Aaron Fracht-Monroe
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Many thanks for your comments and feedback in this thread - it was super helpful for us in analysis and design of the feature.
I'm happy to announce that we're working on adding donations to compensate payment processing fees. This feature will be released later this year.Some design decisions I wanted to speak out explicitly:
1. We decided to proceed with optional donations to compensate credit card processing fees as opposed to surcharges/convenience fee.
Main reasons for this is that there are too many regulations around mandatory charges to compensate fees: it's illegal in some countries/states, there are caps on how much you could charge, etc. To avoid all of this legal complications we decided to suggest members to opt-in to compensate processing fees, as opposed to make them obligatory.
All these transactions will be recorded as donations in WA and can be later used for tax deduction.2. You…
An error occurred while saving the comment Aaron Fracht-Monroe commentedAnother request for this option. While we are OK eating the cc fee for $35 membership cost, we have members that want to pay for events ($700-$3000) by credit card, and cannot afford to subsidize the credit card fees. +
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Another request for this feature coming from a ski club. We have events/trips that cost $$$$, and need the ability to take a deposit in the spring, and get the balance in 1 or 2 payments through the summer or early fall.