retire stripe

[chadwhitacre]

Once all data is moved over to Balanced, we can retire Stripe.

• remove stripe_customer_id from participants table
• take stripe_customer_id out of authentication.py
• unset STRIPE_*_API_KEY from heroku config

Let's keep the account itself around for a while for historical data?

[joonas]

How's the progress going on this migration?

I assume this is dependent on #174 and #238? I would love to do some pruning :)

[chadwhitacre]

One of the stragglers in #238 is not failing, which means that every few weeks we pull $10 in from Stripe. This is annoying and inconvenient and kind of funny. I'd rather leave these tickets open until a) we get around to migrating that user, or b) his credit card expires, than the alternative, c) shut off stripe and lose that $10 every few weeks.

[joonas]

Oh sure, I'm not saying we should shut anyone down necessarily, just thought I'd see what's the status of this since it's been open a while. It's kind of funny, that it's still happening.

I guess there's no harm in keeping this open until something changes.

[olivierlacan]

@whit537 Unrelated to this issue, but what has been your experience with Stripe in general?

[chadwhitacre]

@olivierlacan We used Stripe as our main processor for about three weeks, over a year ago. They asked us to leave because we were violating their terms of service by running a marketplace, though since then they've made progress supporting the marketplace features Gittip needs. In general I've got a high view of their product.

[patcon]

+1

[chadwhitacre]

@aljosa Turns out that you're the participant in question here. Due to a mixup when migrating from Stripe to Balanced two years ago, we still have your credit card info vaulted with Stripe instead of at Balanced. You're the only one! Would you be willing to re-enter your credit card info for Gittip? That would enable us to finally retire our Stripe integration.

[aljosa]

@whit537 it should be ok now.
i've tried to click "Disconnect My Credit Card" before entering data again but that didn't do anything.
Then I've added my card info and it was saved w/o errors.
Let me know if there is anything else I should do.

[chadwhitacre]

Thanks @aljosa, you rock! I've confirmed that you're switched over to Balanced now. This ticket is cleared for take-off. Labeling "Ready to Start."