[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment

[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 payment we get hit by ~50c. I guess that's the price we have to pay.

Sorry can't dig the exact part which to modify as I am not on my workstation.
OFC I am presuming you are not afraid of small dirty hacks to your own installation.


Olli-Antti Kivilahti
Joensuu Regional Library


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
>
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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