WishTender

WishTender let’s you receive gifts from fans safely and easily. WishTender founder, @DashBarkHuss, demos how to use the app here:

As many of you know, we will be shutting down with a heavy heart after several rocky months of trying to get WishTender fully back up and running. WHAT HAPPENED It has been an immense struggle with ups, and mostly downs, since we were kicked off of Stripe. Few services compared to Stripe's technical abilities. We stayed in beta to try to solve issues such as backup processors shutting down, functional payment issues, compliance issues, and limiting bad actors. In the last few days before closing, WishTender was targeted by card testers. Many of the card testers attacked without trying to profit financially, which is highly unusual. Most card testers want to make money. This tells us the attacker’s motive was to harm WishTender irreparably. Unfortunately, the attacks happened while we were more susceptible, and our resources and efforts to combat them were not good enough. Our new payment orchestration fraud tools struggled to detect stolen cards. We kept adding new measures, but the testers found a way around. We finally thought we had it figured out, but it was too late. First, it caused issues with Visa. We felt we could work through the Visa issues, but we were informed it created an existential issue for all payments. As hard as we tried, we could not solve this with the resources we had at our disposal. We feel our resources are too thin to keep going. We have never had investors. It’s only been us and our team trying to make things work. A WORD FROM DASH I hope to speak more openly soon about everything that transpired over our journey. We need some time to handle what is going on. I am beyond saddened that WishTender is done, but I truly enjoyed building a product that helped the adult creator community for the short time it did. We launched three years ago as the first cash wishlist, and your input helped us improve this concept over time. I know so many of you by name and found great joy in joining the community. I sincerely hope to keep in touch with the users who helped us build. I will miss the glory days of Friday Findom memes, making fun of refund subs, Steve the Spider, and the hilarious comments you posted on all our tweets. I will miss the bizarre copycats that popped up and accidentally left the name “WishTender” in their copy and how you all made fun of them. I will miss your impressive ability to get gifts from people who hardly knew you just by sending them a picture of your middle finger. Many of you helped us build WishTender into what it became. I’m hopeful that the changes we made in the industry will continue to inspire other companies to put creators first. But I also learned why this is rare. It’s a huge challenge. Ultimately, we missed the mark, too. This is a harsh industry. From financial discrimination to bad actors and lack of tools and funding, I completely understand why it is so rare to build as openly and fairly as we strived to do. It became more challenging for us over time. WHAT’S NEXT For those in our beta program, if you have yet to initiate your last payout, please ensure your payouts are finalized as soon as possible and keep reading our updates in your payment dashboard. Please get in touch with our support chat on our site if you need help. For users who did not participate in our beta program, you do not need to take any action. Again, we hope to share more about everything that happened, but we are currently prioritizing finalizing beta tester payouts. Thank you for being a part of WishTender’s community and our journey. 💛💙

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We have finally reached $100k on the @WishTender leaderboard!✨✨✨ So proud of all the amazing Divas & the good subs who got us to this amazing milestone!🥂🥂🥂

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oh hey @WishTender this ebony brat is on top☠️🩷

We've sent out an update on our progress with our new payment system. You can find it below. Thank you for your patience as we continue to work to open up fully. 💙💛 #h_1e5c2b8fb2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">intercom.help/wishtender/en/…

@JessyStars69 🔥🔥🔥 Congrats, Jessy! 🔥🔥🔥

Please find an update on our recent progress in the link below. Thank you for your patience as we continue working to get WishTender fully open. 💙💛 #h_1e5c2b8fb2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">intercom.help/wishtender/en/…

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We apologize to those who may feel like we haven't provided enough information about our progress while we are beta testing the new system. We're doing our best to get wishtender back up and running for all users as quickly as possible. Please find an update on some of our recent progress in the link below. 💙💛 intercom.help/wishtender/en/…

👋 Say hello to our featured wishers for February & March! ✨@DesireDior111 🌟@GoddessSelyyy ✨@FeistyBBeauty 🌟@Mrs_Plum_Pyro ✨@onlydesirelex Thank you for beta-testing WishTender and helping improve the new system. 💛💙

11:11🪄 Make a wish Canada 🇨🇦 Thank you to our Canadian and international beta testers for helping improve our new payment system! 🌎 Thanks, #wishtenderfam, for your patience as we open up to more users.

The British are coming! 🇬🇧 We love seeing UK wishers back on WishTender. Beta testing is ongoing & we'll let everyone know when we're ready to onboard more users. Thanks for being patient as our beta testers help us prepare the new payment system for the #wishtenderfam 💙💛

💸Payments through our new system are starting up all around the world! 🌍 Thank you to our thorough beta testers for helping us perfect our system! Stay tuned as we open up payments to more beta testers and all users. We appreciate everyone's patience in the meantime. 💛💙

Gift payments to accounts still using Stripe Connect will automatically stop processing on February 15th at 9am PST. US Accounts: Payouts of your Stripe balance to US accounts will continue normally. Please make sure your balance is zeroed out by March 15th. Non US Accounts: This is a reminder that non-US balances must be zeroed out by February 20th at 9am PST. Update: We are continuing to build our new payment system. We sent through our first payments last night and are working through some remaining issues. Those who have volunteered to beta-test the new payment system will have access to it in the next few days. We will send an email and in-app notification when we are ready to onboard users to the new payment system. We appreciate everyone's patience as we navigate through this. 💙💛

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@spoilninaxo Yes, they will, until the 15th.

@WishTender Will US accounts still be able to receive gifts from non-US senders in the meantime?

For non-US accounts, your wishlist will be temporarily deactivated at 11:59pm EST. Once the new payment system is ready, we'll send you onboarding directions via a site notifications and email. We plan to start onboarding users by Feb 15th, barring unforeseen circumstances. intercom.help/wishtender/en/…

@sweetsoleprinc1 US accounts can continue to receive gifts until the 15th.

@WishTender Should US accounts stop taking payments via wishtender? Or are we safe to continue using wishtender as a payment method for the time-being?