[FAmSCo] Paypal fee with reimbursements

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Samstag, den 02.03.2013, 09:34 -0600 schrieb inode0:
> 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).

Yes, in NA even regular PayPal accounts have this option, in Germany and
other European countries it is only available for corporate users.

> > 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.

I'm afraid it doesn't. One of the reasons that we use PayPal is that
finance accepts PayPal transactions as proof something has been paid.
But I guess that the amount needs to match exactly.

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

More accounts?

Kind regards,
Christoph