Hi all,
An update on our direct payment options and a quick survey for our supporters after Swaggerdile had to sadly close its doors.
We have been looking into direct payment methods with some success, though many of the official companies like Mastercard have been offering a 15% take for each transaction, which we would like to avoid, especially with us not being given many assurances by them about account safety or their 18+ content guidelines.
But, it looks like we have found an excellent way to handle direct payments through e-currencies!
Using these 'Crypto-currencies' solves a lot of our issues with either an installed software or a website version that quickly and effectively handles currency conversion and a virtual wallet that can be used for many different virtual currencies (The option we have works with DogeCoin, Dash, BlackCoin, ReddCoin, Monero, ZCash and many more, not BitCoin at the minute).
Looking into it, it is as simple as registering for one of these virtual wallets, just like signing up for an email address or Paypal, with your card details, and then everything is handled on their end with direct transfers to our e-wallet from yours inside of the crypto-currency site without having to go through all the complications we've been having with physical banks and US/EU trade regulations (the reason Swaggerdile went down was related to these complications with being a global money handler).
The most important factors for us are that these virtual currencies mean a secure company with state-of-the-art encryption tech handling your virtual balance and a loss of only around 2% for transaction fees, which is less than working through Patreon especially to then get our money out of Paypal.
And, more importantly, this software/website is just a payment system, so they don't have the same temperamental attitude to furry artwork or adult content that Patreon has.
As a reminder, we won't be discontinuing Patreon, for now, but we've bumped heads a few times with the staff on their refund policies and content guidelines and would really like to prioritize a method of income that can't be so easily shut off just for content disputes or the rare user playing the system. Because of the temperamental service, we will likely be implementing a delay on releases through Patreon when things are more secure - because they cannot guarantee not refunding payments, there will likely be a 'Quarantine Zone' on our server for new Patreon supporters who would still get 14 pages a month of new content beyond that on the free site, but not the most RECENT content or the whole comic zip until their payments have been guaranteed as secure after a few months.
Whilst we test this system out, we had a quick poll to check your reception to this new method, to make sure our ideas here line up with what you all want!
The system takes a few minutes to set up, and will likely involve sending a payment each month, how do we feel about using E-currencies?
a) I'd be willing to switch to an E-currency method, the extra time to install or invoice is fine.
b) I would prefer a direct card method like Swaggerdile, a 15% increase in cost would be fine.
c) I'd still prefer to use Patreon or something that uses Paypal, even if it means delays in content.
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20 Jul 2017 18:53 CEST
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