Unfortunately the payment options in the Elements Store are (limited to) Credit Card and Amazon Pay (UK) whereas the Elements Application does allow Credit Card and PayPal and GooglePay and ApplePay.
I could not use Amazon Pay here in Germany
Remark but no advertisement: ApplePay might be a good option since Elements users as Apple macOS users per se and most likely have an Apple account.
Would love to order from the Elements store right now… without having a credit card. @dan: please make it possible.
We use Fastspring on the website. They’ve been reliable enough over the years and support a wide range of payment methods, which is great. The downside is their backend and API are dated, and they just don’t offer what we need to power a proper in-app store, especially when it comes to handling third-party product sales.
We did try to use Fastspring for the Elements Store, but without a modern API it simply wasn’t possible. That’s why we had to switch to Stripe.
Stripe works well, but it supports fewer payment options when the checkout lives inside an app. Because our store is in-app, we can’t offer Apple Pay, it has to be used in a browser for that. If Stripe expands their supported in-app payment methods, we’ll jump on it.
I know it’s not ideal, and we’d love to offer more options. Rest assured, we’ll keep pushing on this
