PayPal Purge nebuminding

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Danny and I have been nebuminding the purging of paypal from Beeminder’s payments, but the project has still managed to suffer diffusion of responsibility and scope creep and generally Mustela-ish behavior, so we’re moving the nebuminding record to the public, here.

The goal has a rate of only 5 words per day, and an autoratchet of 7 days, so we should theoretically be able to check in once a week and do some progress towards purging paypal, summarize here, and then eventually paypal will be gone?

The last thing we did publicly re purging paypal was to send an email offering a honey money incentive to people with paypal as their default paytype if they change to something else.

There are currently:

  • 2795 users with paypal as their paytype
  • 2553 of them have only paypal
  • 73 of them have added data in the last month

Our goal: come up with a next step to take towards being able to remove paypal from the payments infrastructure. In otherwords we need to move those 2000+ people off of paypal. Most of them are inactive, so there’s not really any lost revenue from switching them.

TODO:

  • Decide an action to take (just remove their paypal? delete their account if they don’t switch? offer more incentives?)
  • Decide on the subset to execute this next step on
  • Draft the email / rake task to do it
  • Do it
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But you can still buy H$ with Paypal at the end of all this, right?

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As one-off purchases I think this should be easy enough to keep supporting. I think Stripe may even support this by now? Having PayPal as a payment-method-on-file to be able to charge for future derailments is mainly what we want to purge.

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Last I checked Stripe only supports Paypal payments based on the “presentment currency”, but also based on the location of the Stripe account accepting the payment, which currently does not include the US, or USD. (See both “Presentment currency” under the Payment method properties, and “Country availability” at PayPal payments | Stripe Documentation)

That said, the cost of supporting one-off honey-purchase transactions via paypal, that is much less costly (in terms of tech debt) than integrating paypal as part of the default payments cycle. But buying honey in one-off transactions, that could still be available.