taking payments - possibly via Paypal

[dellzeqq]

Usual rools apply. Please type slowly. I'm no good at this stuff

If I wanted to take on-line payments, how might I do it without it costing a lot of money? Would my computer have to be switched on morning, noon and night? I have the offer of help with registration, which I've not taken up because people typically start off with a couple of questions.

This would be for the Martlets ride, for which money changes hands.

 

[marinyork]

Is this for registration fee or something along those lines or for sponsorship money raised (thousands of pounds, tens of thousands of pounds)? Do you have lots of small payments, large volume?

http://ppcalc.com/

I mean what are we talking about payments wise?

Receiving 300 x£5 or £10,000 in sponsorship money of various sizes? Just trying to get a model here.

I think the problem is that you basically need to find whether any of these things are classed as 'personal' or not, my guess would be not. So you have fees of 3.4% from the sender's side and then whatever the withdrawal fees are at your end.

Have you had a look at https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/helpscr?cmd=_display-fees

 

[dellzeqq]

Sorry, Marin. It's registration fees. The sponsorship comes in by cheque and cash. Eventually - two riders found their sponsorship money from the September ride only last week.

3.4% sounds a lot if you think of it as 1000 x £15, but, then again, a professional service (like the one that isn't performing) would charge a lot more.

 

[vernon]

Usual rools apply. Please type slowly. I'm no good at this stuff

If I wanted to take on-line payments, how might I do it without it costing a lot of money? Would my computer have to be switched on morning, noon and night? I have the offer of help with registration, which I've not taken up because people typically start off with a couple of questions.

This would be for the Martlets ride, for which money changes hands.

If you are using an online facility such as Paypal then you set it up and it runs independently of your own computer.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I'd start with paypal and migrate away from it if the need ever arises, it all happens in 'the cloud', behind your back, offline, and unlike you works 24x7x52. Most logs are considerably more challenging to fall off. Signing up takes a few minutes.

I'll happily be the first person to paypal you my Fridays subs as my CTC memberships runs out later this month. and the search party we sent out for the cheque book never returned.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Sorry, Marin. It's registration fees. The sponsorship comes in by cheque and cash. Eventually - two riders found their sponsorship money from the September ride only last week.

3.4% sounds a lot if you think of it as 1000 x £15, but, then again, a professional service (like the one that isn't performing) would charge a lot more.

Thought the Martletty ones were pretty keen on justgiving. Makes all the gift aid admin so much simpler and is so much faster to collect, and effectively is funded out of the gift aid so costs the charidee nowt.

 

[thomas]

Sorry, Marin. It's registration fees. The sponsorship comes in by cheque and cash. Eventually - two riders found their sponsorship money from the September ride only last week.

3.4% sounds a lot if you think of it as 1000 x £15, but, then again, a professional service (like the one that isn't performing) would charge a lot more.

3.4% is pretty standard. I think Google Checkout (the only other real option for you) charges the same....maybe take a look to confirm.,

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Dell, you need to ask the martlets if the reg fee is gift aid able.... if it is then something more like justgiving might be more appropariate anyway. the extra bunce is not to be sniffed at with 1000 riders.

surely it is. my entrance fee to certain artistic properties is. ???

 

[Number14]

Dell, you need to ask the martlets if the reg fee is gift aid able.... if it is then something more like justgiving might be more appropariate anyway. the extra bunce is not to be sniffed at with 1000 riders.

surely it is. my entrance fee to certain artistic properties is. ???

The reg fee isn't gift aid able. I asked this one on Saturday after the FNRttC. Apparently it's because it is an entry fee not a donation and the recipient is receiving somehting in return ie a t-shirt and medal.

It's a shame we can't have the option of a "donation" instead of entry fee for the Martletts ride and forfeit the t-shirt and medal. A few hundred people entering via donation would raise and extra 20% for little effort.

 

[dellzeqq]

The reg fee isn't gift aid able. I asked this one on Saturday after the FNRttC. Apparently it's because it is an entry fee not a donation and the recipient is receiving somehting in return ie a t-shirt and medal.

It's a shame we can't have the option of a "donation" instead of entry fee for the Martletts ride and forfeit the t-shirt and medal. A few hundred people entering via donation would raise and extra 20% for little effort.

that's a good point, and one that I will talk through with them. People are surprisingly glad of the t-shirth and medal, though.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

surely it is. my entrance fee to certain artistic properties is. ???

a bit of research....

certain well known national property charities lobbied for this rule change, with certain conditions, which dates from 2006.

hmrc have not relented on the rules re events; aimed at 'cycle cuba' style extravaganzas where the value of the benefit to the participant is measured in thousand of pounds. almost as much a pile of bollox as not allowing many charities to claim back all their vat.