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RE: Message for @asbear - Bring back the old version of SteemPay.co!
Sorry to see you're disappointed with the recent change on the app, I'm sure I will feel the exact same disappointment. So let's see what are the possibilities that causes such change? Before Steempay come in to answer or before he/she able to come up with reasons/excuses:
- It was genuinely created for the benefit of all. I would guess now, the official government departments started looking into money flow without NAMES. Who is going to pay for the tax? This comes to accountability. Steempay are forced to make such change so government can have a hand in finding WHO created the INVOICE and WHO paid for that INVOICE. In this case, they have no choice.
- This was originally a commercial project, but the original code wasn't capable of including "commission" on each transfer. And now it has been linked to the exchange, who is going to pay for the commission from your 2000krw transfered? The money goes straight to the merchant, there's very little edge Steempay has to hold ransom(for demanding the commission to be paid back). Unless Steempay now start forcing both parties to register an account with real verification, then whichever party execute any transaction, they will have to decide either 1 side or both need to pay an amount of ransom(commission) in order to make the transaction smooth.
- Steempay would like to remain this service for free, but decided to start selling their client base to new merchant. Collecting data from existing client will be an easy way out.
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They simply want all these to be happened at 1 place. To fulfill the government requirement, to earn commission, to sell data at the same time. Now let's see which 1 Steempay would answer or if they're brilliant enough to give another explanation or nice enough to give us back the previous version.
Nothing is realted to the government. The project is stepping forward through the long term roadmap. I am really pleased that SteemPay is seriously used by some people, and there are people who are promoting SteemPay.
You can still use "Instant Sell" feature in the menu which serves you the exactly same way like before. I was considering removing it, but I will keep it longer for you guys. Thanks!
And this is an open sourced project, anyone can launch it on their expense. I don't want to sacrifice my time any expense more for the work not relevant to the long term roadmap, because I am already too busy and running out of fund. Online commerce API and SMT will step in to get SteemPay to the main stage.
Also, there were many local shop owners who wanted me to build the login based system with the advanced store and item management. They explicitly and nicely asked me to do that work so I delivered the feature for them. And they continuously give me really valuable feedback and advice. Never blamed me for the inconvenience they had. Clear winner.
With all due respect, winner don't claim their own win. Without that last phrase, I did gave you my 100% respect already. Now, the respect has been discounted a little🤣. Also I notice you have answered to @kaliju on this matter where clients would love to have exclusive "login" verification, I believe they're going 1 step ahead, things that I haven't even think of, a blockchained PLU system I believe? So, a logon is required because all the product storewide will be securely coded with their pricing. Unlike buying 1 sandwich, 1 invoice is easy. If a customer came and wanted to buy 10 cans of beer, 30 rolls of toilet paper, and 5 live chicken, by the time only the shop owner start creating invoice, that will be taking too long, and the transaction memo will be too brief to record all the necessarily detail. Wiht a proper store log on, I think they don't need a POS system anymore? Phone camera will be able to direct scan barcode, get pricing from store detail, and finalized with a subtotal for all purchases. Buyer can choose to steemconnect pay or direct who knows in future if a registered buyer can have their own payment card like a T-card only difference is this 1 load crypto! Who knows one day I will be using my SteemCard to ride Humetro 😎
Thanks again @asbear for taking time to answer me, them, all of us. From your reply, not a bad idea to charge extra commission for those unregistered transaction. At least you're offering them choice. I will pinch @kaliju's butt and get him patiently waiting for an even better version of Steempay. Cheers
Thanks. As long as the seller logs in they can use the same feature. This is unavoidable unfortunately because the invoice creation API without an authentication can be very risky. You cannot limit API call by user, by session or anything. Then anyone can attack my API and
fill up the DB with fake data which will cause many problems.
The user interface will evolve with the this kind of feedback. I think simply adding a price input area in the sell page will do the same.
Many thanks for your kind words and explanations!