To answer Mike's question, our ability to accept PayPal for membership and pub sales is tied to the conversion of the AMS system. The delay in that project, has pushed back our ability to offer PayPal.
Choosing to offer PayPal is a different discussion but staff is currently working towards offering it based on discusions and decisions of a previous A&F committee a few years ago. Since then, PayPal has proven to have several additional concerns
and it may be in the organization's best interest to revisit the topic.
I have yet another member miffed and asking me why we don't accept PayPal for membership renewals or store purchases. I thought this subject had come up before, so I did a bit of digging and found that Howard stated that he expected we would be accepting PayPal
as payment at HQ "within a year". That was in early January 2019. Soon it will be 2021.
PayPal business transaction fees are discounted for 503(C) organizations, and appear to be in line with what the major credit card companies are charging. (About 2.2%)
Anybody know where we are with this? Should this be an action for A&F to follow up on?
73;
Mike
W7VO
---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Michel, Howard, WB2ITX (CEO)" <wb2itx@arrl.org>
To: "Ritz, Mike, W7VO, (Dir, NW)" <w7vo@comcast.net>, "Michel, Howard, WB2ITX (CEO)" <wb2itx@arrl.org>
Cc: "Middleton, Diane, W2DLM (CFO)" <dmiddleton@arrl.org>
Date: 01/03/2019 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: ARRL acceptance of PayPal for transactions
Hi Mike,
I expect we will be accepting PayPay within a year.
73, Howard, WB2ITX