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Can PayPals 2% charge be automatically added to a product cost

  1. pwenn
    Member

    PayPal has raised its charge to 2% while credit cards are charging 1.5%. My client wants to be able to let his client choose and then have this charge added to the final payment.

    Does PayPal do this or is there a way to have this automatically added . All the forms are connected with the PayPal add-on and so far its been working great but I now need this variable?

    Can anyone please advise.

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday July 18, 2012 | Permalink
  2. David Peralty

    You could create a product that is of the type calculation. This product will just be the Paypal fee.

    Your calculation should look something like the following:
    ({Item (Price):1.2} * {Item (Quantity):1.3}) * 0.02

    I made this field only show when Paypal was the selected payment type through conditional logic.

    Let me know if this helps.

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday July 18, 2012 | Permalink
  3. pwenn
    Member

    Hi David,

    This is great. Thank you. Im not great with the technical so not really sure on how to set this up but really happy that there is a solution.

    Regards

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday July 18, 2012 | Permalink
  4. @David:
    What field did you use for the calculation (({Item (Price):1.2} * {Item (Quantity):1.3}) * 0.02)?
    How did you set up the conditional logic, so it only showed the fee when PayPal is selected? What other types of payment do you have?

    Posted 12 years ago on Sunday August 12, 2012 | Permalink
  5. Ah, calculation. Well, first question has been answered :)

    Posted 12 years ago on Sunday August 12, 2012 | Permalink