Stripe is a great product, but it's not available for all payment methods or countries. You may need to make or receive payments using a platform other than Stripe.
If you're interested in purchasing a subscription to a Buttondown newsletter, you must use Stripe. Buttondown does not support alternate payment gateways.
Alternatively, you can contact the author directly to negotiate. Many authors use other creator platforms like Ko-Fi, Memberful, or Patreon, and may be able to take payment through one of those platforms.
If you're an author of a Buttondown newsletter, you may want to pay for your Buttondown plan with a different platform than Stripe. You may also want to provide more options for payment to your subscribers. Here's how:
If you're interested in purchasing a Buttondown plan for your newsletter, you can also pay using PayPal. If you want to use Paypal, please contact us and we'll get it set up for you!
Note: We can only use PayPal to process annual subscriptions.
If you're an author who'd like to provide additional payment options for your subscribers, we'd recommend trying creator platform tools like Memberful or Patreon.
You can use those platforms to create a payment link and manage your subscriber base. Then you can use Buttondown only to send emails to your readers.
There are integrations that make it easy to sync your paid subscribers into Buttondown: