Alternatives to Paypal
Hi all,
Has anyone used an alternative to Paypal that lets you accept donations through your website and send money?
Thanks!
Patreon? I've not used it, but I hear it referred to quite often.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Zachariah Wahid < offsite@thehubofdetroit.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Has anyone used an alternative to Paypal that lets you accept donations through your website and send money?
Thanks!
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Patreon is for recurring payments, so if you think you have people willing to do that then definitely go for that.
Stripe and Square are probably the two largest Paypal alternatives.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Steven Bradley stevencbradley@gmail.com wrote:
Patreon? I've not used it, but I hear it referred to quite often.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Zachariah Wahid < offsite@thehubofdetroit.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Has anyone used an alternative to Paypal that lets you accept donations through your website and send money?
Thanks!
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circlepay https://www.circle.com/invite/VSW0JS works very well.
If you want to try something using cryptocurrencies, then there are many other options. Coinbase, uphold, metamask (with chrome browser). Dash, Stellar https://www.stellar.org/ (maybe someday).
It's getting closer to where we won't need paypal or fiat any more but right now getting from fiat to crypto can still be a challenge. I like ether the best and used to use circlepay to buy bitcoin to get ether. Now I use gemini or coinbase, but getting signed up with various exchanges can be a real hassle and slow process. https://shapeshift.io/#/coins can also be a way to exchange digital assets.
Bitcoin is not environmentally friendly. Neither is ether at the moment, but at least it has a transition plan. Many wonder whether it will successfuly transition.
Here's one way circle manages some of the reporting issues fiat gateways face (with limits):
https://support.circle.com/hc/en-us/articles/213560403--Why-are-there-limits...
Circle was very fast when I used it. With coinbase bank transfers pretty much always take the full five business days.
Good luck!
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:28 AM, David Oliver nowhere3@gmail.com wrote:
Patreon is for recurring payments, so if you think you have people willing to do that then definitely go for that.
Stripe and Square are probably the two largest Paypal alternatives.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Steven Bradley stevencbradley@gmail.com wrote:
Patreon? I've not used it, but I hear it referred to quite often.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Zachariah Wahid < offsite@thehubofdetroit.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Has anyone used an alternative to Paypal that lets you accept donations through your website and send money?
Thanks!
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Colin,
Does Circlepay have desktop apps? Or just smartphone? We're trying to set up PoS and everything seems to be smartphone-only.
We want a desktop app that works with card readers and isn't a browser app. Ideally it would be open source. I know these criteria together mean probably nothing is out there - but worth checking I figure.
Thanks,
Nicholas Co-director, Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles Ithaca, NY
On 2017-02-20 20:14, Colin Leath wrote:
circlepay https://www.circle.com/invite/VSW0JS works very well.
If you want to try something using cryptocurrencies, then there are many other options. Coinbase, uphold, metamask (with chrome browser). Dash, Stellar https://www.stellar.org/ (maybe someday).
It's getting closer to where we won't need paypal or fiat any more but right now getting from fiat to crypto can still be a challenge. I like ether the best and used to use circlepay to buy bitcoin to get ether. Now I use gemini or coinbase, but getting signed up with various exchanges can be a real hassle and slow process. https://shapeshift.io/#/coins can also be a way to exchange digital assets.
Bitcoin is not environmentally friendly. Neither is ether at the moment, but at least it has a transition plan. Many wonder whether it will successfuly transition.
Here's one way circle manages some of the reporting issues fiat gateways face (with limits):
https://support.circle.com/hc/en-us/articles/213560403--Why-are-there-limits...
Circle was very fast when I used it. With coinbase bank transfers pretty much always take the full five business days.
Good luck!
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:28 AM, David Oliver nowhere3@gmail.com wrote:
Patreon is for recurring payments, so if you think you have people willing to do that then definitely go for that.
Stripe and Square are probably the two largest Paypal alternatives.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Steven Bradley stevencbradley@gmail.com wrote:
Patreon? I've not used it, but I hear it referred to quite often.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Zachariah Wahid < offsite@thehubofdetroit.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Has anyone used an alternative to Paypal that lets you accept donations through your website and send money?
Thanks!
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Nicholas, Not that I know of. I assume you've checked out the things that come up when you search for open source payment gateway and so on?
https://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+credit+card+payment+gateway&
Pay junction is another option no one mentioned yet here. They are a Santa Barbara company, occasionally hiring here. But I think you might need more volume for them to be worth your while. And I don't see anything about open source.
https://www.payjunction.com/trinity/payments#/pricing
I don't know what our local co-op uses . I thought it was: https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/
But at least for memberships it's:
http://nationbuilder.com/nonprofit
You could ask, they're doing very well, and have expanded to multiple locations:
On Mar 10, 2017 8:48 PM, cyclista@inventati.org wrote:
Colin,
Does Circlepay have desktop apps? Or just smartphone? We're trying to set up PoS and everything seems to be smartphone-only.
We want a desktop app that works with card readers and isn't a browser app. Ideally it would be open source. I know these criteria together mean probably nothing is out there - but worth checking I figure.
Thanks,
Nicholas Co-director, Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles Ithaca, NY
On 2017-02-20 20:14, Colin Leath wrote:
circlepay https://www.circle.com/invite/VSW0JS works very well.
If you want to try something using cryptocurrencies, then there are many other options. Coinbase, uphold, metamask (with chrome browser). Dash, Stellar https://www.stellar.org/ (maybe someday).
It's getting closer to where we won't need paypal or fiat any more but right now getting from fiat to crypto can still be a challenge. I like ether the best and used to use circlepay to buy bitcoin to get ether. Now I use gemini or coinbase, but getting signed up with various exchanges can be a real hassle and slow process. https://shapeshift.io/#/coins can also be a way to exchange digital assets.
Bitcoin is not environmentally friendly. Neither is ether at the moment, but at least it has a transition plan. Many wonder whether it will successfuly transition.
Here's one way circle manages some of the reporting issues fiat gateways face (with limits):
https://support.circle.com/hc/en-us/articles/213560403--Why- are-there-limits-
Circle was very fast when I used it. With coinbase bank transfers pretty much always take the full five business days.
Good luck!
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:28 AM, David Oliver nowhere3@gmail.com wrote:
Patreon is for recurring payments, so if you think you have people willing
to do that then definitely go for that.
Stripe and Square are probably the two largest Paypal alternatives.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Steven Bradley <stevencbradley@gmail.com
wrote:
Patreon? I've not used it, but I hear it referred to quite often.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Zachariah Wahid < offsite@thehubofdetroit.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Has anyone used an alternative to Paypal that lets you accept donations through your website and send money?
Thanks!
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Stripe is nice because it's a lot more modern than PayPal (which still hasn't figured out how to make its dashboard make sense or how to keep its instructions/documentation up-to-date). That can make managing recurring donations, etc., easier.
It's easier to integrate into your website as just a credit card form, which means users don't get sent to another website (which web browsers sometimes break), and it also works more directly: e.g. people who don't have PayPal accounts don't automatically give up (yes, I know that you don't need a PayPal account to pay by credit card via PayPal, but that doesn't mean that your contributors know). Probably not a big issue for most of us, but some cards (e.g. corporate cards) don't work with PayPal, which can be an issue too.
Stripe has the same fees as PayPal in general.
On the other hand, a lot of people love PayPal, and prefer to go through PayPal with PayPal's protection rather than giving their credit card number directly.
Our experience is that, where we are in Canada (I don't know if PayPal usage is different in the US), the people using our Stripe system have far fewer problems with completing the payment than those using PayPal, so it's our preferred system.
We offer Stripe and PayPal (or at least, when that part of our website is working, we do), so people can pick.
We also use PayPal Micropayments, which have lower fees for payments under $12. We use that for accepting e.g. monthly $5 donations.
Christopher Chan *Executive Director* Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society edmontonbikes.ca
*BikeWorks North *• 9305 111 Ave • T5G 0A2 • 780-433-2453 *BikeWorks South *• 8001 102 St • T6E 4A2 • 780-433-2453 *Cell •* 780-756-7560 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada @edmontonbicycle https://twitter.com/edmontonbicycle facebook.com/EdmontonBicycleCommuters https://www.facebook.com/EdmontonBicycleCommuters
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Colin Leath colinleath@gmail.com wrote:
Nicholas, Not that I know of. I assume you've checked out the things that come up when you search for open source payment gateway and so on?
https://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+credit+card+payment+gateway&
Pay junction is another option no one mentioned yet here. They are a Santa Barbara company, occasionally hiring here. But I think you might need more volume for them to be worth your while. And I don't see anything about open source.
https://www.payjunction.com/trinity/payments#/pricing
I don't know what our local co-op uses . I thought it was: https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/
But at least for memberships it's:
http://nationbuilder.com/nonprofit
You could ask, they're doing very well, and have expanded to multiple locations:
On Mar 10, 2017 8:48 PM, cyclista@inventati.org wrote:
Colin,
Does Circlepay have desktop apps? Or just smartphone? We're trying to set up PoS and everything seems to be smartphone-only.
We want a desktop app that works with card readers and isn't a browser app. Ideally it would be open source. I know these criteria together mean probably nothing is out there - but worth checking I figure.
Thanks,
Nicholas Co-director, Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles Ithaca, NY
On 2017-02-20 20:14, Colin Leath wrote:
circlepay https://www.circle.com/invite/VSW0JS works very well.
If you want to try something using cryptocurrencies, then there are many other options. Coinbase, uphold, metamask (with chrome browser). Dash, Stellar https://www.stellar.org/ (maybe someday).
It's getting closer to where we won't need paypal or fiat any more but right now getting from fiat to crypto can still be a challenge. I like ether the best and used to use circlepay to buy bitcoin to get ether. Now I use gemini or coinbase, but getting signed up with various exchanges can be a real hassle and slow process. https://shapeshift.io/#/coins can also be a way to exchange digital assets.
Bitcoin is not environmentally friendly. Neither is ether at the moment, but at least it has a transition plan. Many wonder whether it will successfuly transition.
Here's one way circle manages some of the reporting issues fiat gateways face (with limits):
https://support.circle.com/hc/en-us/articles/213560403--Why- are-there-limits-
Circle was very fast when I used it. With coinbase bank transfers pretty much always take the full five business days.
Good luck!
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:28 AM, David Oliver nowhere3@gmail.com wrote:
Patreon is for recurring payments, so if you think you have people willing
to do that then definitely go for that.
Stripe and Square are probably the two largest Paypal alternatives.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Steven Bradley < stevencbradley@gmail.com> wrote:
Patreon? I've not used it, but I hear it referred to quite often.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Zachariah Wahid < offsite@thehubofdetroit.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Has anyone used an alternative to Paypal that lets you accept donations through your website and send money?
Thanks!
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Here’s a blogpost on open source POS systems: http://blog.capterra.com/the-top-6-free-and-open-source-pos-solutions/
As for being able to accept recurring donations online, donorbox https://donorbox.org/ is free if you do under 1k in donations a month. It runs on Stripe, too, which charges 2.2% for non-profits after you apply (and they also waive the fees for the first $15K).
