aseigo
Payment gateway libraries
I’ve been looking at the options in the Elixirverse for payment gateways (Stripe, PayPal, et al) and I’ve already found the following:
- https://github.com/swelham/cashier (by @swelham)
- https://github.com/joshnuss/commerce_billing
- https://github.com/era/pay
All had commits in November (so ~2 months ago), have zero releases, and between 35-80 commits with a handful of committers … so all are similarly active, it seems.
All implement support for only one payment gateway, however … PayPal or Stripe, depending on the one. This leaves me scratching my head, and so I figured I’d lazyweb this and see if any of you have experience with the above libraries.
If so … what was your experience like? (Usage, quality, issues, upstreaming fixes / improvements …)
On a more philosopical level, I do wish there was one good, (more) complete solution rather than three unfinished options … but I’m used to both open source and new-tech ecosystems, so I’m not surprised … my kingdom for a better world, and all that 
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alexgaribay
I’ve used https://github.com/sorentwo/braintree-elixir for BrainTree and https://github.com/code-corps/stripity_stripe for Stripe. Both have worked without issue for me.
swelham
I had this same frustration at the end of last year which is why I started the cashier repo with the aim to continue adding gateways. Sadly as always I ran out of time leading up to Christmas and haven’t yet had chance to pick it up again this year.
I still aim to maintain this project moving forwards and complete the first release including the PayPal gateway initially. If anyone is interested in contributing either with testing or developing please do me know and I will assist in anyway I can.
andre1sk
https://github.com/joshnuss/commerce_billing is modeled after active merchant and actually supports 2 gateways so looks like a leader as of now 
one of the gateways is bogus though
aseigo
Nice to hear that you want to continue developing cashier. Looking at the code, I do have some questions/concerns regarding the supervisor tree design and use of sync calls. I’m still looking through the various options, but if I were to offer some feedback where you prefer that to happen? (email, github, here on the forum …?)
aseigo
Cool; you may hear from me over the weekend Having a relatively complete, reliable and easy to use solution would be rather nice to have …
I’m also interested in being able to do payments from a Phoenix.Channel and possible also from a mostly-GraphQL application, so I need to look into what sort of requirements that will bring (beyond the obvious things like async calls being preferable …)
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