[Osmf-talk] Automatic membership renewal

[Scott Neville]

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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