*J. Michael Eugenio* Communications Associate experimentalstation.org 773 241-6044 @expstation: facebook https://www.facebook.com/expstation/ / twitter http://twitter.com/expstation / instagram https://www.instagram.com/expstation/
On March 13, 2017 at 4:31:58 PM, Christopher Chan ( chris.chan@edmontonbikes.ca) wrote:
Stripe is nice because it's a lot more modern than PayPal (which still hasn't figured out how to make its dashboard make sense or how to keep its instructions/documentation up-to-date). That can make managing recurring donations, etc., easier.
It's easier to integrate into your website as just a credit card form, which means users don't get sent to another website (which web browsers sometimes break), and it also works more directly: e.g. people who don't have PayPal accounts don't automatically give up (yes, I know that you don't need a PayPal account to pay by credit card via PayPal, but that doesn't mean that your contributors know). Probably not a big issue for most of us, but some cards (e.g. corporate cards) don't work with PayPal, which can be an issue too.
Stripe has the same fees as PayPal in general.
On the other hand, a lot of people love PayPal, and prefer to go through PayPal with PayPal's protection rather than giving their credit card number directly.
Our experience is that, where we are in Canada (I don't know if PayPal usage is different in the US), the people using our Stripe system have far fewer problems with completing the payment than those using PayPal, so it's our preferred system.
We offer Stripe and PayPal (or at least, when that part of our website is working, we do), so people can pick.
We also use PayPal Micropayments, which have lower fees for payments under $12. We use that for accepting e.g. monthly $5 donations.
Christopher Chan *Executive Director* Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society edmontonbikes.ca
*BikeWorks North *• 9305 111 Ave • T5G 0A2 • 780-433-2453 *BikeWorks South *• 8001 102 St • T6E 4A2 • 780-433-2453 *Cell •* 780-756-7560 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada @edmontonbicycle https://twitter.com/edmontonbicycle facebook.com/EdmontonBicycleCommuters https://www.facebook.com/EdmontonBicycleCommuters
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Colin Leath colinleath@gmail.com wrote:
Nicholas, Not that I know of. I assume you've checked out the things that come up when you search for open source payment gateway and so on?
https://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+credit+card+payment+gateway&
Pay junction is another option no one mentioned yet here. They are a Santa Barbara company, occasionally hiring here. But I think you might need more volume for them to be worth your while. And I don't see anything about open source.
https://www.payjunction.com/trinity/payments#/pricing
I don't know what our local co-op uses . I thought it was: https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/
But at least for memberships it's:
http://nationbuilder.com/nonprofit
You could ask, they're doing very well, and have expanded to multiple locations:
On Mar 10, 2017 8:48 PM, cyclista@inventati.org wrote:
Colin,
Does Circlepay have desktop apps? Or just smartphone? We're trying to set up PoS and everything seems to be smartphone-only.
We want a desktop app that works with card readers and isn't a browser app. Ideally it would be open source. I know these criteria together mean probably nothing is out there - but worth checking I figure.
Thanks,
Nicholas Co-director, Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles Ithaca, NY
On 2017-02-20 20:14, Colin Leath wrote:
circlepay https://www.circle.com/invite/VSW0JS works very well.
If you want to try something using cryptocurrencies, then there are many other options. Coinbase, uphold, metamask (with chrome browser). Dash, Stellar https://www.stellar.org/ (maybe someday).
It's getting closer to where we won't need paypal or fiat any more but right now getting from fiat to crypto can still be a challenge. I like ether the best and used to use circlepay to buy bitcoin to get ether. Now I use gemini or coinbase, but getting signed up with various exchanges can be a real hassle and slow process. https://shapeshift.io/#/coins can also be a way to exchange digital assets.
Bitcoin is not environmentally friendly. Neither is ether at the moment, but at least it has a transition plan. Many wonder whether it will successfuly transition.
Here's one way circle manages some of the reporting issues fiat gateways face (with limits):
https://support.circle.com/hc/en-us/articles/213560403--Why- are-there-limits-
Circle was very fast when I used it. With coinbase bank transfers pretty much always take the full five business days.
Good luck!
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:28 AM, David Oliver nowhere3@gmail.com wrote:
Patreon is for recurring payments, so if you think you have people willing
to do that then definitely go for that.
Stripe and Square are probably the two largest Paypal alternatives.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Steven Bradley < stevencbradley@gmail.com> wrote:
Patreon? I've not used it, but I hear it referred to quite often.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Zachariah Wahid < offsite@thehubofdetroit.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Has anyone used an alternative to Paypal that lets you accept donations through your website and send money?
Thanks!
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iATS http://home.iatspayments.com/ is a service with similar fee structure to PayPal, it integrates well with Civi and Salesforce, and is supported by readers on mobile devices, as well as on dedicated mag swipe hardware.
We were going to switch over, but then we migrated away from Civi, and iATS wasn't compatible with our new CRM.
Cheers,
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 5:27 PM, J Michael Eugenio < michael@experimentalstation.org> wrote:
Here’s a blogpost on open source POS systems: http://blog.capterra.com/the-top-6-free-and-open-source-pos-solutions/
As for being able to accept recurring donations online, donorbox https://donorbox.org/ is free if you do under 1k in donations a month. It runs on Stripe, too, which charges 2.2% for non-profits after you apply (and they also waive the fees for the first $15K).
*J. Michael Eugenio* Communications Associate experimentalstation.org 773 241-6044 <(773)%20241-6044> @expstation: facebook https://www.facebook.com/expstation/ / twitter http://twitter.com/expstation / instagram https://www.instagram.com/expstation/
On March 13, 2017 at 4:31:58 PM, Christopher Chan ( chris.chan@edmontonbikes.ca) wrote:
Stripe is nice because it's a lot more modern than PayPal (which still hasn't figured out how to make its dashboard make sense or how to keep its instructions/documentation up-to-date). That can make managing recurring donations, etc., easier.
