Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis on Nostr: Hey, #Buttondown creators and paid subscribers! I am entertaining moving from Patreon ...
Hey, #Buttondown creators and paid subscribers! I am entertaining moving from Patreon to Buttondown, and sent Buttondown a question but never got an answer back.
Who actually bills paid subscribers? Does Buttondown have their own Stripe acct or similar to bill all the paid subscribers themselves then pass the revenues on to the creators? Or do they just have an integration with Stripe where the creator has to have their own Stripe account?
Put another way: who owns the merchant account that bills paid subscribers? Whose name shows up on paid subscribers' credit card bills? Does Buttondown touch the money? Does Buttondown issue 1099-Ks to creators?
(And consequently, who has to satisfy Stripe's requirements, you or Buttondown? Do you have to trust Buttondown to handle your revenues? Is Buttondown in a position to bundle charges across creators? This is a HUGELY consequential issue.)
Who actually bills paid subscribers? Does Buttondown have their own Stripe acct or similar to bill all the paid subscribers themselves then pass the revenues on to the creators? Or do they just have an integration with Stripe where the creator has to have their own Stripe account?
Put another way: who owns the merchant account that bills paid subscribers? Whose name shows up on paid subscribers' credit card bills? Does Buttondown touch the money? Does Buttondown issue 1099-Ks to creators?
(And consequently, who has to satisfy Stripe's requirements, you or Buttondown? Do you have to trust Buttondown to handle your revenues? Is Buttondown in a position to bundle charges across creators? This is a HUGELY consequential issue.)