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| | | Author: | runner.caller  | | Posted: | May 2, 2024 14:48 | | Subject: | Re: Charging others for your PayPal fee | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Amazingly writes:
| | Can a store in the USA charge other stores in the USA for their PayPal fee?
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I think using that verbiage is against paypal's TOS.
I also think someone else once mentioned that it's against paypal's TOS
to have a cheaper payment option than paypal if multiple options are available
at checkout. So if paypal is offered as a payment option, it can't be a higher
price than like a check or cash order. This was probably more relevant in the
days before onsite payments were required.
One thing I've questioned though is if it's just the verbiage.
So, in theory, a store could charge a 3.49% fee + 0.49 extra and call it an "admin
fee", "service fee", or "general fee", and be safe as long
as they didn't call it a "paypal fee".
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| | | | | Author: | Amazingly | | Posted: | May 2, 2024 14:52 | | Subject: | Re: Charging others for your PayPal fee | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, runner.caller writes:
| | In Selling, Amazingly writes:
| | Can a store in the USA charge other stores in the USA for their PayPal fee?
Thanks
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I think using that verbiage is against paypal's TOS.
I also think someone else once mentioned that it's against paypal's TOS
to have a cheaper payment option than paypal if multiple options are available
at checkout. So if paypal is offered as a payment option, it can't be a higher
price than like a check or cash order. This was probably more relevant in the
days before onsite payments were required.
One thing I've questioned though is if it's just the verbiage.
So, in theory, a store could charge a 3.49% fee + 0.49 extra and call it an "admin
fee", "service fee", or "general fee", and be safe as long
as they didn't call it a "paypal fee".
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It says in their terms that 3.5% is added for all electronic payments and it
was added to the order. Just wanted to make sure before I cause problems.
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| | | | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | May 2, 2024 15:59 | | Subject: | Re: Charging others for your PayPal fee | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Amazingly writes:
| | It says in their terms that 3.5% is added for all electronic payments and it
was added to the order. Just wanted to make sure before I cause problems.
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Added to the order at the time you placed it or added to the order at the time
of invoicing?
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| | | | | Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | May 3, 2024 13:23 | | Subject: | Re: Charging others for your PayPal fee | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, runner.caller writes:
| | In Selling, Amazingly writes:
| | Can a store in the USA charge other stores in the USA for their PayPal fee?
Thanks
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I think using that verbiage is against paypal's TOS.
I also think someone else once mentioned that it's against paypal's TOS
to have a cheaper payment option than paypal if multiple options are available
at checkout. So if paypal is offered as a payment option, it can't be a higher
price than like a check or cash order. This was probably more relevant in the
days before onsite payments were required.
One thing I've questioned though is if it's just the verbiage.
So, in theory, a store could charge a 3.49% fee + 0.49 extra and call it an "admin
fee", "service fee", or "general fee", and be safe as long
as they didn't call it a "paypal fee".
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Yes although like you say I think the principal from Paypal's perspective
is that you cannot charge your paypal customers different to any other payment
method so even if you called it an Admin fee that fee would need to apply to
all customers and not just your Paypal customers else it would be deemed as a
paypal specific admin fee. I guess you could get around this by making your store
only accept paypal as a payment method because then the admin fee applies to
all your customers equally!
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