We've been using Celery for a few months now to accept pre-orders after our Kickstarter campaign ended and it has been a great experience. I've gotten emails from multiple customers complementing us on how easy it is to pre-order. I highly recommend Celery to anyone who wants to create a post-crowdfunding campaign order page or even a DIY Kickstarter alternative.
Is there a connection between this and the distributed task queue that I am missing, or do they just have the same name?
No connection. Just happen to have the same name.
Maybe they should use the eta kwarg to bill the customers in the future
I seem to recall an article announcing this service incurring some developer ire a while ago due to choosing a name that clearly conflicts with an existing (and reasonably popular) service. Same confusion here, initially.
Calling Celery a distributed task queue is like calling leather seats in a Mercedes a Formula 1 race car driver.
So it very well can be, but it isn't the state of the art? Maybe I should have said "self described distributed task queue."
It's trainer-wheels for people afraid of touching the stuff they're using.
I don't understand the "finally" proclamation. What is preventing someone from using Stripe (ar just about any payment service, for that matter) in the same manner and saving the 2%?
They could, but selling online is more than just collecting payments. There's order management, CRM, analytics, etc, which I think bring a lot of value to a seller.
Most sellers don't have the time or resources to pull all of that off in addition to having to focus on sales & marketing and product development.
Do they store card numbers?
All the sensitive card information is stored with Stripe