[Qgis-psc] PayPal

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi all,

I successfully created a Stripe account and added our business information
and linked the bank account. Contrary to PayPal they also understand that
Euro accounts do exist in Switzerland. All was easy and straight forward.
They also knew about Swiss business setups (CHE-numbers), IBAN/SWIFT and
peoples IDs (AHV-Nr) they could immediately verify. Looks more professional
than PayPal, so far. PayPal - until just recently didn't even accept IBAN
account numbers for linking bank accounts. IBAN has been introduced in
Europe many years ago.

Now the next step is to integrate the payment button (checkout) into our
website. I hope that Richard or Tim can help me with integrating the
payment button into our website.

We will keep you informed about the updates.

Greetings,
Andreas

On 29 March 2018 at 17:10, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:

> Thanks a lot Andreas. I think it's time to look for a better alternative.
> Any suggestion?
> All the best.
>
> Il 2018-03-29 04:42 Andreas Neumann ha scritto:
>
>> Hi QGIS PSC,
>>
>> This is to let you know that our PayPal account is still blocked.
>>
>> PayPal is the worst company on this planet - I can tell you.
>>
>> They don't respond to e-mails, they send you the same standard e-mails
>> again and again, without reading at all what you respond to them.
>>
>> They tell you to upload documents you already sent them and you are
>> not able to upload them again, because the document upload button says
>> document already uploaded, pending review.
>>
>> I had five phone calls with them until I was able to upload all
>> necessary documents. When you have someone on the phone after many
>> minutes of waiting in the line, you have to tell the same story again
>> and again, because there is a different person each time you call
>> them.
>>
>> After this issue is solved and money withdrawn, I will definitely
>> close the PayPal account for good and move everything to Stripe. I do
>> hope that Stripe has better customer support and less payment and
>> transfer and conversion fees. Over all PayPal earned many thousand
>> Euros from QGIS.ORG [1] - despite their lousy support.
>>
>> The worst thing is that PayPal does not understand that there are
>> organizations besides for profit companies and that things work a bit
>> different for such organizations.
>>
>> Sorry about my rant. This is to let you know that I am working on it,
>> but I am soon loosing my patience ...
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> --
>> Andreas Neumann
>> QGIS.ORG [1] board member (treasurer)
>>
>>
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Andreas Neumann
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