The SEPA direct debit payment system is a uniform payment system used by the European Union and a few other countries like the United Kingdom, Iceland, Norway and more. It allows recurring payments to be made without credit cards.
You can create a Flare subscription using SEPA starting today, totally omitting credit cards. You only need a valid IBAN number, and you're good to go!

Adding this payment method was quickly achieved using the pre-built Stripe Billing Portal we migrated to a few weeks ago.
Since we were already receiving webhooks from Stripe within Flare, the only thing required to enable SEPA was flipping over this switch:

For our existing customers who want to change their payment method to SEPA, at the moment, Stripe doesn't support customers changing their payment method from credit card to SEPA. Don't hesitate to contact us via support, and we'll help you switch.
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