[FAmSCo] Paypal fee with reimbursements

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On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Christoph Wickert
<christoph.wickert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 02.03.2013, 08:28 +0100 schrieb Buddhike Kurera:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> There is a problem with PayPal reimbursement method, it associates
>> with other payment methods as well. The fee they charge.
>> In Paypal there are two methods either the sender or the receiver pays
>> the fee. At this moment when reimbursing it is selected that the
>> receiver pays the fee.

I wasn't aware of this problem as in NA we can pay the finance charge
as the payer so the recipient receives the correct amount (unless I
goof it up).

> I already brought up this topic on this list a while back and discussed
> it with Ruth at FUDCon EMEA last year. Here is what we came up with:
>      1. The option to have the sender pay the fees is not available in
>         some countries, e.g. in Germany. That's why Jörg cannot take
>         over fees.
>      2. He would need a corporate PayPal account, which requires him to
>         have some kind of business. He doesn't have one, so the business
>         would be Red Hat.
>      3. Red Hat would have to get corporate accounts for all the CC
>         holders, but both Legal and Finance departments have concerns
>         about this.

NA wouldn't need one but I don't see why we couldn't just do the
adjustment ourselves. If the fee is 2% and the amount owed is X then
make a payment in the amount of X+0.02/0.98*X which depending on
rounding could miss by at most a penny I think. Similar calculations
can be done for other fee amounts. Then we could report it as a
reimbursement of X with a fee of 0.02/0.98*X if that suits finance ok.

That at least to me seems simpler than creating more accounts to deal with.

John