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Re: Setting up a Paypal account
From: Graham Clarkson
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 08:42:26 GMT
We have been using Stripe for our payment system. They make payments directly into our account. This is now in the second year and has worked very well for us. The reporting is also very good. The account was very easy to set up. The reason for the change from Paypal was a technical issue, but it has worked very well.
I have been speaking to some the charities we work with and a number of them use Stripe.
Graham Clarkson
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Re: Setting up a Paypal account
From: rthatche@outlook.com
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 09:22:11 GMT
We organise a large running event with over £100K receipts/annum using Jotform linked with Stripe. Very simple to set up, works seamlessly and Stripe offers a discount for not-for -profit organisations of 1.4% plus 20p/transaction. Paypal do something similar but we have found the payment integration into the Jotform form is easier with Stripe. To get the same functionality with Paypal you need to pay more. Stripe have very good and easy to use reporting systems and money can be automatically transferred to Club/Charity Trust accounts on dates specified.
A recent problem with Jotform is they have changed their Silver package to limit payments to 100/month. To upgrade to Gold is a significant hike. (over double th price) We complained to Jotform as a long standing/charity user and they have increased our Silver limit to 1000. Always worth asking. Don't forget to ask for the Jotform, not-for-profit discount..50%
Richard Thatcher
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Re: Tracking Father Christmas
From: Graham Clarkson
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:48:44 GMT
Sue
It is South Queensferry
https://www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/homepage.php?ClubID=112
Cheers
Graham
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Re: Tracking Father Christmas
From: Sue Lippmann
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 23:06:42 GMT
Thanks Graham.
After looking at your site and spending some time experimenting I have finally managed to get the map into the ‘Brief Details’ section of the Event. The page isn’t live yet as we don’t start our Santa until next Monday. If you’ve nothing better to do next week do have a look and you’ll see that it’s immediately visible to someone visiting our home page.
Cheers
Sue
http://www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/homepage.php?ClubID=1541
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Re: card readers
From: Liz Hepworth
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:56:56 GMT
Hi Chris
We have a PayPal Here card reader that we are using this year. Our trials of it went brilliantly so I can’t wait for the person who says’ Sorry only got a card’.
If anyone wants anymore info very happy to help
Liz
Sec RC Dronfield
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Re: card readers
From: Dave Wheatley
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 17:24:51 GMT
An enquiry was circulated to our District
"I just wondered if you have any information about using contactless cards for our bucket collections. We are down on our takings and it’s thought more and more people are not carrying cash but using their cards or mobile phones."
and this was my reply, which is also applicable to this post
"Many years ago we set up a PayPal business account and get a better rate than normal as we are a registered charity. It was set up by our Charity Trust Fund not the Club Fund, but we can transfer money into either account. I have used this very successfully to take money for events via a JotForm form that I set up and place onto our club website at the appropriate time. They also have website badges and banners that you can place onto your club website to accept donations.
Last year we purchased a PayPal Here card reader which works in conjunction with our PayPal account and accepts all types of cards including contactless. Again this has been very successfully used at events to collect in payments. You download an App onto your phone or tablet and use this as the “till” then hand the reader to the customer to do their bit – just like in a real shop.
I have not used it in the manner that Sheila is suggesting but there is no reason why it will not work as everything is battery powered. The app does take a little time to load and connect to the reader so it would need to be on and connected at all times or the donor is likely to walk on by if it takes too long.
There are no monthly fees. The reader is fairly expensive but they regularly do deals when you can get it at up to 50% off. The transaction fees are a bit higher than commercial systems but they have a VERY high standing charge.
All in all I am very happy with PayPal and the Here card reader. I will now consider Sheila’s idea for our static sleigh collection – don’t think it will work for door-to-door as all collectors will need one.
https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/merchant
https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/credit-card-reader
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Dave Wheatley
Rotary Stanford & Corringham
Rotary GB&I-Webmaster Group Owner
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Re: card readers
From: Chris Sweeney
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 17:34:56 GMT
Thanks Dave
... and thanks to Della who raised it in the other thread I couldn't find.
Cheers
Chris S
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Re: card readers
From: Ken Scott
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 20:14:01 GMT
Greetings all. We recently used a card reader for the first time at our tin shake at the City Station for Children in Need
Excellent response. 20% of amounts collected were received via the card. We use SumUp but they are all broadly similar, so just go for it
Ken Scott
St Albans Priory
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Re: Contactless
From: JC Greening
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 17:01:51 GMT
Hi
We’ve been using an iZettle card reader (also contactless) for a couple of years with Santa, for auctions and at Heathrow for Children in Need. Simple to use app - they take 2.75%, no other costs once you’ve bought the reader (was about £20). Now owned by PayPal.
John Greening RC Elthorne-Hillingdon
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Re: Contactless
From: Tony Carter
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 17:13:20 GMT
We are trialling iZettle and we are very pleased with trails to date.
Acquired a reader for £29 (an offer deal), no regular monthly fees so suits occasional use at events and tin shakes. 1.75% fees off any transactions.
I am aware other clubs are trialling the same.
I also witnessed problems with Paypal in another business – not the tool itself, which is fine. But once you start having decent amounts of cash flowing then the anti money laundering rules kick in and a bit of bureaucracy is encountered before you can transfer money.
