open-payment-host

Open Payment Host

Sell Subscriptions, Newsletters, Digital Files without paying commissions.

What

Open Payment Host is an easy to run self-hosted, minimalist payments host through which we can easily sell our digital items without paying double commissions while having total control over our sales and data.

Why

Selling digital items on web as an indie requires using platforms where we have to pay double commissions(to the platform and the payment gateway) and our content is forever locked within those platforms.

How

Open Payment Host is a minimalist yet highly performant Go web application with innovative features which helps indies self-host and sell digital items with little effort.

Video Demo

Clicking the above image would open the video in YouTube.

Demo

https://abishek.openpaymenthost.com

Features

• Customers can buy without logging in, Increases conversion.
• Stripe support, Just add the price id for the product and rest is done automatically.
• Square support, Just add the amount for the product and rest is done automatically.^New
• Multi-country pricing, Price changes automatically according to the user's location resulting in better conversion.
• Mailchimp support, Customers are automatically added to a mailchimp list; Useful for sending newsletters.
• WYSIWYG editor with AI autocomplete to create beautiful product pages.^New
• File attachment support(images) for the product posts. ^New
• S3 support for delivering digital files via automatic pre-signed URL. ^New
• Subscriber count for the products (With Square).^New
• Automatic SSL and other security features for production.

and many more.

Screenshots

Home

WYSIWYG editor with autocomplete powered by Google PaLM AI

Buy without login

Square

No credit card data is stored locally

Stripe

Square

Strong customer authentication (3D-Secure, SCA) support

File delivery after payment

Stripe

Square

Usage

Requirements

1. Stripe or Square account for payment gateway
2. Google PaLM AI API key for autocomplete in editor.
3. Cloudflare account for turnstile captcha.
4. Mailchimp account for adding subscribers to the list.

Note: Open Payment Host can be tested without fulfilling above requirements, But payments and adding subscribers to the list wouldn't work.

Docker

The latest image is available on DockerHub at abishekmuthian/open-payment-host:latest.

Demo Setup

mkdir oph-demo && cd oph-demo
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abishekmuthian/open-payment-host/main/samples/oph-demo/install-demo.sh)"

Visit http://localhost:3000.

Demo version prints more detailed level of errors if any, DO NOT use this demo setup in production.

Login

The default admin email id is admin@openpaymenthost.com and the password is OpenPaymentHost. You'll be asked to reset the password after login for security reasons. That password is hashed and stored.

You'll be logged out after changing password automatically to login with the new credentials.

Admin email id and default admin password can be changed in the config file (explained below) after the first run. Each time the password is reset in the config file, The password needs to be changed again once logged in for security.

Production Setup

It's recommended to try the demo application first before using the production application. The production application requires a registered domain and special config variables for SSL as detailed in the configuration section.

mkdir oph-production && cd oph-production
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abishekmuthian/open-payment-host/main/samples/oph-production/install-production.sh)"

After the container has started successfully, Stop the container, Set the required production configuration and re-run the container.

Configuration

Config file fragmenta.json is located in the secrets folder. It is generated automatically during the first run, After editing the config file the application needs to be restarted for the new configuration to take effect.

fragmenta.json contains configuration for both development and production. The production configuration is loaded when the environment variable FRAG_ENV=production is set.

Note: Environment variable for production is set automatically when using the docker production setup.

User configurable values are included in the table below.

Stripe Webhook Setup

Webhook needs to be setup at Stripe Developer's section for receiving subscription details post payment.

Set the webhook to root_url/payment/webhook where the root_url is defined in the configuration above. To test the webhooks in the local environment, Use a tunnel like ngrok.

Set the following events to send:

1. checkout.session.completed
2. payment_method.attached
3. invoice.paid
4. invoice.payment_failed
5. customer.subscription.deleted

Square Webhook Setup

Webhook needs to be setup at Square Developer's section for receiving subscription details post payment.

Set the webhook to root_url/payment/square_webhook where the root_url is defined in the configuration above. To test the webhooks in the local environment, Use a tunnel like ngrok.

Set the following events to send:

1. subscription.created
2. subscription.updated

Developer

Build Open Payment Host

To build the application yourself,

$ git clone https://github.com/abishekmuthian/open-payment-host
$ cd open-payment-host
$ go build open-payment-host

There are docker-compose , Dockerfile files in the root of the project to build a docker image.

Tailwind

Open Payment Host uses Tailwind and Daisy UI for its UI.

Compile Tailwind using the following command,

npx tailwindcss -i tailwind/tailwind.css src/app/assets/styles/app.css --watch

License

Copyright (C) 2023 Abishek Muthian (Open Payment Host)

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Licenses for open-source libraries used in this project

Fragmenta: https://github.com/fragmenta licensed under The MIT License.

tailwindcss: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss licensed under The MIT License.

daisyui: https://github.com/saadeghi/daisyui licensed under The MIT License.

trix: https://github.com/basecamp/trix licensed under The MIT License.