Hi Carol, Sorry you're messages got held by Mailman. I must have miss-configured something in the Co-op (admin) list, which I use to archive PayPal data. (At least it was you who discovered the bug and not someone else who might have been really confused ;-) On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:01:25AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You've got cash! > > Carol Perry just sent you money with PayPal. > > Amount: $1.26 > Subject: Taxable item Mountain People's Order Hmmm. I keep forgetting to explain on the site that payments under $10 should add $.50 instead of 5% because PayPal charges a flat $.30 fee on payments under $15; so we can end up loosing money on small payments. (Some JavaScript to automatically calculate this in the quick payment form would help, I think.) > Note: The quick payment form on the live page is great. Could we > add a line for adding tax where it's applicable or change the > description on the handling line to read 5% on the order total plus > tax - 7 1/4%(always good to remind people how much it is) on > applicable items? Maybe. I think PayPal has one other shipping per item field which we might be able to use for this, but I'm not counting on it. The real solution for now is probably to have people add the items to their own pages, calculate the total there, and then we can check their work and send a group money request at the end, to make sure everything is okay... > I'm assuming that the 5% is figured pre tax, is that correct? I've been calculating the 5% POST tax because Leigh will be paying tax on the original cost of the item, not the cost plus 5 percent, but I'm not sure if the tax people could end up complaining about that(?) > I have a thought/question re the pending items, but this note is > getting awfully long, so I'll save it for another time. Fire away... Thanks, -jeb -- Jeb Bateman... http://jeb.ocha.net
