bit of research on this in the last week. I believe the only way we’ll be able to reasonably implement custom payments is for one-time purchase tiers only. Due to the way subscriptions work in Stripe, it will not be feasible to implement pay-what-you-want on recurring subs.

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