Accepting PayPal as a payment method on Storj

As many confirmed, the normal debit card likely will work. All banks in several countries, where I was, allowed to set the spendable limit on the debit card, may be yours can too?
Also some banks have had a subscription plan with monthly or annually fee (actually you was allowed to select between cheap and costly plans, no free plan, but sometimes they have had a condition where it would be free - e.g. have deposit of N amount of local currency), these plans usually gives you a possibility to issue several cards even with different accounts, so you might use one of them for online services and top-up only the exact amount.

Perhaps our payment provider could accept virtual cards too (I didn’t try), then you can top-up the exact amount to pay the invoice.

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This is already exist and does not require a partnership: Instant Cryptocurrency Exchange | Best Rates & Lowest Fees | ChangeNOW
I’m sure, there are other services like this.

P.S. the main disadvantage of all similar services - the huge fee, even this one. We have had Coinpayments provider in the past - they took incredible fee from the customers, so… I do not think there is a good and not greed provider unfortunately…

Another interesting thing is, they don’t charge for egress:

Leave outrageous egress fees behind

Other cloud providers charge high egress fees, so that you have a lock-in effect. With Impossible Cloud you don’t have to pay exorbitant fees to move your data.

So that’s basically 1 TB storage + 0.5 TB of egress per month with Storj.
But the product is the certified data center model and I think Storj customers who use the data center storage option have to pay more than the regular prices.

I believe decentralized storage isn’t worth the hassle and have decided to switch to the legacy centralized storage option, Microsoft 365 Business Basic, at $6.00 per month with NO limit on egress, No Limit on Segment and Up-to 1.2 Gbps Download speed! (As Per my Testing with 6Gbps Network on Oracle Cloud)

Storj for developers/enterprises, not consumers. Of course, consumers may use it too, but will miss most of consumer features like a regular fee independently of the real usage. Since you want to use consumer features - it’s perhaps the ok choice.

Yes :slightly_smiling_face:
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I have postet it before: Upgrading your plan | Impossible Cloud Storage Help
They offer Paypal but they are also just a start-up too: Hamburg’s Impossible Cloud makes it rain in €7 million seed round - Tech.eu

PayPal is not going to happen.
I don’t know why but that was the answer.

Other options suggested in this thread are still being investigated.

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Oh well.
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@jammerdan :point_up: should be selected as solution in case people don’t read the whole thread.

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It would be very nice to pay with low fee stable coins lik Tether

Also with credit card I loose my privacy. With Tether not.

We offer STORJ as anonymous payment method already. Other cryptocurrencies will not be added as payment methods.

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You can:

However the final fee likely will be higher than if you would just pay with STORJ.
After implementing this:

the fee is expected to be low, and perhaps you could pay a transaction fee in STORJ tokens

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Storj can accept payment via upfront invoicing thru reserved capacity storage fyi. Contact me to learn more. Dean@storj.io

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Until today it seems no other payment options have been added. At least the chatbot says so:

Storj

Pay-as-you-go plans can be paid by credit card or STORJ token. Reserved capacity plans are paid by purchase order.

:unamused:

PayPal will not be added, it’s not planned. We want to add a Google Pay, Apple Pay or maybe also Amazon pay.

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Will then be more advantages for the Storj Token ?

It’s in process.
As Alexey said, Google Pay, Apple Pay and Amazon pay are being investigated as potential options.

It was very helpful when the Community made a list of preferred options and the choices are being evaluated to bring everyone practical payment solutions.

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You can deposit STORJ tokens to your account via L1 (Ethereum) or L2 (zkSync Era only), they would be converted on the send date to USD value and added to your balance with 10% bonus. This balance would be used first for charges, see