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Workaround for Paying OpenAI via bunq

, Jochen

tldr: The chatGPT app on iOS allows you to pay openAI using Apple Pay


Last week openAI stopped working for me and I got an error about a billing issue. I use a credit card from bunq to pay openAI, which worked fine for almost a year. When I investigated the issue, I got several misleading error messages from bunq like "your monthly limit is not sufficient" or "you have already added the merchant to your allowed merchants list". I couldn't fix the problem. So I contacted bunq support and they couldn't help either.

Today I thought about using another credit card, but then I found a workaround:

The chatGPT app on iOS allows you to pay openAI using Apple Pay. I couldn't do it with Chrome, and for Safari the Stripe interface lets you choose Apple Pay, but that didn't work either. But the app finally worked 🎉.