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I would go with Stripe over Paypal. Paypal is just too problematic in many respects. They have perhaps improved their behavior over the years, but I always try
by dfraser992 9y ago
I would go with Stripe over Paypal. Paypal is just too problematic in many respects. They have perhaps improved their behavior over the years, but I always try to discourage people from using Paypal because... well, after all the e-commerce work I've done, I just don't like Paypal as a company. Strictly my opinion, based on my experiences and reading about others' hassles.
There are lots of e-commerce related companies you could use beside Stripe/Paypal, but they are the big ones in terms of global reach, I think. They key thing for you is to make donating easy as possible, so said donator does not reconsider their impulse to donate in the midst of the process. Assuming you know how to program, Stripe is dead easy to set up (Paypal is a headache).
Patreon and Bitcoin/alt-coins are solutions as well - no reason to limit yourself to only one thing. The recent kerfuffle over Patreon changing the way they deal with patrons and 'artists' is something you should look into.
Another possibility is, if you can spin what you do somehow in the right way, the outfits that support donating to charitable orgs and such might provide some functionality you find useful. There is a lot of them and they'd take a cut, but then you don't have to do much like set up your own e-commerce infrastructure.
And Brave (a new browser) is doing something with micropayments, but I do not know what the status of that is.