When we process a PayPal (PP) payment we are charged
2.9% of the
transaction value plus $.30 per transaction. Foreign
currency
transactions cost an additional 2.5% A multiple
subscription
transaction gets only a single transaction fee.
($.30).
The question is how much do we remit to the other
societies.
We need to establish a standard as to how we charge
the Sections and
Cooperating Societies.
I propose that we charge each non-AIS subscription
the 2.9% and the
$.30 transaction fee. That is the same amount that a
Section and
Cooperating Societie would be charged if they had
their own PayPal
service. This approach would allow Tom to use a
simple lookup table to
see how much to remit to the other group. It would
mean that we would
"earn" an additional $.30 for each subscription that
came as part of a
multiple subscription transaction.
The same rate would apply to any non-AIS
subscription that came in as a
single transaction.
The alternative would require Tom to calculate a
separate charge for
each subscription that came in as part of a multiple
subscription
transaction and distribute the Transaction Fee
across all the
subscriptions in a single transaction.
In a separate discussion Tom Gormley has pointed
out:
The existing arrangement we have with accepting
credit card charges
for Offshore non-AIS Members and domestic
AIS/Section members is that
we currently do not pass on the fees involved with
these charges. This
is based on AIS Policy (see below) which is silent
on the subject.
It costs us $1.02 to process a $25.00 charge for
AIS Members but since
most Section charges are about 30% of that I think
we should continue
to provide this service gratis as a warm fuzzy to
the Sections and
Co-ops. As Electronic payments (and membership)
develop and grow we
can then revisit this issue. If we choose to
charge them from the
get-go how do we handle our existing methodology
on Section payments?
As far as I can tell through a search of the AIS
minutes from 1988 thru
2003 the only mention of the Membership Secretary
accepting credit card
transactions is in Oct '97 when M. Harlow reported
that she had sent
out new ITJs that indicated the AIS would accept
credit card
transactions. There is no mention (that I could
find) of whether AIS
should or should not absorb the fee for a credit
card transaction.
There may have been a policy decision, but I cannot
find mention of it.
I propose (although I can't make this as a motion)
that we no longer
absorb the credit card charges for subscriptions to
Sections and
Cooperating Societies submitted to the membership
office and that
PayPal charges be deducted from the amounts remitted
to the Sections
and Cooperating Societies for subscriptions
submitted thru the AIS
PayPal page. If Sections and Cooperating Societies
so choose they can
specify an additional charge for credit card or
PayPal payments.
THE AMERICAN IRIS SOCIETY
CURRENT AIS MEMBERSHIP OFFICE POLICY CONCERNING
ACCEPTING DUES FOR SECTIONS AND COOPERATING
SOCIETIES
MARCH, 2002
PLEASE FILE FOR REFERENCE AND PLEASE ENSURE THAT
ONLY CORRECT
INFORMATION IS PUBLISHED TO YOUR MEMBERS
The AlS Membership Office will accept dues for
Sections and
Cooperating Societies when tendered by AIS members
simultaneously with
their AIS dues and paid either by check, money
order, or Visa or
MasterCard.
All dues collected on behalf of Sections or
Cooperating Societies are
forwarded by the AlS Membership Office to the
appropriate recipients
during the first week of the month subsequent to
the month in which
they were received by the Membership Office.
As a special gesture of support to the Sections
and Cooperating
Societies, the AlS Membership Office will accept
dues from members of
these groups living outside the USA who are not
also tendering AlS
dues simultaneously, including those who are not
AlS members, when
those
persons pay with either Visa or MasterCard.
Members of Sections or Cooperating Societies who
live within the USA
and who are not paying AIS dues simultaneously
should always send
their check for renewal directly to the membership
chairman of the
appropriate Section or Cooperating Society.
The AIS Membership Office does not accept charge
payments for special
contributions to the Sections or Cooperating
Societies.
John | "There be dragons here"
| Annotation used by
ancient cartographers
| to indicate the edge of
the known world.
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