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Issue Summary
Explain roughly what’s wrong:
Currently only Cards are available as payment method in Ghost.
This seems to be limited in Ghost/ghost/stripe/lib/StripeAPI.js on line Line 461 and Line 555:
payment_method_types: [‘card’]
What did you expect to happen?
As written by the Ghost staff, all payment methods provided by Stripe should work in Ghost.
Steps to Reproduce
Have a Ghost install connected to Stripe with a paid plan.
In your Stripe account go to enable other payment and select at platform ‘Ghost’
Message:
Ghost is managing payment methods for you
Ghost has not enabled you to manage payment methods from the dashboard.
The following steps show that the API will work correct with other payment methods.
Select platform ‘No Platform’ and enable methods like iDeal, SEPA, Paypal, etc. (+follow verification steps if needed)
In Stripe go to product catalog and select one of your product (aka subscriptions)
At pricing select one of them and create a payment link.
Now use the payment link and subscribe.
you will be added through the API to the Ghost memberships.
A last additions, it could be that the simplified API from Stripe is the way to fix this:
Setup information
Ghost Version latest
Node.js Version latest
How did you install Ghost? Though Caprover
Provide details of your host & operating system not relevant.
Thanks for the well-written report — You’re right, we’ve said this works and it currently doesn’t. There have been a few different PRs to fix it, but they’ve all gotten stuck at various points.
Great report Frank, thanks. Hope this issue can be solved asap, John. Glad you are picking it up. iDeal is by far the most-used payment method in the Netherlands, see iDEAL payments for businesses | Stripe. Okay, NL does not have the size of China or the US, it is the 20th largest market for eCommerce with a predicted revenue of US$25,153.3 million by 2024, placing it ahead of Argentina.
Update — we dug into this today and spent some time testing a change to enable support for additional payment methods. It all seems to work without issue.
However, we want some real world testing before we roll this out for everyone, so we’re going to start by shipping this as a beta which can be enabled from Ghost → Settings → Labs
This will be released tomorrow in Ghost 5.82.0, and rolled out to Ghost(Pro) next week.
We looked into this and it appears that the iDEAL “recurring payments” switch (in the screenshot above) cannot be enabled in Stripe unless your premium tiers are set to currency: EUR.
Once they are, this seems to be working ok in our testing.
Thanks for the effort and update @John. Haven’t been able to test a lot last weeks.
Yes, for iDeal and probably Bancontact you need to set Tiers to Euro. That’s done.
Still somehow in the Ghost configuration of Stripe, you can flip the switch for recurring, while it is possible in the default configuration.
Using a custom page or payment link from Stripe with the Ghost Tiers do result in a page with iDeal/Bancontact.
Hi, in another thread@hdrs did a suggestion and I noticed in this file that the STRIPE API Version is set to 2020-08-27, while the latest is 2024-04-10, could this make something incompatible?
Quick update - I’m still working on this and following up regularly. Stripe have confirmed that there is a bug on there side, and confirmed that they’re “working on it” - but that’s as far as I’ve gotten so far.
I will keep sharing news as soon as we have any - sorry it’s so slow :(
Apparently the fix has been rolled out, so now you should be able to enable “Recurring payments” under the iDEAL settings for the “Ghost” payment method policy.
Just checked and it seems to be fixed! Awesome. Will be doing some more tests in a few hours.
The same error consists with Bancontact, popular in Belgium, where recurring payments cannot be selected as well. Maybe Stripe can do the same fix there?
