Topic: Annual subscriptions PLEASE!

This is the 3rd time my bank has charged me $35 for forgetting to pay my bill.  The ONLY thing charged to this card is the $3/mo sub fee for Chumby, and I forget about it constantly.

You talked about looking into this way back.  Can you readdress it?  I have paid $105 in FEES for this.  Something like $30/year or even $36/yr would be paid immediately!!!

Once a year would work well.  I used to pay $30 to the card and let them draw as needed keeping a negative balance, but the new rules are they must return negative balances by check, withing 60 days.

Thanks!

Re: Annual subscriptions PLEASE!

It's next on my list of things to do.

Re: Annual subscriptions PLEASE!

In the meantime, you could put your Chumby to work for its keep.
Set up a Google calendar account and add reminder [events] to pay the card to your calendar. Then add the Google calendar widget to one of your most-watched Chumby channels.
The reminders will show up on your Chumby, you will remember to pay the card, so no more fees.

Re: Annual subscriptions PLEASE!

Also, with most banks these days you can set it up to get emails or text reminders.

Tar, feathers, congress. Some assembly required.

Re: Annual subscriptions PLEASE!

What several people are doing is use those pre-paid $50 Visa gift cards you can get at any supermarket - they're accepted by Stripe.  you can even spend the balance if you decide to cancel.

Re: Annual subscriptions PLEASE!

Sorry this is taking so long - Real Work is taking a lot of time at the moment due to the upcoming Mobile World Conference.  Me and hundreds of other developers getting last minute requests for changes....

Re: Annual subscriptions PLEASE!

It's ok.  What I have done is do an autopay for $3 from checking to the credit card on 15th of month

Don't know why I didn't do that up front.   That was dumb.

Re: Annual subscriptions PLEASE!

If you make annual prepayments non-recurring, it'd be drop-dead simple to accept Bitcoin as well (and the fees are a lot less too, only 0.5%). With (non-recurring) Stripe Checkout, it's literally a one-line change in the "stripe-button" script, and then Stripe handles the Bitcoin collection and exchange to USD stuff.

Of course, you might only have a single Bitcoin using customer, so it's not like it should be high on your priority list tongue