fee paypal gateway

[erul]

hi sir, can the standard paypal gateway fee be charged to the user?

[Nelsa]

Nope and I think the best solution is to just calculate fee and add it to the price,as one price...As I know everyone who try to charge fee separately from price experienced negative effect...You have this situation,client see Domain .com USD15/yr and than on checkout page...and 99% of them don't have clue what incl. or excl. VAT/Tax mean and than they see one  additional item on invoice....thus PayPal allow handling fee only ...PayPal fee is forbidden,even it is allowed to put transaction fee there..Now,next question is,if paypal fee can be charged under handling fee than why PayPal don't want you call it what it is...PayPal fee...Probably because they want escape situation where you have listed 3 payment method and only under PayPal there is price + PayPal fee...probably from their view this put PayPal in position where users will rather select credit card payment to escape fee...On other side,handling is handling,no matter which payment method client use...you can't set PayPal handling.... Handling you charge or not,if you charge it than all payment methods are in same position because handling cost is calculated always,not only if user select PayPal as payment method. This is what makes pay pal users confused, in KB on PayPal site,at one place you can find that charging PayPal fee is forbidden but than on other they explain how you can charge handling costs...with transaction fee...even only transaction fee can be charged as handling fee...If walks like...if talks like....than it is....But not here

Example to do it properly

$15 .com

+ $3 (20% VAT)

+ $0.35 Handling Fee

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$18.35

Example how not to do it

$15 Price

+ $3 Tax(VAT 20%)

+ $0.35 If you pay with PayPal(PayPal Fee)