Sell things on HCB
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Since Mar 31, 2026.
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It's been long requested, and we have bad support for this right now. We're currently in the feature scoping/product planning phase. We need to determine what the feature looks like.
we know we want to sell stuff, but how do we handle:
- taxes (do we even need to collect tax?)
- sending receipts that are compliant
- if random person emails hcb a month later and says “i never got my receipt”, how do we re-issue that?
- purchases that contain a donation
- what does the receipt look like?
- “pay what you want, but least $x”
- sending of digital goods
- you automatically get access to X after purchase
- supporting tap to pay purchases
- does this mean we need a UI on mobile for the seller to select products?
- do we want to support printing physical receipts
- what if i want to check my account and see all my purchases/orders?
- how do we handle refunds/returns? they’ll become a lot more common when we’re exchanging goods/services, rather than just a donation
We'll start by planning from the user’s perspective (UX), and we don’t worry about the code just yet. then we double check it’s compliant and has a good UX. only after do we plan what models we want, etc.
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