[HCoop-Discuss] Improved Portal Payment Page Preview (Including Stripe!)

[Clinton Ebadi]

Clinton Ebadi <clinton at unknownlamer.org> writes:

> Jack Hill <jackhill at trilug.org> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Clinton Ebadi wrote:
>>
>>> This might complicate things a bit: for Stripe to work, we're relying on
>>> them charging a credit card which has a valid Name/Address associated
>>> with it (no gift cards etc.) and using that as weak identity
>>> verification.
>>
>> I'm a latecomer to this discussion, and my have misses something 
>> important, so feel free to point me at the Fine Manual.
>>
>> I have payed via PayPal (a one off payment, not a PayPal account) using 
>> gift cards without problem (as an aside, this is a great way to use gift 
>> cards since it makes it easy to spend them all the way down). Is that 
>> intentional? I can't remember if I made my first payment with a real card 
>> or not.
>
> After the initial payment the method shouldn't matter, but in theory
> we're requiring a Paypal account and not just a Paypal payment for the
> initial balance (AFAICT you can't just send money to an arbitrary
> address without an account) which should be requiring a card or bank
> account that matches the name on the account?

err, I hate replying to myself but: we *have* been required a paypal
confirmed address for new signups so I think we're ok.

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