[Osmf-talk] Awareness on Membership software (CiviCRM) issues under Membership WG and Board review

[Philip Barnes]

I can understand that an international money transfer is expensive but surely a personal debit or credit card is no more expensive to osmf than PayPal?

A small comment on <https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/alternative-payment-options/>, shouldn't it say debit or credit card?

Phil (trigpoint)

On 9 August 2024 17:55:25 BST, Paul Norman via osmf-talk <osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>On 2024-08-08 8:04 a.m., John Whelan wrote:
>> If we could get away from Paypal I'd be more than happy.
>> 
>> When paying European invoices I just put the reference number on the payment that goes directly to their bank.  That way I don't pay an inflated exchange rate to paypal.
>
>For membership payments the OSMF prefers credit card or PayPal, or direct debit where applicable <https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/alternative-payment-options/>. The costs of the time to manually process a SEPA transfer are greater than what PayPal takes.
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