Hi, I’m just implementing subscription payments into my website and want to allow customers to pay either by card (stripe), paypal or even with crypto (further down the line). I just had a couple questions on best practices for this implementation.
Would it be best to use the dj-stripe app and the paypal app and yet another app for crypto, with all their respective separate models? Or does anyone know if there’s a cleaner version e.g. using django-plans or something similar to centralize the subscription data instead of having it separated into stripe, paypal, crypto models? Of course the flip side of this is, despite the bloat, using the dj-stripe, django-paypal and whatever crypto app is probably the best choice in terms of maintainability, but it just feels so clunky having each of those apps installed and only using them for certain subsets of subscribers.
Part of me is tempted just to use django-paddle as that allows for stripe and paypal payments integrated as one, plus with the tax already taken care of - but this feels like too much vendor lock in. Plus Stripe is now offering some pretty good tax reporting tools.
I guess my main question, if anyone can offer any advice, is what is your advice on integrating multiple payment channels for a subscription SaaS? Such that we’re balancing out maintainability (least custom code as possible - so leaning on apps more) with simplicity (ideally one or fewest models containing subscriber data).
Does it even matter that much if, for example, I installed dj-stripe, django-paypal and some other crypto app and use them all individually but on the same site? Maybe this wouldn’t be as messy and ugly as I’m tempted to think it would be. Would this cause performance concerns?
Anyway, thank you for taking the time to read this. Would love and appreciate any advice, thanks.