It's easier to integrate into your website as just a credit card form, which means users don't get sent to another website (which web browsers sometimes break), and it also works more directly: e.g. people who don't have PayPal accounts don't automatically give up (yes, I know that you don't need a PayPal account to pay by credit card via PayPal, but that doesn't mean that your contributors know). Probably not a big issue for most of us, but some cards (e.g. corporate cards) don't work with PayPal, which can be an issue too.
Stripe has the same fees as PayPal in general.
On the other hand, a lot of people love PayPal, and prefer to go through PayPal with PayPal's protection rather than giving their credit card number directly.
Our experience is that, where we are in Canada (I don't know if PayPal usage is different in the US), the people using our Stripe system have far fewer problems with completing the payment than those using PayPal, so it's our preferred system.
We offer Stripe and PayPal (or at least, when that part of our website is working, we do), so people can pick.
We also use PayPal Micropayments, which have lower fees for payments under $12. We use that for accepting e.g. monthly $5 donations.
Christopher Chan *Executive Director* Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society edmontonbikes.ca
*BikeWorks North *• 9305 111 Ave • T5G 0A2 • 780-433-2453 <(780)%20433-2453> *BikeWorks South *• 8001 102 St • T6E 4A2 • 780-433-2453 <(780)%20433-2453> *Cell •* 780-756-7560 <(780)%20756-7560> Edmonton, Alberta, Canada @edmontonbicycle https://twitter.com/edmontonbicycle facebook.com/EdmontonBicycleCommuters https://www.facebook.com/EdmontonBicycleCommuters
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Colin Leath colinleath@gmail.com wrote:
Nicholas, Not that I know of. I assume you've checked out the things that come up when you search for open source payment gateway and so on?
https://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+credit+card+payment+gateway&
Pay junction is another option no one mentioned yet here. They are a Santa Barbara company, occasionally hiring here. But I think you might need more volume for them to be worth your while. And I don't see anything about open source.
https://www.payjunction.com/trinity/payments#/pricing
I don't know what our local co-op uses . I thought it was: https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/
But at least for memberships it's:
http://nationbuilder.com/nonprofit
You could ask, they're doing very well, and have expanded to multiple locations:
On Mar 10, 2017 8:48 PM, cyclista@inventati.org wrote:
Colin,
Does Circlepay have desktop apps? Or just smartphone? We're trying to set up PoS and everything seems to be smartphone-only.
We want a desktop app that works with card readers and isn't a browser app. Ideally it would be open source. I know these criteria together mean probably nothing is out there - but worth checking I figure.
Thanks,
Nicholas Co-director, Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles Ithaca, NY
On 2017-02-20 20:14, Colin Leath wrote:
circlepay https://www.circle.com/invite/VSW0JS works very well.
If you want to try something using cryptocurrencies, then there are many other options. Coinbase, uphold, metamask (with chrome browser). Dash, Stellar https://www.stellar.org/ (maybe someday).
It's getting closer to where we won't need paypal or fiat any more but right now getting from fiat to crypto can still be a challenge. I like ether the best and used to use circlepay to buy bitcoin to get ether. Now I use gemini or coinbase, but getting signed up with various exchanges can be a real hassle and slow process. https://shapeshift.io/#/coins can also be a way to exchange digital assets.
Bitcoin is not environmentally friendly. Neither is ether at the moment, but at least it has a transition plan. Many wonder whether it will successfuly transition.
Here's one way circle manages some of the reporting issues fiat gateways face (with limits):
https://support.circle.com/hc/en-us/articles/213560403--Why- are-there-limits-
Circle was very fast when I used it. With coinbase bank transfers pretty much always take the full five business days.
Good luck!
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:28 AM, David Oliver nowhere3@gmail.com wrote:
Patreon is for recurring payments, so if you think you have people
willing to do that then definitely go for that.
Stripe and Square are probably the two largest Paypal alternatives.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Steven Bradley < stevencbradley@gmail.com> wrote:
Patreon? I've not used it, but I hear it referred to quite often.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Zachariah Wahid < offsite@thehubofdetroit.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Has anyone used an alternative to Paypal that lets you accept donations through your website and send money?
Thanks!
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Stripe is good for website integration - but if you're looking to move away from paypal for political reasons, stripe has many of the same backers. https://www.fastcompany.com/1813087/inside-stripe-paypal-competitor-backed-p...
Thanks all for presenting some of the options out there.
Best,
- Colin
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Christopher Chan < chris.chan@edmontonbikes.ca> wrote:
Stripe is nice because it's a lot more modern than PayPal (which still hasn't figured out how to make its dashboard make sense or how to keep its instructions/documentation up-to-date). That can make managing recurring donations, etc., easier.
It's easier to integrate into your website as just a credit card form, which means users don't get sent to another website (which web browsers sometimes break), and it also works more directly: e.g. people who don't have PayPal accounts don't automatically give up (yes, I know that you don't need a PayPal account to pay by credit card via PayPal, but that doesn't mean that your contributors know). Probably not a big issue for most of us, but some cards (e.g. corporate cards) don't work with PayPal, which can be an issue too.
Stripe has the same fees as PayPal in general.
On the other hand, a lot of people love PayPal, and prefer to go through PayPal with PayPal's protection rather than giving their credit card number directly.
Our experience is that, where we are in Canada (I don't know if PayPal usage is different in the US), the people using our Stripe system have far fewer problems with completing the payment than those using PayPal, so it's our preferred system.
We offer Stripe and PayPal (or at least, when that part of our website is working, we do), so people can pick.
We also use PayPal Micropayments, which have lower fees for payments under $12. We use that for accepting e.g. monthly $5 donations.
