[Publib] Credit cards/Paypal for fines

[K.G. Schneider]

> I investigated PayPal - in case any of you aren't
> familiar with EBay, buyers/patrons can set up an
> account which can pay multiple vendors with their
> credit card.  This is cheaper for a vendor or library
> than setting up a merchant account to accept credit
> cards.
> 
> So either there is a shortage of information about
> this, or very few libraries accept credit card
> payments.

I'm guessing that the cumbersome/expensive part is the tie-in with the fines
section of the ILS, which PayPal wouldn't alleviate. What I've been hearing
are *implementation/integration* fees, not the cost of doing business by
credit card.

Karen G. Schneider
kgs at bluehighways.com