Thanks Clinton! Is stripe an option? They play nice over here in the EU too.
A+ Dave On 29 January 2014 09:54, Clinton Ebadi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > Everyone may have noticed that Google Checkout really did disappear at > the end of November. I've been asleep at the wheel a bit there, and have > yet to implement an alternative. > > So! Here's the part where I actually start working on that. The first > step is to see what everyone thinks we should use. A few ideas: > > - Braintree, because Google recommended them as a Checkout > replacement. I'd never heard of them before. Supposedly we get locked > in forever to the old Google Checkout rate (same as Paypal's rate > that hasn't changed in a decade -- 2.9% + 30 cents) which might be > nice. > > - Dwolla, because I hear they're cool. I tried signing up for a > personal account with them, but their verification process got really > creepy, really fast. It felt almost like I was being socially > engineered as part of an identity theft scam. Perhaps not a huge > deal; I think organizations accepting money can do so without > requiring the payee to sign up for an account. > > - Square. My band uses their phone attachment to take credit card > payments on merch. Their website implies HCoop could use them to > accept digital payments as well. Their fees look pretty competetive > (2.75% with no static base fee, better than Paypal). > > - Coinbase? My only knowledge of them is that Overstock.com partnered > with them and they give merchants local currency. Their fees seem > especially reasonable: 1% + 15 cents. But they're also new, and > Bitcoin may just be a fad. > > From what I can tell I just need a suggestion or three, a quick board > vote, and I should be able to minimally integrate a new payment provider > into the portal. So! Fellow members! Tell me how you want to be able to > pay your dues and I'll make it so. > > Regarding the general state of the coop's finances... our bank account > balance is sufficient for the time being. The treasurer is basically > awol, but since I know Steve in the Real World (tm) I am harassing him > into telling me how much money we have regularly. I've been processing > Paypal payments every week or two (since all things not done otherwise > fall to the President I suppose) and will continue to do so until we > figure out a longer term solution (new treasurer, basically). > > -- > Ruled by the ebb of my oceans > Slaves to the dusk and the dawn > Your petri dish civilisations > Are buried and born > > _______________________________________________ > HCoop-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.hcoop.net/listinfo/hcoop-discuss _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.hcoop.net/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
