[Osmf-talk] Automatic membership renewal

[Michael Larkin]

 On subscription matter , why don't we have a Euro bank account so that
those of us who pay in Euro can avoid the conversion costs that banks (and
Pay Pal ) apply to Sterling?Euro conversions. These just increase bank
profits and one transaction by the Treasurer should suffice to transfer the
funds
Michael Larkin


On 28 August 2013 20:17, Hugo Holscher <hugoholscher at gmail.com> wrote:

> Personnally I am not in favor of direct debit. Not sure how it is for most
> of you, but the time consuming thing is to go to the website figure out the
> numbers, cut and paste them. That all could go in the e-mail with renewal
> request. ALso a unique number (like an invoice number) would render the
> additional e-mail unnessary.
>
> Hugo
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- From: Harry Wood
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 4:28 PM
> To: Andy Allan ; osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Osmf-talk] Automatic membership renewal
>
>  Andy wrote:
>>
>> As an example, I'm once again faced with a non-trivial amount of
>>
>
>  clicking links and reading websites in order to renew my OSMF
>> membership. The email reminder is sitting there unactioned for 24 days
>> already. With the way we've set things up, you get kicked out of the
>> OSMF every year by default.
>>
>> In contrast, I'm a member of two organisations (London Cycling
>> Campaign and the British Mountaineering Council) were my membership
>> gets renewed automatically and the first I notice is when my fresh
>> membership card drops through the letterbox. I bet their retention
>> rate is higher than ours!
>>
>> I don't see any need to focus on lots of new ways to generate income
>> when our current sources are so half-heartedly organised.
>>
>>
> OK. Automatic member renewal.
> This seems like a concrete suggestion with no downside apart from the
> question of how to set it up.
>
> At the moment I pay my membership fee following the "UK bank transfer"
> instructions.
> I guess in the first instance we could just change those instructions to
> say "Please set up an annual direct debit"? For payments from foreign
> banks, I'm not sure though. And the membership secretary (Henk) would need
> to adjust procedures a little. No need to send a reminder, but would need
> to check that the direct debit has gone through each time. In the long run
> it would probably reduce the amount of nagging emails and other processing
> needed.
>
> Harry
>
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