[Osmf-talk] Automatic membership renewal
Scott Neville
scott07 at worldsofwar.co.uk
Wed Aug 28 22:04:04 UTC 2013
Hi,
Could we not use the recurring subscription feature of PayPal? From my
perspective thats much simpler, I set it up once and its taken care of
from then on. I would even be happy to pay a little extra to be able to
pay via PayPal (I know their fees can be a bit steep), if I could do the
recurring subscription, in this case I am just paying for my convenience.
Scott
On 28/08/2013 22:32, Ed Freyfogle wrote:
> Agree there should be a Euro (and also other major world currencies)
> account.
>
> Until there is I can highly recommend transferwise - it's peer to peer
> currency transfer at much, much lower rate than banks. Here's an
> invite link http://transferwise.com/u/1901
>
>
>
>
> 2013/8/28 Michael Larkin <larkinml at gmail.com <mailto:larkinml at gmail.com>>
>
> 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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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