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Aral Balkan

The initial integration of Paddle into Domain is now complete. I’m happy with how it turned out.

Now the only (“only” he says) bit left is reimplementing the provisioning and setup of Small Web servers running Kitten (or Kitten apps).

It‘s getting there…

:kitten: 💕

Screenshot of top of Payment page under Domain: Settings. Navigation on left has General section with Sign out link, Setup section with Organisation, Applications, Public Suffix List (PSL), Domain Name Service (DNS), Virtual Private Server (VPS) and Payment sections. Payment is selected and all sections have checkmarks next to them. Under that, still in navigation, is a Places section with View and Create links. On the main part of the page is a Provider drop-down with Paddle selected. Copy: Paddle Paddle is a merchant of record. (They sell the subscriptions for you and handle everything, including global tax remittance.) Paddle pays you on the 1st and 15th of the month. You must pay corporation tax on this income. If you are making money with your Small Web Domain, please consider sharing a percentage of your earnings with Small Technology Foundation by becoming a patron so we can continue to develop the software you use to host your community. [checkmark] Your Paddle settings are correct. Heading: You’re using the sandbox. Switch control (off): Live (start taking actual payments) In the sandbox environment no actual payments will be taken. Please make sure everything works as expected before going live. Instructions (page continues in next screenshot)
Page continues from previous screenshot: Heading: Instructions Instructions 1. Get a Paddle account. 2. Read Stay Small! and Paddle’s Data Processing Addendum (GDPR). 3. Generate your API keys in both the sandbox and live environments. 4. Create a subscription plan in both the sandbox and live environments. The plan name, custom message, and icon are not important as they’re overriden by Domain. Set them to values that make sense for you. Set the other options according to the table below: Table has Setting and Value columns: Setting: Billing Interval, Value: Monthly Setting: Trial Period, Value: 0 Setting: Enable quantity (checkbox), Value: unchecked Finally, under Subscription Plan Pricing, set your default currency and price (please make this a round number; don’t use psychological pricing to manipulate people) and check any other currencies you want to support (Paddle handles currency conversions for you automatically at checkout). 5. Enter your API and subscription details from your Paddle account into the form below. Heading: Sandbox environment Label: Vendor ID (from here) (Page continues in next screenshot)
Page continues from previous screenshot: 5. Enter your API and subscription details from your Paddle account into the form below. Heading: Sandbox environment Form: Label: Vendor ID (from here [link]) Text input: 12211 Label: Vendor Auth Code (secret API Key; from here [link]) Password input with lots of dots in it. Label: Subscription Plan ID (from here [link]) Text input: 51009 Heading: Live environment Label: Vendor ID (from here [link]) Text input: 170742 Label: Vendor Auth Code (secret API Key; from here [link]) Password input with lots of dots in it. Label: Subscription Plan ID (from here [link]) Text input: 829367 [Save button] (Page continues in next screenshot)
(Page continues from previous screenshot.) Stay small! Commercial payments support in Domain is designed for small organisations that serve their communities. It is simple by design. You only have one plan and we ask that you please also set prices in whole numbers (don’t use so-called “psychological pricing” to manipulate people). These limitations are not bugs, they are features to encourage a Small Web. The idea is that no single Small Web Domain should scale beyond a certain point. Your Small Web Domain should be serving your community and you should let other Small Web Domains serve theirs. This is our non-colonial approach as per the Small Technology Principles. Support for a commercial option is necessary for organisations that have to exist under capitalism. It doesn’t mean we have to play their shortsighted manipulative games or adopt their success criteria. The goal is for our organisations to provide a bridge to a post-capitalist future (e.g., on where cities can use tokens to provide their citizens with access to the commons from the commons). You will not become rich by running a Small Web Domain. If that’s your goal, please look elsewhere. However, you will hopefully be able to subsist under capitalism while helping bootstrap a kinder, fairer, and more caring world based on respect for human rights and democracy. This is a Small Web host powered by Domain. … Released with 💕 under the AGPL Version 3.0 license. Like this? Fund us!
#Domain#Kitten#SmallWeb
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Aral Balkan

Yep, it looks like I’m going with Paddle (paddle.com) as the first supported payment system for Domain*.

(Barring any issues with getting our use case approved.)

So, asking again: does anyone know anyone that works at ? Would love to talk to them about what we’re trying to do with the Small Web and Kitten ** and Domain and hopefully have them support our use case.

* codeberg.org/domain/app
** codeberg.org/kitten/app

www.paddle.comPaddle - Payments, tax and subscription management for SaaS and digital productsWe are the merchant of record for B2B & B2C software businesses. Helping increase global conversions, reducing churn, staying compliant, and scaling up fast.
#MoR#MerchantOfRecord#Domain
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Aral Balkan

I’m sure you’re all riveted to hear my next niche micro-update on finding a payment solution to integrate into ¹ but I’m actually reconsidering . The more I think about it, the less custom logic there is in Domain to handle payment providers the better. A very lightweight abstraction over embedding a form and handling should make it easier to add others in the future at the cost of more setup in the payment provider itself.

¹ codeberg.org/domain/app

Codeberg.orgappDomain is a free and open Small Web hosting platform.
#SmallWeb
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Aral Balkan

Right, so I signed up with Paddle and with FastSpring (also a merchant of record) and I don’t think Paddle is going to work as you can’t create subscription plans via their API. In FastSpring you can so I’m going to continue to looking at that. So, to update my query:

Anyone know anyone at FastSpring they can introduce me to or have any experiences with them they can share with me?

(I may still end up going with .)

Thanks!

#Paddle#FastSpring#paymentServices
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Aral Balkan

Anyone here know anyone from Paddle that you can put me in touch with? (Or share your experience with them?)

I’m reconsidering whether Stripe is the right solution for the initial payments option in Domain (codeberg.org/domain/app) or whether it makes more sense (and would be easier for folks who want to run their own Domain instances and become Small Web hosts) if I integrated a Merchant of Record (MoR) solution instead.

Codeberg.orgappDomain is a free and open Small Web hosting platform.
#SmallWeb#commerce#Domain
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