[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment

2013-04-05 Thread Joe
Good day everybody. I had a quick question about accepting credit cards through paypal for those libraries that do. Do any of you charge a convenience fee to your public for charging fine payments? Tinkering with a test server, it looks like the entire payment process occurs from within

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment

2013-04-05 Thread Tim Spindler
We do not. We end up just absorbing the cost. Tim On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Joe knuev...@oplin.org wrote: Good day everybody. I had a quick question about accepting credit cards through paypal for those libraries that do. Do any of you charge a convenience fee to your public for

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment

2013-04-05 Thread Lisa Hill
-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 8:23 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment Good day everybody. I had a quick question about accepting

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment

2013-04-05 Thread Tim Spindler
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 8:23 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment Good day everybody. I had a quick question about accepting credit cards through paypal for those libraries that do. Do any of you charge a convenience fee to your

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment

2013-04-05 Thread Tim Spindler
: Friday, April 05, 2013 8:23 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment Good day everybody. I had a quick question about accepting credit cards through paypal for those libraries that do. Do any of you charge a convenience fee to your public

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment

2013-04-05 Thread David Busby
Please note that PayPal terms do *not* permit charging a fee for usage. That is, you cannot charge Patrons a fee to offset the processing fees that PayPal charges you. /djb On 5 Apr 2013 08:29, Joe knuev...@oplin.org wrote: Good day everybody. I had a quick question about accepting credit

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment

2013-04-05 Thread David Busby
In Section 5 on https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/terms-outside#receiving_payments In short: No Surcharges. Under Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express regulations and the laws of several states, including California, merchants may not charge a fee to the buyer for

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment

2013-04-05 Thread Kivilahti Olli-Antti
Hi Tim and Lisa. I was testing PayPal in our Fenno-localized Evergreen instance and came upon an interesting find in the TPAC templates. You can set the minimum payment amount there. There is ready code for it, just change 0 to 5. I think we are going to just absorb the cost. For a 5€ PayPal

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment

2013-04-05 Thread Joe
I agree about perhaps getting legal council involved. There is a definite contradiction there, unless governments are not considered merchants for the sake of their policies.. Although, we're also talking about paying a fee, and the language about surcharges also relate to selling

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment

2013-04-05 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On April 5, 2013 at 12:06:38 PM Tim Spindler tjspind...@gmail.com wrote: We have another question, can you have separate paypal accounts for different libraries (so libraries use their own accounts). I'm not sure we want to do this but the question has come up. IIRC (not sitting in front of EG