About Us
Paypal. On checkout, this site accepts all major credit cards on checkout via PayPal. This site has a secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate that uses industry standard 256-bit encryption technology. This is the same level of encryption used by large banks to keep your information secure. It is PCI-compliant. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is the information security standard for organizations that handle credit card and debit card information. For direct payments, you can use the link Paypal.me/cooperative.
Bitcoin / Lightning. We accept Lightning / bitcoin payments (preferred) mainly thru Open Node. However, you can also make a direct payment thru the link Pouch.ph/cooperative. Pouch is a Lightning / bitcoin wallet. Pouch automatically converts your Lightning / bitcoin payment to pesos. When you open a Pouch account, you automatically have a Philippine bank account with Netbank. So you can also pay in pesos using Pouch. Nonetheless, Pouch being a Lightning / bitcoin wallet, it can accept payment from any other Lightning / bitcoin wallet (e.g. Muun Wallet, Blue Wallet, etc.) from anyone, anywhere in the world.
To know more about Lightning / bitcoin payments, visit Lightning.coop!
Our Team. The team currently working on this site in particular and the Buy Cooperative Movement in general are members of, has done work for or otherwise had been involved in some of the leading cooperatives around the world, such as the Co-operative Press Limited, founded in Manchester in 1873, Recreational Equipment Inc., founded in 1938, Mountain Equipment Co-operative, founded in 1971, The Co-operative Group, founded in 1863 as The Co-operative Wholesale Society, 1 Cooperative Insurance System of the Philippines Life and General Insurance, founded in 1974, Cooperative Health Management Federation, founded in 2014, First Community Cooperative, founded in 1952 as the Ateneo Credit Union, ACDI Multipurpose Cooperative, founded in 1981 as the Aces Credit Cooperative Development, Inc., Sorosoro Ibaba Development Cooperative, founded in 1969 as the Sorosoro Ibaba Farmers Association, MutualCapital Advocacy Cooperative, founded in 2019, the Philippine Cooperative Center, the national apex cooperative federation organized in 1995, and other cooperatives.
The Co-operative Exchange is the 4th of the cooperative project quartet that includes The Co-operative Knowledgebase, The Co-operative Register and The New Co-operator, envisioned by its founder. We have also worked on the distribution of Co-opoly, The Game of Co-operatives, then helped save a cooperative football club some years ago!
