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by genema 2620 days ago
I won't claim my reasoning is the what's keeping people asking for PayPal, but here is why I prefer to pay via PayPal:

My biggest fear of paying via Stripe is not having the ability to cancel payments on my own or to cut random company access to my credit card without having to talk to my CC company or bank.

PayPal gives me a bit more piece of mind because I know I can log in and find subscriptions and cancel them right from the back end and payments will be stopped. With Stripe, I can't do this. Not to mention Stripe dashboard is a UX nightmare from the consumer perspective. I don't think any consumer would log in to Stripe to manage their payments (assuming they could) as things stand right now. I think this is a missing feature that Stripe has to integrate in order to finally let PayPal die. That and time.

As a consumer, I want to be able to go to Stripe, easily log in, see all of my subscriptions / payments and be able to stop them with a click of a button. As long as this is missing, I would rather use PayPal's shitty UI and hidden subscription management area.