Why is Klarna blocked by Ghost in Stripe?

Memberships & subscriptions
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Hi everyone,

I’m new to Ghost (many-many thanks for this fantastic piece of open-source software!) and trying to wrap my head around how subscriptions work. I’m trying to see which payment methods I can enable now that Additional payment methods are in beta, and I’ve come across that “Buy now, pay later” methods, such as Klarna, are blocked by Ghost configuration in Stripe:

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Is there any particular reason for this? Is there a way to enable it (if self-hosted)?

Thanks in advance!

/D

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a buy-now-pay-later option for a subscription in the wild, I’ve only ever seen it available for one-off purchases

Have Stripe support confirmed it’s a possible payment option for subscriptions?

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I am personally using Klarna for a couple of newspaper subscriptions, which is probably why I was surprised to see that it’s blocked. I’ve looked at the Stripe docs now and it says that recurring payments are in private preview though: Klarna payments | Stripe Documentation

So clearly this is why it’s not enabled. Works like a breeze with Klarna on its own for quite a number of years already (probably not in all markets), so I’m surprised it’s not integrated in Stripe yet (at least for some markets).

Thanks for the swift answer, nonetheless @Kevin :slight_smile:

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It might be because some of those don’t support recurring subscriptions. Not sure if Klarna does or not.