[karma_pharmer]

Oh it's much worse than that. They only accept member fees paid by SEPA transfers. As in Single Euro Payment Area. Don't live in a country that uses the Euro or is part of the EU? Your money isn't welcome here.

What a dumb policy.

[p_l]

They support SEPA Direct Debit or a manual bank transfers over SWIFT.

The latter works everywhere you can make a normal international bank transfer. It's just manual, while SEPA Direct Debit is automatic payment.

[anonzzzies]

> What a dumb policy.

It would be, if it were true.

[gruez]

Just use a service like Wise?

[rty32]

Yes, sign up for a service I would never use otherwise to send money is a very convincing and straightforward way to support this project.

[m0nhawk]

This is just wrong: they support both SEPA and international bank transfers through IBAN.

[manuel_w]

Isn't IBAN just the account identifier SEPA uses?

(The other identifier necessary to make SEPA transfers being the BIC = bank id.)

[arianvanp]

You can make SWIFT transactions to IBAN numbers. no problem whatsoever.

[jwildeboer]

For donations they also offer liberapay so you can use stripe and PayPal.

For membership fees you can also use direct bank transfer.

[p_l]

SEPA is essentially just a specific subset service set of a SWIFT international bank transfer. Or in other words, the interface of SEPA is a subset of parameters in SWIFT transfer. And it mandated IBAN numbers on stragglers in EU.

[hedwall]

IBAN is the international bank number.

[jwildeboer]

(no, that’s the BIC (Bank Identifier Code AKA SWIFT).

IBAN is the International Bank Account Number.