[ls15]

In Germany there is a payment provider (viacash) that allows customers to pay in cash at selected retailers. You get a code, it gets scanned in the supermarket, you pay without any requirement for identification and get a confirmation. Big fan of that, but unfortunately only few websites are using it yet.

[freediver]

How would automatic recurring payments be handled with this?

[ls15]

They aren't. It is meant for prepaid models, which is kind of a feature for me.

[freediver]

Oh OK. Changing model to pay per use is something we thought of but most people told us they would feel anxiety to search and preferred a fixed monthly fee. We are continuing to have an open discussion about this in Discord, our site and here on HN so lets see if we figure it out.

[toper-centage]

Prepaid doens't have to mean pay-per-use. It can mean I load up 50€ to my account and you debit 10€ per month until the account balance is less than 10€.

[ls15]

posteo.de still has a fixed monthly fee with this model. They just limit the account if the credit is used up.

[freediver]

Ok so a way to top off account with a one time payment may be a good idea.

[MinorTom]

Some other pay-with-cash methods in other countries are paysafecash (like viacash), paysafecard (only anonymous if you meet strict KYC requirements), some gambling related one (whatever) and cash-by-mail.

Do note that all of them have significant fees and probably not that many users.

[ls15]

Thank you for considering it

[pt_PT_guy]

agreed. I would start to be paranoid making searches at will if I knew they are paid one by one