<div dir="ltr">That sounds good, we still have open issues around setting up a donate button for the website.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 at 06:13, Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Forwarding a nice report from the QGIS PSC on donation/payment options.<br>
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Dear PSC,<br>
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Now that Stripe is in service already for a couple of weeks I would like <br>
to let you know about the difference between PayPal and Stripe.<br>
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First - again a big thanks to all who helped integrating Stripe (or <br>
recommending it in the first place) - thanks Richard, Tim, Jürgen and <br>
Strk (who also recommended using Stripe). Also, thanks for implementing <br>
the receipts by e-mail and integration with our donors list, Richard!<br>
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With respect to payment fees, Stripe is way better. They keep on average <br>
<= 3.5 % of the payments, all the way until it ends up in our bank <br>
account. With PayPal, this can be up to 10% of payment fees. Also, for <br>
some reasons, PayPal users sometimes prefer to change currency from Euro <br>
to their own currency, which would be yet another unnecessary currency <br>
conversion with fees involved.<br>
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I still have to get used to the Stripe portal, but altogether I am <br>
pretty happy with Stripe. It is also easy to manually create an invoice <br>
for sponsorships, should a sponsor from outside Europe prefer to pay <br>
with credit card.<br>
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The only slight drawback with the current stripe integration is that we <br>
don't have a free form to enter any amount, the user wants - or maybe <br>
better - any amount larger than 10 €. While this is, at one hand, a good <br>
thing (minimum amount is at 10 € and people are more unlikely to use <br>
such an amount for illegal testing of stolen credit cards), some people <br>
might want to donate a larger (or in between amount).<br>
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The other very minor usability issue I can see with the Stripe payment <br>
form inside <br>
<a href="https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/donations.html#qgis-donations" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/donations.html#qgis-donations</a> <br>
is that there is a frame (with rounded corners) around "Name", "E-Mail" <br>
and the amount combobox,but no frame around the credit card fields (Card <br>
number, expiry date and CVC). I think it would be nicer if those three <br>
credit card widgets would also have the same frame like the other fields.<br>
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What do people think about removing PayPal from our donations options <br>
(not closing the account, but just remove it from the options)? Would <br>
people miss it, or would we miss out on donations? We can also postpone <br>
this decision for a couple months, but more incentive for people to use <br>
Stripe instead of PayPal would be nice.<br>
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We already have this text: "You can use Paypal to donate using your own <br>
credit card (but we prefer to use Stripe for that). The payment is <br>
processed by PayPal but you don't need to have a PayPal account or <br>
sign-up for one if you are paying by credit card.", but still quite a <br>
few donors use PayPal, probably because it is more well-known than <br>
Stripe or more convenient for them to use.<br>
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Thoughts about Stripe/PayPal?<br>
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Thanks and greetings,<br>
Andreas<br>
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Andreas Neumann<br>
<a href="http://QGIS.ORG" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">QGIS.ORG</a> <<a href="http://QGIS.ORG" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://QGIS.ORG</a>> board member (treasurer)<br>
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