Processing Payments with transaction fees (like credit card processing, or PayPal)
Buddha Buck
blaisepascal at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 07:52:09 EST 2013
I receive payments for invoices via PayPal. PayPal takes a
transaction fee when this happens.
My current procedure (if Bob buys $20 of services) is as follows:
1. Create an invoice to Bob for $20 of services.
2. Wait for Bob to pay $20 via PayPal
3. Use "Process payment" to process the payment. This creates a
transaction in my PayPal account for $20.
4a. Add a "Transaction Fees" transaction to the PayPal account of
"credit PayPal $0.88 debit Expense:Bank Fees $0.88"; OR
4b. Manually edit the splits for this transaction so that instead of
"debit PayPal $20 credit A/R $20" it becomes "debit PayPal $19.12
debit Expense:Bank Fees $0.88 credit A/R $20.
I like the 4b approach because it more closely resembles what I see on
my statements from PayPal, and because it clearly ties the transaction
fee to the payment in the register.
But I don't like doing it. Is there a better way? Is there a way to
get the "Process Payment" dialog to ask about transaction fees when
processing the payment? Better still, is there a way to enter the
transaction fee formula somewhere so that all payments processed using
the PayPal account automatically get the proper split?
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