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Ricardo Rojo
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Thx for the answer. How do you know if the person is in an European country or not? Do you use their ip to get the country?
My app asks for a full billing address, with country, but...
If your app doesn't ask for address, you already have enough information to process VAT. You have the postal code for the card they used to pay (you ARE asking for postal code, aren't you?), and you have their IP address. Those two pieces usually line up (sometimes not, for digital nomads) and are all the evidence you need to meet the statutes. In cases where the postal code and IP do not match, Quaderno gives more weight to the postal code. You can go in and manually override if needed, as well.
I was thinking in making an integration with www.ip2location.com database. With the ip, the card number and the information in the form should be enough. Hopefully at least 2 of the 3 will line up.
I will also take a look at Quaderno.io. This VAT can be a real nightmare with 28 countries with different VAT.
Streaks are a very powerful tool in gamification in both ways, to keep people motivated or to completely loose them if the break it.
You have many different solutions to try fixing this problem:
1.- Have limited in time streaks. For example, you reach 30 days and you get into level 2 maker. The streak is reset to 0. If you reach other 30 days you get to level 3 maker.
At level 5 You get a beautiful badge only owned for those who reached it or you can get other reward like 1 month 25% discount.
This way, mainly you are compiting with your self and if you loose your streak is not that hard.
2.- Other way is having other streaks like weekly streaks. 5 in 7 days you ship, you keep your streak. If you lose the daily streak, you still have your weekly streak.
I don´t think giving the option to pay if you break the streak is the solution. In fact i think this would make the problem bigger substracting value from shipping. 'I can ship or just pay to keep the streak on'. This will demotivate other users who are just shipping. It will be saw as cheating.
I´m working in a gamification api and have been reading about this for a while. I´ll launch a beta in march 15. If you want to try it before the final launch let me know.
Thanks for the answers. I will try hey, and loader.io.
About the testing i need is just load testing. I work with rails and already use unit and integration testing.
It depends on the number of people in this 50/50. Usually a product is not for everybody. If you have a niche big enought you can still make a good profit.
Github developer plan. Nothing complicated just push and pull code when needed.
Created Spanish translations. As Richard, a couple of terms could vary depending on the context but most of them should be fine. :)
I was thinking in making an integration with www.ip2location.com database. With the ip, the card number and the information in the form should be enough. Hopefully at least 2 of the 3 will line up.
I will also take a look at Quaderno.io. This VAT can be a real nightmare with 28 countries with different VAT.