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How about Ko-Fi? I know it allows anonymous donations (you can do this by donating without making an account/logging out if you have an account), fees are low, and payments go directly to your linked payment account rather than being held by the platform (this is all according to their official documentation). I only have experience as a donor, though, so idk what the experience is like as a receiver and if there are issues with accounts being flagged or anything like that.
I forgot about Ko-Fi. I have made payments on there too. Like you said, I was able to just plug in credit card info without making an account or anything. Also like you said, I have no experience receiving payments on there. It looks like they forward the payments through either PayPal or Stripe.
Just to add more info to the conversation: neither of those pay immediately. PayPal can take 1-2 days, though I think they have an instant option for an additional fee. Stripe will take 2 days, and they'll also hold your first payment for a week and pretend this is a standard practice, though none of the others do it. There's no fee you can pay to get around that initial delay. (I set up online payment processing for my husband's small engine repair work, and we learned that last one the hard way last fall.)
Thanks for the additional info! When you say "pay immediately", do you mean pay out to a bank account, or do you mean become available to be used at all? In either case this wouldn't help with something like being overdrafted or paying bills, but I've been able to use PayPal for tap-to-pay so having a PayPal balance might be enough to pay for groceries or similar.
Almost makes me want to begrudgingly suggest Monero, but crypto is such a pain in the ass that I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to jump through those hoops (especially on the recipient side).
I meant pay out to a bank account. I knew PayPal offered cards to access your balance there, but I didn't realize they do the tap-to-pay thing, that's good to know!