[derekprior]

GitHub Sponsors is out of beta for developers with a bank account in any of the 30 countries supported by Stripe.

For folks with bank accounts outside of that list, GitHub Sponsors is still in beta, we're accepting applications, and we’ll continue to roll out general availability to those countries in the coming months.

[fierarul]

Thanks. The blog post could be edited a bit then. It says:

> GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta and generally available to developers with bank accounts in 30 countries and growing.

and the link points to https://help.github.com/en/github/supporting-the-open-source... where only Stripe Connect has a list of countries while wire is also a possibility.

It's not obvious that somehow out of beta means mandatory Stripe Connect and no wire transfer. Although I assume that perhaps you use Stripe for wire transfers too?

[devonzuegel]

Thanks for the feedback! We've updated the post to clarify the options for folks who don't have a bank account in one of the 30 countries currently out of beta: https://github.blog/2019-11-04-github-sponsors-is-now-out-of...

We do support ACH transfer and wire transfer (as noted in the documentation) for developers with bank accounts in countries that are still in the limited beta. In the coming months, we'll be expanding general availability for more countries on a rolling basis. I'll look into clarifying that in the help docs too.

[chrismeller]

Couldn’t one also just use TransferWise, which provides you a local bank account in whichever currency you need?