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ffs!
this shit does not sound good at #BandCamp

The whole SongTradr thing is not sitting well with me, but BC is the only place I release and I have no real contingency. Self hosting sounds like a nightmare, but perhaps that's where we are headed?...

James Britt

@yoniden The sticking point, I think, is how do self-hosters best collect payment? Plausibly maybe you tell people to use paypal and when you get paid email the zip file. But it's clunky and doesn't scale well.

@jamesbritt @yoniden here's a post from @jessica that shows one solution. I personally don't want to use AWS, but ymmv, as they say.

voidconspiracy.com/creating-a-

I used paypal w/an automated protected d/l system back in the day, haven't really looked into modern equivalents.

www.voidconspiracy.comCreating a Self-Hosted Music Storefront using AWS S3 and SendOwl – Jessica B. Kelly & The Void Conspiracy

@fstateaudio @jamesbritt @yoniden

If you can handle not having direct access to the upload repository, you can bypass the S3 part and just upload directly into SendOwl for what it's worth.

@jessica @fstateaudio @yoniden

I have my own colo server already, it's payment processing I'm curious about.

@jamesbritt @fstateaudio @yoniden

To be clear, SendOwl handles the download, order retention, AND payment processing side of things. You can choose from Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, so on and so forth.

I have no stake in SendOwl, but have been very impressed with how easy they make this particular solution.

@fstateaudio @yoniden @jessica

Ah . Never heard of SendOwl. Nice. Thank you!

@jamesbritt @fstateaudio @yoniden

Thanks for the shoutout, FSA and also I updated the post to reflect that S3 and AWS are optional to this process.

@fstateaudio @yoniden @jessica

Downside to SendOwl: You're paying each month even if you're not selling.