Test new Stripe payment methods in QA

[ferristocrat]

Objective

Our goal is to enable new payment methods in Stripe Test to see how they work (or don't) in QA. We suspect that the Stripe component used will simply work, but want to test in QA.

We are doing this to better support customers in Europe who do not use credit cards.

Acceptance

• The following payment methods are added to Stripe test QA environment:
  • Payment methods - try GooglePay, SEPA, and any others that seem promising. If any of them don't work, it is no problem; just document what you tried
• For each payment method check if:
  • User can add payment method
  • Account properly "upgraded" to pro when the payment method is added
  • Payment method successful when generating invoices
• Most likely, some of these payment methods will require code changes. Try to estimate what level of effort is involved in these code changes, and where the code changes would need to be (UI? backend billing code?)
• Share notes about whether or not each of these payment methods worked, so that we can create specific tickets to update billing code to support new payment methods

[storjrobot]

This issue has been mentioned on Storj Community Forum (official). There might be relevant details there:

https://forum.storj.io/t/accepting-paypal-as-a-payment-method-on-storj/25513/81

[VitaliiShpital]

Hey @dorrie55! I've completed testing SEPA Direct Debit as a valid payment method in our system for recurring payments. The issue is that it requires the invoice currency to be in Euros.

https://github.com/storj/storj/assets/46756926/40078fdb-b09f-44dd-9f50-772a6c81d4c9

[dorrie55]

Thanks for the update

So does this mean it’s not a solution we can accommodate? -- Dorrie Chung Chief Financial Officer

On Apr 1, 2024, at 7:45 AM, Vitalii Shpital @.***> wrote:

Hey @dorrie55 https://github.com/dorrie55! I've completed testing SEPA Direct Debit as a valid payment method in our system for recurring payments. The issue is that it requires the invoice currency to be in Euros.

https://github.com/storj/storj/assets/46756926/40078fdb-b09f-44dd-9f50-772a6c81d4c9 https://github.com/storj/storj/assets/46756926/40078fdb-b09f-44dd-9f50-772a6c81d4c9 image.png (view on web) https://github.com/storj/storj/assets/46756926/f4bc5d56-9c68-4767-8697-137334609984 — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/storj/storj/issues/6868#issuecomment-2029872004, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ARPKSSCH3AMNY2QE6SFSQTDY3FXIVAVCNFSM6AAAAABEYXQDAKVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDAMRZHA3TEMBQGQ. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.

[VitaliiShpital]

@dorrie55 actually, there is a slack thread where @kaloyan-raev shared this idea

Perhaps, we could allow it only for the EU1 satellite and make the pricing and charges there in EUR instead of in USD.

https://storj.slack.com/archives/C0490040EDR/p1711979690902129

[VitaliiShpital]

Also, @dorrie55, we don't need to do anything to support payment methods added from Google Pay, as this functionality has already been implemented by Wilfred and is currently hidden behind a feature flag. We should just figure out why it's disabled by default and that's it. Please check the video.

https://github.com/storj/storj/assets/46756926/017085f4-0fc5-4e8c-a005-836bf5878ac8

[NiaStorj]

@ferristocrat please reach out to Dorrie to discuss further

[VitaliiShpital]

also, @dorrie55! Apple pay can also be enabled in production just by enabling Stripe Elements which are behind a feature flag

https://github.com/storj/storj/assets/46756926/85366bf6-67de-4e6d-abf7-462e4cd22832