We re-enabled payments to Heroku in India! At the start of August, we resumed accepting credit and debit cards issued by Indian financial institutions. From the engagement on our public roadmap , we know that there are many developers in India eager to get back on the platform. We want to address the work done to re-enable this functionality, and why Heroku stopped accepting payments from India in the first place. We started by enabling 3D Secure (3DS) on our platform. 3D Secure is a protocol that prompts a user to use a dynamic authentication methods such as biometrics or token-based authentication to confirm their purchases. 3D Secure is the additional factor of authentication that establishes e-mandates now required by the Reserve Bank of India. An e-mandate is a form of authorization provided by cardholders to issuing banks that grants permission for collecting recurring payments.…