[tor] Alternative payment methods

Noisebridge Treasurer treasurer at noisebridge.net
Wed Aug 31 20:43:01 UTC 2011


No, but nearly all bookkeeping systems support paypal, so we get the
transaction line items that way.

-Kelly

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:27, mark burdett <mfburdett at gmail.com> wrote:

> PayPal also doesn't automatically transfer every transaction to your
> bank account, right? (although you can manually transfer funds over
> whenever you want)
>
> --mark
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Noisebridge Treasurer
> <treasurer at noisebridge.net> wrote:
> > If google checkout can't make 1:1 transfers with metadata for every
> > transaction, we would need to take one of 2 approaches:
> > 1. Our bookkeeping system would have to support google checkout.
> Determining
> > whether this is the case can be a bit complicated. Since we're about to
> > switch to a new bookkeeping system this is maybe not the best time to
> invest
> > time and effort setting this up.
> > 2. Google checkout donations would have to be "anonymous" meaning that
> you
> > cannot get a tax receipt for them and you cannot use the service to pay
> > dues. This would have to be made explicit on the donation page.
> > -Kelly
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 13:09, mark burdett <mfburdett at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> From my experience (low volume small businesses and organizations),
> >> Google Checkout keeps your money for a while (longer than most people
> >> want) and then pays it out in periodic transfers to your bank account.
> >>
> >> ..that said don't count me as an expert around policies and terms of
> >> service, I'm just a developer ;)
> >>
> >> --mark
> >>
> >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Noisebridge Treasurer
> >> <treasurer at noisebridge.net> wrote:
> >> > I wasn't able to figure out enough about google checkout to determine
> >> > whether our bookkeeping system can accommodate it. So I'm not sure yet
> >> > if
> >> > there's any problem with setting up google checkout for us. Andy is
> >> > correct
> >> > that the main thrust of my message is that I am down with setting up
> >> > non-paypal options. I would add though that they should all be
> mutually
> >> > exclusive, i.e. please don't set up google checkout to payout via
> paypal
> >> > or
> >> > something, or set up flattr assuming that we will always have paypal.
> >> > Basically, please figure out how goo checkout gets money to us (bank
> >> > transfer? per transaction or batch?) and check with me before
> >> > implementing
> >> > it.
> >> > -K
> >> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:24, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org>
> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:23:25AM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> >> >> > So now that we agree with each other, let's just do it.  Rubin, can
> >> >> > you
> >> >> > figure out how to get a Google checkout button on a static HTML
> page
> >> >> > that causes donations to go to treasurer at noisebridge.net?  I can
> add
> >> >> > you
> >> >> > to the treasury minions list if you'd like, or I'll just forward
> you
> >> >> > any
> >> >> > mail that comes in regarding a google checkout thing, whichever
> makes
> >> >> > you happier.
> >> >>
> >> >> Oh, and Kelly if there's any problem with the above (if Rubin
> figuring
> >> >> this out will interfere with other wheels that are already in motion)
> >> >> let us know and we will avoid stepping on toes.
> >> >>
> >> >> -andy
> >> >
> >> >
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