PayPal is especially awful for non-profits. Sometimes they flag donations as fraudulent, causing the organization to lose momentum on campaigns, as happened to Diaspora:
http://www.alphr.com/news/370624/diaspora-accuses-paypal-of-blocking-donations Diaspora's story had a somewhat happy ending, with Stripe saving the day -- many others weren't as lucky. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111019/11202916417/paypal-freezes-diasporas-account.shtml I vaguely remember some PayPal alternative from Europe that was quite promising. But, by now, I am sure that there are others. Any ideas? On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Zak Whittington <zakwh...@stanford.edu> wrote: > A friend of mine is working for an anti-genocide org in southeast asia, > and they want to start doing some online fundraising. Their first thought > was to do a PayPal button, but they'd rather not pay PayPal a cut of all > their donations. > > Anyone know if there are any free tools out there for small social justice > orgs to fundraise online without transaction fees or buying a costly > software package? > > Thanks! > -Zak > > > -- > Zak Whittington > Political Science BA, Stanford '15 > Computer Security MS, Stanford '17 > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu. >
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