You should also be able to go into any branch of the deposit account's bank and make a deposit to that account, by cash, without incurring any fees.
True, but then you have no record of who sent the payment.
I say just keep it simple and have people send a check made payable to whomever is collecting the money. The biggest danger here is that some cheque may be made out to the incorrect name, making them impossible/difficult to cash/deposit.
I have a hard time disagreeing with this. It'd be worth it to point out in the communication that people should be able to use their bank's billpay service to accomplish this. (I, for one, don't keep any physical checks anymore.)
And since people are paying to show up to a physical event, dealing with a handful of incorrect checks is easily solvable by just having them fork over cash when they show up. I also think it would probably be legal to deposit a check made out to an organization's name by using the name as a
d/b/a.
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