On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi affiliates,
As Cascadia Wikimedians works toward US Federal recognition as a charity,
we'll be interested in having the option to accept online transactions. So,
a couple of questions:
1. Are there any providers of SSL certificate authorities that you've found
particularly easy or difficult to work with?
i'd forget about traditional ones,
and go for
https://letsencrypt.org/ .
2. What methods do your organizations accept for
online transactions,
especially recurring donations and recurring membership dues? The easiest to
implement seems to be Paypal. I'm wondering if there are other easy options
as well, particularly if they have low transaction fees and low currency
conversion fees (since we'll want to accept both Canadian and US currency,
and preferably Bitcoin as well).
in the countries i know direct debit would be the cheapest. but i am
not so sure about this in north america:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_debit#United_States
checking what providers penny businesses use might be an option as
well, e.g. "cheapest telephone abroad" or similar.
best,
rupert