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Daniel J. Lewis · 2w
And that preregistration through Stripe Connect means this requires somewhat centralized systems, albeit with liberty to switch. PodcastGuru would have to connect their Stripe to Podgagement, TrueFan...
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The liberty for the podcaster is that they could theoretically switch their payment page anytime. The only "lock in" would maybe be for recurring payments, depending on how that's handled.

If the payment page host (Podgagement, TrueFans, Buzzsprout, etc.) handles the recurring payments to the podcaster's Stripe account, then leaving that host means ending those recurring payments.

But if the host uses Stripe Billing for recurring payments, that doesn't break when the podcaster switches. BUT
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Daniel J. Lewis · 2w
Using Stripe Billing keeps the recurring payments managed by Stripe instead of the payment page host, and I'm not sure whether the app could continue receiving fees from the recurring payments if the podcaster moves their Stripe connection to a different payment-page host. I'll do more thinking abo...