Payment Provider Survey

[Clinton Blackburn]

We are working on improving the integration of payment providers with the E-Commerce Service (Otto). If your organization uses either Otto or the shopping_cart app in LMS, please take a moment to complete a brief survey so that we can better understand which payment providers we need to be aware of.

https://goo.gl/forms/92QbVoFdWdbIDx8o2

Thanks,

Clinton Blackburn, Tech Lead

edX E-Commerce Engineering

[Clinton Blackburn]

Thank you to all of you who completed the payment provider survey. Based on your responses, we have decided to change our plans for payment integration. We had initially planned to move payment integration to a plugin framework to allow for the development of various payment processor integrations outside of the main edx/ecommerce repository. This would allow any developer to create new integrations, and ensure we the maintainers of the repository did not have to maintain accounts with multiple providers to fully test payment integration.

Your responses have shown that almost everyone has integrated with Stripe and PayPal. Moving to a plugin framework at this point would be premature. Our energy would be better spent supporting a Stripe integration, and improving our PayPal integration. We already have plans to update our PayPal integration to use Braintree v.zero (rather than the PayPal API which has not been as reliable as we'd like).

We welcome any contributions of a Stripe integration. A pull request from our friends at OpenCraft was put on hold many months ago. If you'd like to contribute, please reply saying so; and, we'll provide the support necessary to get the integration merged.

If you have questions or concerns, please share them here. Thank you all for your patience!

Thanks,

Clinton Blackburn, Tech Lead

edX E-Commerce Engineering

[Pierre Mailhot]

But we can still create our own payment provider, right? For "political" and "administrative" reasons, we cannot use PayPal. We had to develop our own code for Paysafe / Netbanx. We do not want to lose that.