AFAIK is has been the alternative solution for people who had very horrible experiences with Paypal's 2 month+ waiting period for transaction procession approvals or with paid scripts like Agriya SF where one has to pay no less than $1000 just to make subtle changes in code or wait for a month to get a response on their forum.
I don't know the recent progress in catarse, but when we checked last year, it was just a skeleton.
One company I know chose Agriya recently, as it's fairly easy to find programmers.. as it seems to be popular in this segment.. and money wasn't constraint for them as they planned to get big cut from campaign creators.
AFAIK is has been the alternative solution for people who had very horrible experiences with Paypal's 2 month+ waiting period for transaction procession approvals or with paid scripts like Agriya SF where one has to pay no less than $1000 just to make subtle changes in code or wait for a month to get a response on their forum.
Then there is http://ignitiondeck.com/id/ and http://appstorm.com.br/wordpress-crowdfunding-template/ and http://siteorigin.com/wordpress-crowd-funding/ for wordpress