One more to add to your list is XE Trade (which is part of Western Union). I have used them for several years. They provide bank-to-bank transfers without any fees (apart from the usual exchange rate spread of course). I note that SPI uses them for payments too.
http://www.xe.com/xetrade/ S. On 8 Apr 2012, at 14:30, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hello, > > sorry for spamming this list so heavily these days, but I try to work on some > tasks during the Easter vacation. ;-) > > I've been evaluating the payment options a bit, since from time to time, > people drop us a note telling that they would like to donate, but cannot due > to a lack of donation options. > > Currently, we support these payment mechanisms: > > - PayPal (payments via PayPal balance, credit card, and bank account) > - Flattr > - bank transfer to Germany > - bank transfer to the US (upon contacting SPI first) > - sending money or cheques to Germany > - sending money or cheques to the US > - click & pledge (payment via credit card) > > I am currently awaiting an offer from a clearing company, i.e. a company that > can directly charge a credit card without the need for the donor to open up > an account. > > I have been researching a bit what other projects do, and the following are > possibilities TDF does not yet use: > > - Monkeybookers/Skrill (IMHO similar to PayPal) > - debit from bank account > - SMS payment (vanity number) > - payment via phone vanity number > > IMHO, we don't need any of these, but I still wanted to present you the > results. If you think they would be helpful, I can investigate further. > > There has also been the discussion about BitCoin, but so far, there have been > technical issues, IIRC, so we decided to skip that for the moment. > > Independent of the mechanisms, I plan two 1. make our donation page a bit > more shiny, since it looks not so attracting at the moment 2. start another > round of fundraising. > > Florian > > -- > Florian Effenberger, Chairman of the Board > Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 > The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany > Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts > Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to board-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to board-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
