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Kit Donnelly

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Paypal Transaction Fee less
September 14, 2011, 03:20:12 pm
We run a quite small, tight-knit not-for-profit.  Recently we have discovered that if PayPal transactions are transacted as a "Gift" or "Payment Owed" transaction types the fees are far less and the payer can choose to cover the fee themselves.

Is there a way we can set up our contributions and memberships in CiviCRM to be paid as one of these payment types in PayPal?

Thank you in advance.

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Re: Paypal Transaction Fee less
September 14, 2011, 05:14:59 pm

1. You should check the paypal docs to see what variable u need to set so that the payment is transacted as: "Gift" or "Payment Owed"

2. Once you know that, you can modify the code here:

CRM/Core/Payment/PayPalImpl.php and ensure it works as expected.

3. Once you get it working, you should use the hook:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC40/CiviCRM+hook+specification#CiviCRMhookspecification-hookcivicrmalterPaymentProcessorParams

to alter what is sent to the payment processor. Depending on your skill level, you might want to just skip step 2

Please share your changes so others can benefit

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Kit Donnelly

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Re: Paypal Transaction Fee less
September 22, 2011, 01:12:11 am
Thanks for your reply Donald but the php knowledge required is both beyond our web designer and I.  Do you know where I can find someone to code this for us?

Thank you again.

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Re: Paypal Transaction Fee less
September 22, 2011, 03:47:39 am
There is a link Professional Services at the top of the page, and there's a professional services forum as well.

@xurizaemon ● www.fuzion.co.nz

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Re: Paypal Transaction Fee less
October 02, 2011, 02:54:11 am
Hi

I have good knowledge about CiviCRM Coding ( including PayPal  ) as well as configuration

you could contact me

civicrmdev "at" gmail "dot" com

Thanks
civicrmdev@gmail.com
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