We need a solution to process international payments that isn't an American fintech company or cryptocurrency and is privacy-respectful like yesterday.

Please ๐Ÿ™

Edit: By privacy-respectful, I don't mean anonymous. I mean a solution that practices data minimization, and does not share and monetize the data it collects.

@Em0nM4stodon not sure where you are located, but us EU citizens in Germany, France and Belgium potentially already have access to WERO, which is a PayPal alternative handled by the partner banks.

Itโ€™s not much yet, but itโ€™s a start!

@distractions I'm in Canada, so sadly I won't benefit from this myself. But I'm so glad Europe is working on alternatives! ๐Ÿ™Œ

@Em0nM4stodon @distractions

Even for domestic payments in Canada, I can't recall ever seeing an online store use the Interac Online protocol that has been around for at least 15 years. I remember setting it up on my company's web store long ago, but soon after that we moved to an online store platform that simply didn't support it.

The closest I've seen is accepting email transfers but that takes a lot of manual processing and requires holding the order in limbo until payment is received.