I have a question to solve and I want to know your opinion about it.
Yesterday in my production report I have mentioned that we are preparing to launch a crowdfunding campaign. Initially we were targeting to run it on Indiegogo platform.
But recently I discovered that Indiegogo dropped support for PayPal payment method.
That’s where my doubts began.
How much does this influences us? Probably a lot. At the end our main audience are IT-friendly people and many of them prefer PayPal as payment method. Many prefer not use cards for payments at all. Another nice fact — when I was running monthly crowdfunding campaigns for Synfig development in 2013-2014, more than 90% (!) of donations were transfered via PayPal.
So, what is your opinion? How much availability of PayPal influences your choice to contribute (or not)?
Are there any alternative to Indiegogo (besides Kickstarter)?
I will be happy to hear your comments.
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Ulule supports PayPal, CC, and even checks! They also let you run a multilingual campaign that switch translations depending on the visitor’s language. Plus, they give free consulting services, and accompany every team through the whole process. I met part of the team in person, and they are really good people! They are the #1 platform in Europe, by the way.
Hey, J.P.! Thank you for the hint — I wasn’t aware about Ulule. It looks very nice! Unfortunately it is not open for residents of Russia — https://support.ulule.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002208909-Conditions-to-launch-your-project- (see «Are you based in one of the eligible countries to launch a campaign (SEPA zone, United Kingdom, Canada and USA)?»). We’re getting inclined to run a self-hosted solution for crowdfunding. I think this will open additional benefits for crowdfunding some features for Synfig and OpenToonz.
That is really unfortunate. I for sure would be more inclined to participate if PayPal was an option. Keep us posted!