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SRobinson

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unfortunatly paying fees is part of the cost of doing business.

 

charging a fee to use any type of payment is against the terms of service for most things

paypal, mc discover, visa, amex

 

you need to build this fee structure into your pricing to begin with, not penalize your customers for trying to pay you.....

 

DO you take checks?

charge a fee for taking cc?

 

how are people supposed to pay and get the price thats on the screen?

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Fees for payment processing is not a penalty but a reflection of the cost involved in undertaking work on the vendor's behalf that they would otherwise have to do themselves. In that sense, it is a sub-contract labour payment. Why should anyone work for us for nothing?

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How much are they charging you? It's only about 2 or 3 % isn't it?

 

3.4% is the highest.

 

Have a search on the forums- this has been discussed lots before, but to summarise:

 

Incorportate the fees into your prices and offer incentives for customers to use other gateways and payment methods :)

 

Ben

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3.4% is the highest.

 

That's about what I thought. It's a bit less where I am (2.4% max).

 

@ SRobinson - Although nobody likes fees, it's just one of the things that come with running a business. At least Paypal fees are as a direct result of a sale. No sale, no fee. Not many other business fees are like that. If your pricing is so low that it's a problem, you may need to re-evaluate your selling prices.

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  • 1 month later...
OK everyone has given there opinion but is there an answer to the question regardless if you agree with it or not? Is there anyway to make WHMCS account for those fees or not?

As far as I know NO there is no way to force a client to pay the paypal fees.

 

and Since this is against paypals TOS I dont see the devs rushing out to make this happen and put their own accounts at risk.....

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The only way to really do this is to take what you plan to charge for hosting and find out what the paypal fees would be for it and tack that onto the price and add about 1 cent extra for the addition fee, and by doing so there is no way for them to tell if you are charging for the fee, it simple seems that it is the actual price you are charging and you can find that in court if needed as well.

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