[HCoop-Discuss] Alternatives to Google Checkout

[Daniil Frumin]

Is Coinbase really a replacement for Google Checkout? Can I just pay
the member fees in dollars without all the Bitcoin stuff?

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Clinton Ebadi
<clinton at unknownlamer.org> wrote:
> Dave Cottlehuber <dch at jsonified.com> writes:
>
>> Thanks Clinton!
>>
>> Is stripe an option? They play nice over here in the EU too.
>
> Ahoy!
>
> I've been digging into this more, and ... Stripe is indeed an
> option. Square, on the other hand, is actually not applicable: I misread
> their terms of service and I guess their non-physical payment stuff is
> for their marketplace only.
>
> I see that reddit uses Stripe and it looks pretty easy to integrate in
> the short term (and provides things like subscriptions once there is
> time to upgrade the portal). So, I'm thinking: Coinbase and Stripe?
>
> I am going to make a post to hcoop-announce to try and net any final
> thoughts from the folks not reading -discuss.
>
>> A+
>> Dave
>>
>> On 29 January 2014 09:54, Clinton Ebadi <clinton at unknownlamer.org> 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).
>>>
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