Christopher Chan *Executive Director* Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society edmontonbikes.ca
*BikeWorks North *• 9305 111 Ave • T5G 0A2 • 780-433-2453 <(780)%20433-2453> *BikeWorks South *• 8001 102 St • T6E 4A2 • 780-433-2453 <(780)%20433-2453> *Cell •* 780-756-7560 <(780)%20756-7560> Edmonton, Alberta, Canada @edmontonbicycle https://twitter.com/edmontonbicycle facebook.com/EdmontonBicycleCommuters https://www.facebook.com/EdmontonBicycleCommuters
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Colin Leath colinleath@gmail.com wrote:
Nicholas, Not that I know of. I assume you've checked out the things that come up when you search for open source payment gateway and so on?
https://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+credit+card+payment+gateway&
Pay junction is another option no one mentioned yet here. They are a Santa Barbara company, occasionally hiring here. But I think you might need more volume for them to be worth your while. And I don't see anything about open source.
https://www.payjunction.com/trinity/payments#/pricing
I don't know what our local co-op uses . I thought it was: https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/
But at least for memberships it's:
http://nationbuilder.com/nonprofit
You could ask, they're doing very well, and have expanded to multiple locations:
On Mar 10, 2017 8:48 PM, cyclista@inventati.org wrote:
Colin,
Does Circlepay have desktop apps? Or just smartphone? We're trying to set up PoS and everything seems to be smartphone-only.
We want a desktop app that works with card readers and isn't a browser app. Ideally it would be open source. I know these criteria together mean probably nothing is out there - but worth checking I figure.
Thanks,
Nicholas Co-director, Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles Ithaca, NY
On 2017-02-20 20:14, Colin Leath wrote:
circlepay https://www.circle.com/invite/VSW0JS works very well.
If you want to try something using cryptocurrencies, then there are many other options. Coinbase, uphold, metamask (with chrome browser). Dash, Stellar https://www.stellar.org/ (maybe someday).
It's getting closer to where we won't need paypal or fiat any more but right now getting from fiat to crypto can still be a challenge. I like ether the best and used to use circlepay to buy bitcoin to get ether. Now I use gemini or coinbase, but getting signed up with various exchanges can be a real hassle and slow process. https://shapeshift.io/#/coins can also be a way to exchange digital assets.
Bitcoin is not environmentally friendly. Neither is ether at the moment, but at least it has a transition plan. Many wonder whether it will successfuly transition.
Here's one way circle manages some of the reporting issues fiat gateways face (with limits):
https://support.circle.com/hc/en-us/articles/213560403--Why- are-there-limits-
Circle was very fast when I used it. With coinbase bank transfers pretty much always take the full five business days.
Good luck!
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:28 AM, David Oliver nowhere3@gmail.com wrote:
Patreon is for recurring payments, so if you think you have people
willing to do that then definitely go for that.
Stripe and Square are probably the two largest Paypal alternatives.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Steven Bradley < stevencbradley@gmail.com> wrote:
Patreon? I've not used it, but I hear it referred to quite often.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Zachariah Wahid < offsite@thehubofdetroit.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Has anyone used an alternative to Paypal that lets you accept donations through your website and send money?
Thanks!
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If there’s a concern about the politics of Stripe and PayPal, then I’d suggest looking at Dharma Merchant Services https://dharmamerchantservices.com/why-dharma/. They have a good review with Marchant Maverick https://www.merchantmaverick.com/reviews/dharma-merchant-services-review/, too.
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On March 14, 2017 at 4:38:51 PM, Colin Dixon (colin.phoenixbikes@gmail.com) wrote:
Stripe is good for website integration - but if you're looking to move away from paypal for political reasons, stripe has many of the same backers. https://www.fastcompany.com/1813087/inside-stripe-paypal-competitor-backed-p...
Thanks all for presenting some of the options out there.
Best,
- Colin
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Christopher Chan < chris.chan@edmontonbikes.ca> wrote:
Stripe is nice because it's a lot more modern than PayPal (which still hasn't figured out how to make its dashboard make sense or how to keep its instructions/documentation up-to-date). That can make managing recurring donations, etc., easier.
It's easier to integrate into your website as just a credit card form, which means users don't get sent to another website (which web browsers sometimes break), and it also works more directly: e.g. people who don't have PayPal accounts don't automatically give up (yes, I know that you don't need a PayPal account to pay by credit card via PayPal, but that doesn't mean that your contributors know). Probably not a big issue for most of us, but some cards (e.g. corporate cards) don't work with PayPal, which can be an issue too.
Stripe has the same fees as PayPal in general.
On the other hand, a lot of people love PayPal, and prefer to go through PayPal with PayPal's protection rather than giving their credit card number directly.
Our experience is that, where we are in Canada (I don't know if PayPal usage is different in the US), the people using our Stripe system have far fewer problems with completing the payment than those using PayPal, so it's our preferred system.
We offer Stripe and PayPal (or at least, when that part of our website is working, we do), so people can pick.
We also use PayPal Micropayments, which have lower fees for payments under $12. We use that for accepting e.g. monthly $5 donations.
