You can now subscribe to Intervals.icu using PayPal and several other payment methods. The payment methods are selected by Stripe based on the currency and other factors. As far as I know PayPal is only allowed for customers in Europe.
Tx. PayPal are the most expensive. They have a % rate + a random (large) fixed amount depending on the country or currency of the subscriber. But lots of people (in Europe mostly) don’t have / like using credit cards so it’s better than losing all of them. It took a long time to sort out a PayPal business account or I would have done this long ago.
My credit card is expiring, so I needed to add the new one to Stripe. Though, after it was done, the old credit card number was still listed on intervals.icu.
So I cancelled my subscription, to renew it. But now, I don’t have that “SUPPORT INTERVALS.ICU” button/link. I only have the following message (tr. from French): “Thank you for supporting Intervals.icu! Expires Mon Oct 09, 2023.”
Do I need to wait after the Oct. 09 for that button to show again ?
I once did a manual Paypal payment in the past, after I complained on the forum about many European people not using creditcards, but could not subscribe since I have no creditcard. And have been using this great site ever since for free. Even while I wanted to support.
The iDeal option was a great addition as well. That is the primary payment method here in the Netherlands and is preferred to Paypal. And probably comes with way less fees as well. So I subscribed using iDeal.
Many people like me probably used your amazing site for free, or only did one payment, even while we were willing to support.
10 euros per 3 months for this amazing site? Totally worth it and you deserve it for all your hard work and frequent updates.
Perhaps a very bold question, but something I personally would find interesting.
Could you let us know in a month or two how much the new payment options increased revenue?
You are very transparent and also mentioned earlier that Intervals.icu was not really part of your income, but more a side project, and the revenue was mostly just needed to cover the costs. The users of your website probably won’t mind at all if the revenue exceeds the costs by a great margin and your time spent gets rewarded as well.
Personally I am really curious what the effect of the other added payment methods is percentage wise.
I understand if you don’t want to share such details, but personally I would find that very interesting. And I hope that I am right and this gives a significant spike in revenue.