To amplify:
Paying (business) taxes in The Netherlands now pretty much requires
electronic payment to an IBAN Account; a.k.a. it is (now) the standard,
default, baseline way to make payments at all.
After registering a business, the very next action is to open an (IBAN)
account. All extant dutch accounts that predate IBAN have been converted
to IBAN. All administration systems (must(!)) support IBAN.
If you want to do business in the Netherlands, you need to support IBAN.
Note that many (most?) dutch citizens do not have credit cards or paypal
accounts.
Further, IBAN is standardized throughout the euro-zone.
iDEAL is nice to have and important. IBAN is a minimal baseline requirement.
sincerely,
Kim
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:42:31PM +0100, Walter Vermeir wrote:
Op 17-11-14 om 20:28 schreef Lodewijk:
you back to the credit card page) or even via
regular bank transfer (using
an IBAN) in the Netherlands. The donation page
Historically the structure of bank account numbers are very different
from country to country. And making transfers from one bank account to
an other bank account, especially internationally, are/where complex and
expensive.
There is still a lot of room of improvement but nevertheless it has
never been so easy and cheap to do international transfers as now.
The IBAN system - International Bank Account Number - is active in a
fair chunk of the globe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank_Account_Number#Adoption
Inside the EURO-zone , 19 countries, ?? 337 million Europeans , people
can make a bank transfer to an EURO-zone IBAN bank account without
additional expenses.
Many more outside the EURO-zone can easy make international payments to
an IBAN bank account. That is not free ... but paypal is certainly not
free also. The costs are just deducted from your donation.
The WMF has always has been a huge fan of payment by credit cards.
Understandable, the WMF is founded in the country of the Credit card.
But that can make you blind to the fact that other people are used to
total other payment systems.
A couple of years ago I discovered that there where still people using
cheques in France. That came as a total surprise to me. I remember my
dad using cheques 30 years ago. I never came in to contact with a cheque
since then. To my knowledge cheques where long gone. History. Extinct.
But ... when you have the financial business concept of the WMF - when
you need money beg for it - the donation channel should be tailer made
for the specific common way of payment used by the person who is so good
to be willing to make an donation.
Walter
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines
Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
<mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>