Introducing Amazon as IndieGoGo’s New Payment Solution!

It is our pleasure to announce 'Amazon Payments' as IndieGoGo’s new payments solution partner.  Over the past few weeks we have transitioned IndieGoGo from PayPal to Amazon to bring you a better payments platform.

NEW BENEFITS INCLUDE:

• Direct deposit of fan contributions (no more waiting!)

• No more fundraising time limits

• Donations for 501c-3 and fiscally sponsored projects

Direct Deposit: Fan contributions will now get paid directly to projects.  Project owners will no longer need to wait until the end of their project's funding period to receive their projects’ raised funds.

No More Fundraising Time Limits:  The 45-day funding period has been eliminated.  Fundraising successes will continue to be recorded and prominently displayed in list-form on a project's profile no matter if a round took 3 days, 30 days or 300 days.  Therefore, we continue to encourage project owners to break down their funding needs and raise money in rounds in order to build a track record of successful fundraising and execution on their profile.

Donationsfor 501c-3 or fiscally sponsored projects:  Filmmakers whose projects are incorporated as a 501c-3 or fiscally sponsored by a 501c-3 organization can now collect donations by registering as a non-profit merchant with Amazon.

We at IndieGoGo are truly excited about bringing IndieGoGo’s members Amazon Payments.  Please feel free to email: support@indiegogo.com should you have any questions.

Best,

The IndieGoGo Team

Comments

[Richard Crook]

I know selling oa movie on Amazon will get it listed, but will this help our projects get into IMDB?

[Benjamin Gadoury]

Amazon payments is a great initiative, but i've notice a little problem for international filmmaker. It's not possible to get ours indie gogo funding through amazon payments. When you edit in the fonding section of your project, there's a link " accept marketplace fee, amazone payment". This link is heading to the U.S. amazon web site only, then ( even if i already have an account with the canadian amazon .ca) i sign up with my email address and password ( the same then my canadian amazon account) and it work, but then the U.S amazon website ask me to Sign Up for Amazon Payments Business Account ( which i already have with amazon.ca ) with U.S addresses only, and no possibility to change the country option...etc etc. The problem is that i dont have any address in USA. My question is how do i fundraise the money from my projet video eldorado?
thank you vey much
Benjamin