Much of our work at Buttondown revolves around resolving amorphous bits of state and cleaning it up to our ends, particularly state from exogenous sources. This manifests itself in a lot of ways: SMTP error codes, importing archives, et cetera. But one particularly pernicious way is straight. An author can come to ButtonDown having already set up a Stripe account, whether for some ad hoc use case or because they were using a separate paid subscriptions platform such as Substack or Ghost that ...
