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@Testoceratops@disabled.socialWe're about to adopt my fiancé's grandma's cat because she has to go to a retirement home, we'd REALLY need to change the mattress before, and use the vacuum as I can't lean anymore due to my disabilities.
Thanks if you make it possible, one way or another! We just can't and won't abandon her, and we all need a better environment to live here until we can move out.
@Testoceratops You could said up a Wise account, it can also have a public URL you can share
@GreenSkyOverMe I've never heard of it, I'll check it out tomorrow. Thank you so much!!
Still have to set the GFM for Mitzi's travel fees as well. It's such a mess, I don't know what picture I should use for it as it's not optional. Not sure how much it will cost. But we still don't have the date so I think it can wait until I have more energy after sleeping to be set up. Too many things to think about, I'm kinda overwhelmed
@Testoceratops The main purpose of Wise is cheap international transfers, the receive-via-URL is recent
@GreenSkyOverMe Awesome! Really grateful for the info
@Testoceratops Have you tried Stripe? I'm in the process of moving over to it from Paypal, and they take a lot more payments.
@bengesko I haven't, thank you so much for telling me about it! Gonna check it
@Testoceratops @bengesko We use Liberapay and for that they have either Stripe or Paypal as backends, so we're using Stripe (the whole point is to give critters an alternative to paypal), and Stripe /works/ but it sucks.
They're very business-oriented and don't seem to really understand the concept of donations. They blocked our account when I put our own website in the "your website" field, going "this doesn't look like a business". Uh yeah, it's not SUPPOSED to look like a business, people. We're not running a business here. (Got resolved after putting our Liberapay page in the "your website" field instead, but um, YIKES.)
@IceWolf @Testoceratops yeah I hooked mine up to my payhip account, which I use to sell adopts, so it worked for me!
@Testoceratops @bengesko Oh they actually gave us our money once we changed the website link, so it's all good, and we're still using them! They're just not completely trustworthy for this sort of thing is all. Stuff to watch out for.
@Testoceratops @bengesko Probably less scummy than Paypal still, I would say.
@Testoceratops @bengesko (...Not that that's a very high bar at all.)
@Testoceratops @bengesko So, Stripe doesn't allow personal / peer-to-peer transactions, including donations. (See https://support.stripe.com/questions/requirements-for-accepting-tips-or-donations.) They appear to be fine with https://ko-fi.com/ pages, but officially Stripe is for business purposes.
However, if there's an exchange in both directions, they'd have no cause to shut this down. It can be something near-worthless (e.g. a month's access to a single photograph / short poem), and still count: the legal term is "peppercorn".
@Testoceratops @bengesko Apart from that, and their duopolous payment processing fee (1.5% + 0.25€, plus an extra 1% for Brexit), Stripe is really good. They require a phone number, which might be made available to donors (I haven't found out yet), but they let you put whatever name you like on the credit card statement. (I haven't heard any stories of Stripe deadnaming people, even when their banks do, which is quite astonishing for the financial industry.)
And their customer support is great.
@wizzwizz4 @bengesko Thanks for all the info and advices, it's really appreciated. I'll look into it!
@Testoceratops @mutualaid venmo is owned by paypal
@arcturax Thanks a lot for letting me know, because I genuinely had no idea. Well, not bad not having it, in that case!
@Testoceratops I only found out myself recently