More payment options for bunq.me

WJanson

Hi 👋

First of all, hooray for the new bunq.me! Great way to let people transfer a variable amount of money.

It would be even greater if there where more payment options, so it would be more useful internationally.

Think about:

- Credit card

- PayPal

But especially credit card would make it more useful internationally. 👍

❤🧡💛💚💙💜

Robert-Purple-Bear-3964749545

W. Janson-Korhorn Completely agree it’s about time now to add more payment options, to allow transfers from every country. Credit card, PayPal, GooglePay and ApplePay are all quite viable and usable options. Nothing Bunq can’t fix, right?

johannes

W. Janson-Korhorn Now you can top up your bunq account even with Apple Pay, but bunq.me is still limited to Sofort and IDEAL. Both not even supported for all bunq countries.
Would be really awesome if all this new top up options could also find their way to bunq.me :)

Tim

Hi 👋 W. Janson-Korhorn

Looks like new payment methods are added today!

It's now possible to pay bunq.me links with:

iDEAL
Apple Pay
Credit/Debit Card
Bancontact
Sofort

Steffany-Green-Tiger-3565927607

Hi Wouter🙋

Glad to hear you are as happy as we are with this new feature!! Hooray indeed!🙌

Thank you for our suggestion!!

I will go ahead and turn it into a wish so we can see what other bunqers think of it and keep track of how many votes it gets😎

Cheers!!

der13teFreitag

I also think, this would be great!

However, what I still do not understand: Why are bunq and iDeal such big buttons and SOFORT is just a small link below of them, which is only visible, as soon as an amount is inserted? Here in Austria nearly nobody can pay with bunq or iDeal, but everybody is able to use SOFORT. If they are looking on a request or at the new bunq.me page, they see only the other options and are thinking, they are not able to pay...

Enco

Dominik Same issue in Germany

GewoonDenny

Yes, that would be great! Especially PayPal.

Riley

Sofort link isn't shown on desktop, can this be changed? Maybe change it too a button too!

Paypal would also be a nice addition.

Bancontact would also be nice for Belgian bank accounts that don't use sofort or PayPal.

Riley

I also had this problem, I was thinking sofort wasn't possible until an amount was entered.

Bastiaan

Yes, please add creditcard payment, PayPal, Bancontact and Giropay 👍

soap

I think the main hurdle with this is that bunq needs to pay a transaction fee to handle creditcard and paypal payments, these are not fixed but based on a percentage of the sum. So -if- this would be integrated than the costs of the transactions should somehow be paid by the donating or the receiving party; this makes things a bit more complicated than just ‘adding an extra button’. Maybe a system that when you setup the bunq.me page you can switch between “i will carry the transaction costs” or “donations will pay transaction fee separately”. Meh, not ideal (no pun intended)

DaveFlash

Also add bitcoin, ether, and Apple pay for international users.

DaveFlash

Yeah, but take patreon for example only accepts credit card (as far as I know), and they charge the transaction fee to the donating party, don't see why bunq couldn't do the same...

Simon-Golden-Starfish

Add an option to add /xy after the bunq.me/itsme link, xy being a number that prepopulates the amount field. Takes away a bit of needless friction.

GewoonDenny

You can add ?amount=10 for example after your link to pre-fill the amount field (:

Simon-Golden-Starfish

Nice. Didn't know, but why these spurious characters in between?

GewoonDenny

It’s the default method to add GET parameters to an url. I hope they simplify it by using your method.

Vincent-Teal-Eagle

Fantastic feature but indeed would love to have additional payment options such as credit card and paypal, only then it would make sense to use internationally. Also it would be great if there were more ways to customize the text field, include links to projects, photos etc.

H

This would be an awesome feature! And a bigger button for SOFORT would be great as well.

Xan

I believe bunq wants to become the new PayPal, so I doubt it will ever be supported. But then again this bunq and they can do everything.

In either case creditcard support is a primary need for international use. With fee coverage options like split, account owner pays or sender pays.

MarJamJars

Indeed, the 'Sofort' button should be the same size as other options.

Now it seems like this bunq.me service is aimed at dutch market only, while we do have so many other european countries and customers already.

As bunq has intentions to become a internationall/global bank, we should not make a difference in which payment methods are presented.

Maybe a puldownmenu would be a solution when there are more available?

https://bunq.me/anyway

dennisklappe

Hey Simon, there's an option to do this. Check http://bunqme.nl/

Patrick-Lime-Owl

Yes, this would be a great addition, not just for Bunq.me but also regular Bunq requests.

Creditcard, Paypal would be the most used and common options but also Skrill (other e-wallets) and Apple Pay would be interesting.