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    I offer clients two ways to pay:

    1. Mail check, money order
    2. Pay online by credit card (w/ additional 2.9% + $0.30 processing fee)

    Meaning, I pass the fee on to client as a convenience fee for paying online. When I send a client an invoice and they choose to pay using Paypal, I want the invoiceing system to automatically calculate and add the fee. This would be great if we could add rules/fee amounts (+ or -) manually to payment types.

    As it stands now, I have to eat a $77.00 Paypal fee on a $2500+ payment. For now, I have programmed the "Paypal" payment button to send an e-mail requesting an online invoice and then I manually send a Paypal invoice, which let's me add the fee.

    EXAMPLE #1: One of my business partners will subtract 10% if the invoice is paid by a specific date, it would be great if the system could do the match by subtracting this amount.

    EXAMPLE #2: If a client pays late, a fee of $25.00 may be added to reactivate account, it would be great if the system could do the match by adding the fee if it's not marked "PAID" by the specified date.

    Great script, by the way...
    • CommentAuthorjustin
    • CommentTimeAug 5th 2008
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    Thanks Mistress Zhivago,

    all of these are good suggestions - thanks
    - i've added them into the 'dreamtime' roadmap
    -- refer: http://simpleinvoices.org/roadmap/dreamtime

    re paypal
    - i've been thinking about doing a real paypal integration into Simple Invoices - jsut havent got around to it yet
    - if you really want it - vote for it at : http://simpleinvoices.org/roadmap/vote

    all of the suggestions are do-able and i will take them into account for future development work

    Cheers

    Justin
    • CommentAuthorsgrayban
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2008
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    I just created a new Tax item called PP Fees which does the same thing.
    • CommentAuthorjustin
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2008
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    thanks scott

    good suggestion

    question - say if you have a normal vat/gst (say 10%), do you add the paypal 'tax' 2.9% to that to make it 12.9% ?

    only issue is if you want to define the tax amount as being separte from the paypal amount

    Cheers

    Justin