Christopher Chan *Executive Director* Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society edmontonbikes.ca
*BikeWorks North *• 9305 111 Ave • T5G 0A2 • 780-433-2453 <(780)%20433-2453> *BikeWorks South *• 8001 102 St • T6E 4A2 • 780-433-2453 <(780)%20433-2453> *Cell •* 780-756-7560 <(780)%20756-7560> Edmonton, Alberta, Canada @edmontonbicycle https://twitter.com/edmontonbicycle facebook.com/EdmontonBicycleCommuters https://www.facebook.com/EdmontonBicycleCommuters
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Colin Leath colinleath@gmail.com wrote:
Nicholas, Not that I know of. I assume you've checked out the things that come up when you search for open source payment gateway and so on?
https://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+credit+card+payment+gateway&
Pay junction is another option no one mentioned yet here. They are a Santa Barbara company, occasionally hiring here. But I think you might need more volume for them to be worth your while. And I don't see anything about open source.
https://www.payjunction.com/trinity/payments#/pricing
I don't know what our local co-op uses . I thought it was: https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/
But at least for memberships it's:
http://nationbuilder.com/nonprofit
You could ask, they're doing very well, and have expanded to multiple locations:
On Mar 10, 2017 8:48 PM, cyclista@inventati.org wrote:
Colin,
Does Circlepay have desktop apps? Or just smartphone? We're trying to set up PoS and everything seems to be smartphone-only.
We want a desktop app that works with card readers and isn't a browser app. Ideally it would be open source. I know these criteria together mean probably nothing is out there - but worth checking I figure.
Thanks,
Nicholas Co-director, Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles Ithaca, NY
On 2017-02-20 20:14, Colin Leath wrote:
circlepay https://www.circle.com/invite/VSW0JS works very well.
If you want to try something using cryptocurrencies, then there are many other options. Coinbase, uphold, metamask (with chrome browser). Dash, Stellar https://www.stellar.org/ (maybe someday).
It's getting closer to where we won't need paypal or fiat any more but right now getting from fiat to crypto can still be a challenge. I like ether the best and used to use circlepay to buy bitcoin to get ether. Now I use gemini or coinbase, but getting signed up with various exchanges can be a real hassle and slow process. https://shapeshift.io/#/coins can also be a way to exchange digital assets.
Bitcoin is not environmentally friendly. Neither is ether at the moment, but at least it has a transition plan. Many wonder whether it will successfuly transition.
Here's one way circle manages some of the reporting issues fiat gateways face (with limits):
https://support.circle.com/hc/en-us/articles/213560403--Why- are-there-limits-
Circle was very fast when I used it. With coinbase bank transfers pretty much always take the full five business days.
Good luck!
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:28 AM, David Oliver nowhere3@gmail.com wrote:
Patreon is for recurring payments, so if you think you have people
willing to do that then definitely go for that.
Stripe and Square are probably the two largest Paypal alternatives.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Steven Bradley < stevencbradley@gmail.com> wrote:
Patreon? I've not used it, but I hear it referred to quite often.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Zachariah Wahid < offsite@thehubofdetroit.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Has anyone used an alternative to Paypal that lets you accept donations through your website and send money?
Thanks!
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If your non-profit does recurring payments, it's worth looking into the Payment Service Providers policy on Credit Card Data Portability.
Paypal doesn't let you migrate live recurring transactions - although this is not an issue for all organisations, its certainly proving to be a challenge with ours.
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 6:15 PM, J Michael Eugenio < michael@experimentalstation.org> wrote:
If there’s a concern about the politics of Stripe and PayPal, then I’d suggest looking at Dharma Merchant Services https://dharmamerchantservices.com/why-dharma/. They have a good review with Marchant Maverick https://www.merchantmaverick.com/reviews/dharma-merchant-services-review/, too.
*J. Michael Eugenio* Communications Associate experimentalstation.org 773 241-6044 <(773)%20241-6044> @expstation: facebook https://www.facebook.com/expstation/ / twitter http://twitter.com/expstation / instagram https://www.instagram.com/expstation/
On March 14, 2017 at 4:38:51 PM, Colin Dixon (colin.phoenixbikes@gmail.com) wrote:
Stripe is good for website integration - but if you're looking to move away from paypal for political reasons, stripe has many of the same backers. https://www.fastcompany.com/1813087/inside-stripe-paypal- competitor-backed-paypal-founders-peter-thiel-elon-musk
Thanks all for presenting some of the options out there.
Best,
- Colin
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Christopher Chan < chris.chan@edmontonbikes.ca> wrote:
Stripe is nice because it's a lot more modern than PayPal (which still hasn't figured out how to make its dashboard make sense or how to keep its instructions/documentation up-to-date). That can make managing recurring donations, etc., easier.
It's easier to integrate into your website as just a credit card form, which means users don't get sent to another website (which web browsers sometimes break), and it also works more directly: e.g. people who don't have PayPal accounts don't automatically give up (yes, I know that you don't need a PayPal account to pay by credit card via PayPal, but that doesn't mean that your contributors know). Probably not a big issue for most of us, but some cards (e.g. corporate cards) don't work with PayPal, which can be an issue too.
Stripe has the same fees as PayPal in general.
On the other hand, a lot of people love PayPal, and prefer to go through PayPal with PayPal's protection rather than giving their credit card number directly.
Our experience is that, where we are in Canada (I don't know if PayPal usage is different in the US), the people using our Stripe system have far fewer problems with completing the payment than those using PayPal, so it's our preferred system.
We offer Stripe and PayPal (or at least, when that part of our website is working, we do), so people can pick.
We also use PayPal Micropayments, which have lower fees for payments under $12. We use that for accepting e.g. monthly $5 donations.
