[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment

[Lisa Hill]

Hi-
Our board of trustees decided to absorb that cost ourselves.
Some libraries put a minimum on fines patrons can pay with their credit card. 
Say they can only pay the fine if it is 5.00 and higher- I can't remember if there is a way to do this with Evergreen or not- but that helps them justify the cost of the processing the credit card fee.

I think that you could see the charge- and you can test this yourself using the test cards that paypal gives you.
Contact me offline if you need those numbers.
Thanks- hope this helps.
Lisa


 
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-----Original Message-----
From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at 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 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 the TPAC when the public pay fines themselves.  I know paypal has a setting where a fee can be automatically added to a balance, but I'm concerned that if we went this route and patrons were paying from within the OPAC that they would never see this fee until after their charges had been made.

We are currently on 2.3.1

Thank you in advance.

Joe

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