Solutions
Search any Ghost community forum for "PayPal memberships" and you will find the same suggestion: add a PayPal donation button and connect it to Ghost via Zapier. Here is why that advice is well-intentioned but fundamentally broken for membership sites.
Tutorial
Zapier is often the first suggestion when Ghost publishers ask about non-Stripe payment support. Here is an honest look at how the workflow is set up, where it breaks down, and what it actually costs.
Tutorial
n8n is a powerful open-source automation tool. You can use it to connect payment providers to Ghost – but the setup is more involved than most forum posts suggest. Here is what it actually takes.
Deep Dive
What actually happens between the moment a customer clicks "buy" and the moment Ghost grants them access? A plain-English guide to webhooks, retries, signature verification, and why they sometimes fail.
Tutorial
Polar is a creator-first payment platform with built-in EU VAT handling and a clean API. Here is how to connect it to Ghost so every purchase automatically grants membership access.
News
Ghost only supports Stripe natively. But there are thousands of publishers who cannot or do not want to use Stripe. Here is how to add any payment provider without touching your existing setup.