Christopher Chan *Executive Director* Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society edmontonbikes.ca
*BikeWorks North *• 9305 111 Ave • T5G 0A2 • 780-433-2453 <(780)%20433-2453> *BikeWorks South *• 8001 102 St • T6E 4A2 • 780-433-2453 <(780)%20433-2453> *Cell •* 780-756-7560 <(780)%20756-7560> Edmonton, Alberta, Canada @edmontonbicycle https://twitter.com/edmontonbicycle facebook.com/EdmontonBicycleCommuters https://www.facebook.com/EdmontonBicycleCommuters
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Colin Leath colinleath@gmail.com wrote:
Nicholas, Not that I know of. I assume you've checked out the things that come up when you search for open source payment gateway and so on?
https://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+credit+card+payment+gateway&
Pay junction is another option no one mentioned yet here. They are a Santa Barbara company, occasionally hiring here. But I think you might need more volume for them to be worth your while. And I don't see anything about open source.
https://www.payjunction.com/trinity/payments#/pricing
I don't know what our local co-op uses . I thought it was: https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/
But at least for memberships it's:
http://nationbuilder.com/nonprofit
You could ask, they're doing very well, and have expanded to multiple locations:
On Mar 10, 2017 8:48 PM, cyclista@inventati.org wrote:
Colin,
Does Circlepay have desktop apps? Or just smartphone? We're trying to set up PoS and everything seems to be smartphone-only.
We want a desktop app that works with card readers and isn't a browser app. Ideally it would be open source. I know these criteria together mean probably nothing is out there - but worth checking I figure.
Thanks,
Nicholas Co-director, Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles Ithaca, NY
On 2017-02-20 20:14, Colin Leath wrote:
circlepay https://www.circle.com/invite/VSW0JS works very well.
If you want to try something using cryptocurrencies, then there are many other options. Coinbase, uphold, metamask (with chrome browser). Dash, Stellar https://www.stellar.org/ (maybe someday).
It's getting closer to where we won't need paypal or fiat any more but right now getting from fiat to crypto can still be a challenge. I like ether the best and used to use circlepay to buy bitcoin to get ether. Now I use gemini or coinbase, but getting signed up with various exchanges can be a real hassle and slow process. https://shapeshift.io/#/coins can also be a way to exchange digital assets.
Bitcoin is not environmentally friendly. Neither is ether at the moment, but at least it has a transition plan. Many wonder whether it will successfuly transition.
Here's one way circle manages some of the reporting issues fiat gateways face (with limits):
https://support.circle.com/hc/en-us/articles/213560403--Why- are-there-limits-
Circle was very fast when I used it. With coinbase bank transfers pretty much always take the full five business days.
Good luck!
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:28 AM, David Oliver nowhere3@gmail.com wrote:
Patreon is for recurring payments, so if you think you have people
willing to do that then definitely go for that.
Stripe and Square are probably the two largest Paypal alternatives.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Steven Bradley < stevencbradley@gmail.com> wrote:
Patreon? I've not used it, but I hear it referred to quite often.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Zachariah Wahid < offsite@thehubofdetroit.org> wrote:
Hi all, > > Has anyone used an alternative to Paypal that lets you accept > donations > through your website and send money? > > Thanks! > > ____________________________________ > > The ThinkTank mailing List > <a href="http://lists.bikecollectives.org/options.cgi/thethinkt > ank-bikecollectives.org">Unsubscribe from this list</a> > > > >
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what do you all use lately for in shop creditcard processing? We've been using Square which has met our needs, but seems expensive to pay 2.75% per transaction. Also, has anyone ever had Square? if so, have they switched to something else?
I've found some systems which would cost us less annually, but the reviews have been significantly mixed. Thanks for anyone's feedback.
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:48 PM, cyclista@inventati.org wrote:
Colin,
Does Circlepay have desktop apps? Or just smartphone? We're trying to set up PoS and everything seems to be smartphone-only.
We want a desktop app that works with card readers and isn't a browser app. Ideally it would be open source. I know these criteria together mean probably nothing is out there - but worth checking I figure.
Thanks,
Nicholas Co-director, Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles Ithaca, NY
On 2017-02-20 20:14, Colin Leath wrote:
circlepay https://www.circle.com/invite/VSW0JS works very well.
If you want to try something using cryptocurrencies, then there are many other options. Coinbase, uphold, metamask (with chrome browser). Dash, Stellar https://www.stellar.org/ (maybe someday).
It's getting closer to where we won't need paypal or fiat any more but right now getting from fiat to crypto can still be a challenge. I like ether the best and used to use circlepay to buy bitcoin to get ether. Now I use gemini or coinbase, but getting signed up with various exchanges can be a real hassle and slow process. https://shapeshift.io/#/coins can also be a way to exchange digital assets.
Bitcoin is not environmentally friendly. Neither is ether at the moment, but at least it has a transition plan. Many wonder whether it will successfuly transition.
Here's one way circle manages some of the reporting issues fiat gateways face (with limits):
https://support.circle.com/hc/en-us/articles/213560403--Why- are-there-limits-
Circle was very fast when I used it. With coinbase bank transfers pretty much always take the full five business days.
Good luck!
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:28 AM, David Oliver nowhere3@gmail.com wrote:
Patreon is for recurring payments, so if you think you have people willing
to do that then definitely go for that.
Stripe and Square are probably the two largest Paypal alternatives.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Steven Bradley < stevencbradley@gmail.com> wrote:
Patreon? I've not used it, but I hear it referred to quite often.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Zachariah Wahid < offsite@thehubofdetroit.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Has anyone used an alternative to Paypal that lets you accept donations through your website and send money?
Thanks!
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Square is really easy to set up across all devices and integrates with QB, Freshbooks and other finance apps. The square app is user friendly and has a lot of options for shops. 2.75% for every aspect of the transaction process is pretty damn cheap. This what we plan to use at Rosewood for these concerns and more, since we don't have a resident ERP or CRM systems expert with software development experience that can make a free open source, integratable and secure version that works like the more common for profit options.
We tried the PayPal POS card reader thing. It's not at all the same ease of setup as Square. It costs more too. There were issues with QB integration, with cash drawer setup, with printer compatibility, and more.
