[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment

Tim Spindler tjspindler at gmail.com
Fri Apr 5 12:06:38 EDT 2013


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.

Tim Spindler
C/W MARS


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Tim Spindler <tjspindler at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have not seen a way to set a minimum charge but we would be interested
> to learn if it can be done.
>
> Tim
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> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Lisa Hill <lhill at kcls.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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>> Lisa Hill | Projects Specialist | Virtual Library Services
>> http://www.kcls.org and http://catalog.kcls.org
>> p: 425.369.3480 | f: 425.369.3407
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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
>>
>> --
>> Joseph Knueven
>> Director
>> Germantown Public Library
>> 51 N. Plum St.
>> Germantown, OH 45327
>> 937-855-4001
>> knuevejo at oplin.org
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