Not a crypto bro, and not sure how crypto friendly your users could be. This being said, nano is built for this ( https://nano.org/ ).
It's unlikely. Fiat only kind of user base!
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#12Bank transfer? Mail them a cheque? Mind you, the tax implications of paying users may be considerable. I certainly know Amazon has to handle this for all its self-publishing authors; and even if you're not American you have to declare that annually to Amazon.com.
Yes, agreed, an even bigger minefield than payments.
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#13Maybe discount their monthly payments? If that's your customer model.
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#14not sure if they can do it but Mercury.com (online bank) allows for API access and wires that cost nothing. Might want to check out their APIs and see if you can do something like what you want to do abovee.
Hey thanks, we bank with Mercury and I didn't know that wires were free. Just domestic US I'd assume.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
PayPal is ghetto. I had some issues registering with AWS, and they called me and we sorted things out. It took more than a week to fully register, as opposed to Google's GCP where I didn't even need to think about it.
What does a ghetto have anything to do with this? I'm not sure I follow the comparison, could you please explain it?
For context, average payment in the low hundreds.
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#16I would consider a solution like Tipalti ( https://tipalti.com/ ), depending on the scale of the problem. It will handle the onboarding of payees and also the disbursement of payments globally along a variety of payment rails. It has an open API. Probably the best solution if the economics make sense. Edit: for context, this is the tech that Twitch, Roblox, etc. use to pay their users. For this purpose it is easily t…
Cheers, I'm looking now.
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#17Not a crypto bro, and not sure how crypto friendly your users could be. This being said, nano is built for this ( https://nano.org/ ).
It's unlikely. Fiat only kind of user base!
Brave did something where they’d “pay” sites by making a default wallet and you had to redeem it. It’s as successful as you can guess.
If you can be less vague it might help, such as amounts of payments or times you want to pay out.
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#20Might be overdone for your usecase, but you can check out Stripe Treasury.