Tony
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Re: Setting up a Paypal account
From: eugene kraft
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 19:57:53 GMT
Can you perhaps clarify Jotform payments? Is the limit based on the number of times somebody makes a payment? If so it looks as if the Silver tariff is the minimum one can usefully have because the Free tariff is pretty useless. Am I correct?
eugene
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Re: Setting up a Paypal account
From: Graham Powell
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 21:09:54 GMT
That's basically as I see it. We chose Gold this time around but I think we could have got away with Silver. It just depends on how big your event is going to be. You have to be a good guesser.
Graham
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Re: card readers
From: Derek Rogers
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 07:23:49 GMT
Stonehouse has a reader that we used – as a trial – for a Fireworks event earlier this year, and are now going to have a limited trial for those who claim to have no cash at Christmas. Not sure how it will work, but will try.
Use SumUp . Seems really fine – Bluetooth to your mobile phone. Funds in our charity account within 2/3 days. Multiple user can be set to use the one reader very easily with all of the funds going into the one charity account.
If you get an into – then only costs £14 for the unit; no monthly charge, and just 0.69% commission.
I can give anyone who is interested an intro for this price – our charity account gets a £10 commission form SumUp.
Rgds
Derek Rogers
"Kerina", Glebe Close, Frampton-on-Severn,
Glos, GL2 7EL, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)1452 740883; Mobile: +44 (0)7786 743746.
mailto:derekbrogers@btinternet.com
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Re: card readers
From: Michael Hendry
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 07:31:43 GMT
Morning, Willie.
There’s been a lot of traffic on the Rotary GB&I-Webmasters forum about using card readers for cash collection - to catch those who say “sorry, don’t carry cash” to can-shakers.
Here’s the most recent one.
Do you have any thoughts?
One of the other contributors to the discussion said they’d raised 20% of cash at a recent collection via the card reader.
Probably not practicable for the mobile Santa’s Sleigh, but might be good for static collections.
Michael
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Re: card readers
From: Michael Hendry
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 07:39:00 GMT
Oops!
This was intended to go to our Treasurer, please ignore.
Michael
PS Is there a way to delete an accidental post from the forum?
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Re: card readers
From: Dave Wheatley
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 08:22:20 GMT
To delete or edit messages click on the More link to the top right of the applicable message. Then select the required option.
I assume this is available to all - if not it must be an Admin function and I can delete for you.
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Rotary Stanford & Corringham
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Re: card readers
From: Andrew Picken
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 10:43:56 GMT
Dear Chris
We certainly do use a card reader and Paypal account to collect money at our Frost Fair and various other events. It is not connected to the Website. Very straightforward so far, though we have not had high volumes.
with best wishes
Andrew Picken
Rotary CLubof Hatfield
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Re: card readers
From: Chris Sweeney
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:02:51 GMT
Thanks everyone
I downloaded the PayPal app to experiment - and have ordered a card reader!
Cheers
Chris S
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Re: Tracking Father Christmas
From: Graham Clarkson
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 09:07:10 GMT
Sue
That’s good. will do.
Graham
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Re: Tracking Father Christmas
From: l.monger
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 09:53:31 GMT
First night using www.sleightracker.co.uk and it worked perfectly. Just used an old android with a £10 SIM card in the cab and had no problems with it. Not sure if there was a connection but a lot more people out on the streets waiting for us than normal and take for that route was about 80% up on previous years
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
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Re: Tracking Father Christmas
From: Ian Holliday
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 10:20:43 GMT
well done Ian. I've been following all the tracking comments/advice as it's something I would like to have done (maybe next year!)
However my "expert" counsels against it as follows:-
phone can go to sleep then sleigh looks static
Lag in transmission/reception means sleigh is beyond where it's shown to be.
Any such issues on your run?
Regards, Ian Holliday
RC Amber Valley D1220
Santa Experience coordinator
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Re: Setting up a Paypal account
From: rthatche@outlook.com
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 09:28:54 GMT
This is really a bit sneaky of Jotform, but they are all doing it! Changing the Silver payments limit down to just 100 payments/month forces a high number of their customers to go for the Gold package which is over double the cost. If you have spent a great deal of time developing your form you will be reluctant to change to another provider.
The bronze pack allows only 10 payments/month and Free only 3 payments/month..so pretty well useless really. We get close to the 1000 payments/month level for several months and Jotform have been sympathetic and allowed us this level on the Silver pack, which as a Charity we get for 50% of the Commercial rate. So no complaints here.
Eugene, not quite clear on the Stripe query. Stripe works in exactly the same way as Paypal. You set up you own Stripe account and then you can accept on-line credit/debit card payments through the Stripe gateway. I don't think you can pay using a Paypal account. The benefit of this is you have no direct contact with any payment card details and do not have to undergo the stringent checks required if you take direct payments. This is all handled by Stripe.
I think you can purchase a card payment machine which allows you to accept direct card payments when the card holder is present.
Richard Thatcher
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Re: Setting up a Paypal account
From: eugene kraft
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 10:14:21 GMT
Thanks Richard. That is very helpful.
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From: johnw1912@aol.com
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:34:04 GMT
The log in page under "Members" won't open. Who should I contact for help?
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