[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment

[Joe]

Perhaps it depends on your entity's legal status?  On paypal's 
government entities site 
(https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/government-payments)  it states 
that governments are allowed to charge a fixed transaction fee for all 
transactions, either credit, debit, etc..  I can imagine that paypal 
would prohibit all others from charging a fee.  The text from their site 
is below.

Thanks.

Joe


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Some government entities choose to absorb PayPal transaction fees. 
However, it is possible to recoup some fees from constituents in the 
form of a fixed fee.* Government entities are allowed to charge a 
convenience fee that applies to all forms of online payments, even debit 
and ACH transactions. The fee must be a fixed amount – such as $10 per 
transaction – rather than a percentage fee.

* Different convenience fee rules apply for tax payments.

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Joseph Knueven
Director
Germantown Public Library
51 N. Plum St.
Germantown, OH 45327
937-696-9998x10
knuevejo at oplin.org

On 4/5/2013 12:37 PM, David Busby wrote:
>
> 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" <knuevejo at oplin.org 
> <mailto:knuevejo at 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 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 <tel:937-855-4001>
>     knuevejo at oplin.org <mailto:knuevejo at oplin.org>
>

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