On 6 June 2014 08:03, aude aude.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Looks like Eventbrite has made paypal a bit easier to integrate:
http://help.eventbrite.com/customer/portal/articles/426298-use-paypal-to-pro... (the openstreetmap conferences do this, using eventbrite and also allow me to send bank transfer)
and
http://help.eventbrite.com/customer/portal/articles/1267789-use-ideal-to-pro...
I realise it's still perhaps not that simple but think it's also not that difficult.
I recently used eventbrite to handle the (paid) registration for a small professional conference - fees a good bit higher than Wikimania but vastly fewer attendees :-).
It does indeed allow paypal. (IDEAL and SOFORT are offered, but only where the *location* of the conference is in the relevant country.) However, it would only allow you to select *one* payment method - paypal or eventbrite-hosted card processing. It didn't seem to be possible to enable paypal as a backup option.
We set up a "free" ticket option to cover people who needed to use alternative methods of payment (bank transfer, cash-on-the-day, etc) but I can see the obvious logistical problems in chasing this up on Wikimania scales!
Andrew.