Tom Martin Rosewood Bikes Program Director 16126 SE Stark Portland OR, 97233 Shop: 503-568-1938 Personal: 510-996-8655
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Bayley Vanderpoel < bayley.vanderpoel@velocitycoop.org> wrote:
what do you all use lately for in shop creditcard processing? We've been using Square which has met our needs, but seems expensive to pay 2.75% per transaction. Also, has anyone ever had Square? if so, have they switched to something else?
I've found some systems which would cost us less annually, but the reviews have been significantly mixed. Thanks for anyone's feedback.
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:48 PM, cyclista@inventati.org wrote:
Colin,
Does Circlepay have desktop apps? Or just smartphone? We're trying to set up PoS and everything seems to be smartphone-only.
We want a desktop app that works with card readers and isn't a browser app. Ideally it would be open source. I know these criteria together mean probably nothing is out there - but worth checking I figure.
Thanks,
Nicholas Co-director, Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles Ithaca, NY
On 2017-02-20 20:14, Colin Leath wrote:
circlepay https://www.circle.com/invite/VSW0JS works very well.
If you want to try something using cryptocurrencies, then there are many other options. Coinbase, uphold, metamask (with chrome browser). Dash, Stellar https://www.stellar.org/ (maybe someday).
It's getting closer to where we won't need paypal or fiat any more but right now getting from fiat to crypto can still be a challenge. I like ether the best and used to use circlepay to buy bitcoin to get ether. Now I use gemini or coinbase, but getting signed up with various exchanges can be a real hassle and slow process. https://shapeshift.io/#/coins can also be a way to exchange digital assets.
Bitcoin is not environmentally friendly. Neither is ether at the moment, but at least it has a transition plan. Many wonder whether it will successfuly transition.
Here's one way circle manages some of the reporting issues fiat gateways face (with limits):
https://support.circle.com/hc/en-us/articles/213560403--Why- are-there-limits-
Circle was very fast when I used it. With coinbase bank transfers pretty much always take the full five business days.
Good luck!
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:28 AM, David Oliver nowhere3@gmail.com wrote:
Patreon is for recurring payments, so if you think you have people
willing to do that then definitely go for that.
Stripe and Square are probably the two largest Paypal alternatives.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Steven Bradley < stevencbradley@gmail.com> wrote:
Patreon? I've not used it, but I hear it referred to quite often.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Zachariah Wahid < offsite@thehubofdetroit.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Has anyone used an alternative to Paypal that lets you accept donations through your website and send money?
Thanks!
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We've been using Square because it was easy to set up and the readers were readily available. Based on a previous post in this thread I've thought about investigating iATS. Right now our number of transactions is pretty low so its not a big deal, but for the future I'd like to have an alternative.
SteveAndruski The Rockville Bike Hub
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:51 PM, Tom Martin tom@rosewoodbikes.org wrote:
Square is really easy to set up across all devices and integrates with QB, Freshbooks and other finance apps. The square app is user friendly and has a lot of options for shops. 2.75% for every aspect of the transaction process is pretty damn cheap. This what we plan to use at Rosewood for these concerns and more, since we don't have a resident ERP or CRM systems expert with software development experience that can make a free open source, integratable and secure version that works like the more common for profit options.
We tried the PayPal POS card reader thing. It's not at all the same ease of setup as Square. It costs more too. There were issues with QB integration, with cash drawer setup, with printer compatibility, and more.
Tom Martin Rosewood Bikes Program Director 16126 SE Stark Portland OR, 97233 Shop: 503-568-1938 <(503)%20568-1938> Personal: 510-996-8655 <(510)%20996-8655>
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Bayley Vanderpoel <bayley.vanderpoel@ velocitycoop.org> wrote:
what do you all use lately for in shop creditcard processing? We've been using Square which has met our needs, but seems expensive to pay 2.75% per transaction. Also, has anyone ever had Square? if so, have they switched to something else?
I've found some systems which would cost us less annually, but the reviews have been significantly mixed. Thanks for anyone's feedback.
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:48 PM, cyclista@inventati.org wrote:
Colin,
Does Circlepay have desktop apps? Or just smartphone? We're trying to set up PoS and everything seems to be smartphone-only.
We want a desktop app that works with card readers and isn't a browser app. Ideally it would be open source. I know these criteria together mean probably nothing is out there - but worth checking I figure.
Thanks,
Nicholas Co-director, Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles Ithaca, NY
On 2017-02-20 20:14, Colin Leath wrote:
circlepay https://www.circle.com/invite/VSW0JS works very well.
If you want to try something using cryptocurrencies, then there are many other options. Coinbase, uphold, metamask (with chrome browser). Dash, Stellar https://www.stellar.org/ (maybe someday).
It's getting closer to where we won't need paypal or fiat any more but right now getting from fiat to crypto can still be a challenge. I like ether the best and used to use circlepay to buy bitcoin to get ether. Now I use gemini or coinbase, but getting signed up with various exchanges can be a real hassle and slow process. https://shapeshift.io/#/coins can also be a way to exchange digital assets.
Bitcoin is not environmentally friendly. Neither is ether at the moment, but at least it has a transition plan. Many wonder whether it will successfuly transition.
Here's one way circle manages some of the reporting issues fiat gateways face (with limits):
https://support.circle.com/hc/en-us/articles/213560403--Why- are-there-limits-
Circle was very fast when I used it. With coinbase bank transfers pretty much always take the full five business days.
Good luck!
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:28 AM, David Oliver nowhere3@gmail.com wrote:
Patreon is for recurring payments, so if you think you have people
willing to do that then definitely go for that.
Stripe and Square are probably the two largest Paypal alternatives.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Steven Bradley < stevencbradley@gmail.com> wrote:
Patreon? I've not used it, but I hear it referred to quite often.
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