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Hi Teddy2015 , I understand you are not interested in a response, but I am writing this for the wider community who will read your post (and this reply)
For point 4, the ability to email is not being removed and replaced with a cost to continue using.
The upgrade/verification process itself does not cost.
And the additional fees associated with online payments only applies if you use the service.
Therefore you can absolutely upgrade to secure invoicing (free) and disable the payments feature to continue distributing your invoices using the MYOB software platform.
For point 5, there is no protection necessary, as it is a one-time verification of these documents and they will not be stored, and therefore do not need to be protected. The documents are sent to frankieone, you can read their privacy policy here
For point 7, if this was optional, it would defeat the purpose of providing additional security to our customers and working towards reducing invoice fraud for consumers in Australia. If there was a person or business that wanted to utilise the MYOB platform for invoice fraud then having this as an optional change would have no impact.
Finally, and this I suppose one is more for you Teddy, but for point 1, why don't your clients want to adopt multiple payment options? Is it simply because they have always used bank transfer and don't want to change?
I know that in my personal life, if I do business with a company who only accepts bank transfer that I find it a pain and inevitably the invoice gets paid late, or I simply choose to do business with someone who does accept card payments.
There are many benefits that can come from using this feature and accepting multiple payment options.
You can learn more about the online payments feature through this link here
If your clients are mostly other businesses, then I can see why they would prefer EFT. From my perspective, at work, not personally, it's a whole lot easier to deal with suppliers who accept EFT payments because we can use MYOB's ABA file creator and pay everyone all in one go rather than having to pay every invoice separately with a credit card, or bpay with a different loooong reference number to type every time.