HRWiki talk:Ledger

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Contents 1 Compensating for PayPal fees 2 New Ledger 3 Balanced the books... 4 TBC's Donation 5 Current balance 6 $9.41 7 Table Background 8 Userpage links? 9 Name > Username 10 Latest Donation

Compensating for PayPal fees

I've made an executive decision to start deducting PayPal surcharges from transactions. I've been floating the wiki cents on the dollar from my own pocket in order to keep those surcharges transparent, but I just started thinking about the surcharges that will acrue on $1,000 worth of donations. I'm not sure I want to float the wiki that much. :) — Joey (talk·edits) 12:00, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

Okay, I just made the changes. I let everything slide prior to March 1, 2005, but from now on each donation posted on the ledger will reflect the 2.7% plus US$0.30 surcharge from PayPal. In case anyone is paying extremely close attention, there was one transaction that I had mistakenly dated March 8, 2005 that should've been dated March 7, 2005. I moved it and recalculated the running balance for each of those rows. — Joey (talk·edits) 12:24, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

New Ledger

The old ledger was getting a bit unweildy, so I'm now using Excel to manage things. I'm using the excellent CSV to wiki table converter (I've installed a tweaked ledger converter on our server) to transfer my spreadsheet data to the wiki. I've also started attributing names to donations again. As this list starts to get too long, I'll probably archive it off onto other pages by year or by quarter. — Joey (talk·edits) 11:35, 9 Mar 2005 (MST)

Balanced the books...

I sat down today to balance my PayPal account and started noticing something funny. I kept coming up owing the wiki around $50, so I dug into the numbers a little deeper and made some updates.

I did find a few duped transactions on this ledger. When people pay with eChecks, PayPal puts the transaction on two lines — one for when the check arrives and again when the check clears — and in some cases those have been more than a week apart. I wasn't paying attention and had accidentally recorded a few of those as two separate donations.

I've also gone back through some of the earlier transactions and changed the amount to reflect PayPal fees. At one point I had decided to cover those fees myself, but I decided I don't want anything fudged on this ledger. Since I had already said I would eat those fees, I threw $12 back into the coffers to compensate.

Let me know if there are any questions. — Joey (talk·edits) 06:06, 2 Aug 2005 (UTC)

TBC's Donation

Do you plan on added The Brothers' Chaps $250 donation to this ledger, JoeyDay? Or are you not going to record that transation? - Joshua 21:44, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm still deciding. I'd rather not answer this here right now. I need to figure out if I can even deposit the check first. :) — Joey (talk·edits) 22:47, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

I see that you added it. (Do you still get to keep the check with the li'l SB and HR on it?) Anyway, it seems you forgot to link to Matt Chapman. (Unless that's intentional.) Just pointing that out... - Joshua 01:28, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

No, I don't get to keep the check. Yes, the non-linking was intentional. — Joey (talk·edits) 02:03, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Current balance

Out of date with the table. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 08:19, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Fixed. Thanks. -- Tom 21:03, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

$9.41

I've noticed many donations ammount to $9.41, which is (my guess) $10.00 over PayPal, after their fees. Which got me thinking, what exactly would be the total USD donation that would need to be sent over PayPal to equal a $10.00 net donation result? (And perhaps also the gross ammount for a net of $20 or $25 and $50 increments). I think it'd be a useful bit of info for the page, but my calculating abilities are somewhat limited to figure the required ammount out. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 09:40, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

I figured this out for $20 a couple of months ago, and applying the formula I worked out right afterward to simplify the calculation for any future donations gave me this: It would be $10.61. $20 is $20.91, $25 is $26.06, and $50 is $51.80. The basic formula to figure it out is 0.971x = y + .3 where x is what you give to PayPal and y is what's left after the fees. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 10:33, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Shouldn't it be ? Trey56 10:45, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, I wouldn't go that far. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 10:55, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

So, solving for x, we get . Plug in the amount you want to appear in the ledger as y and then do the arithmetic. — It's dot com 05:37, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Table Background

Can somebody give the table a white background? My monobook puts all HRWiki pages in grey, and it looks weird now that the table's transparent. - Super Sam 05:16, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Userpage links?

Hi, if we want to link our donation to our username, can we just go ahead and insert the link? I'm a bit wary about just jumping straight in, in case there's policies in place to prevent 'donation usurping' or other such unseemly activity. --Lor 11:10, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Hm, well, I just found the discussion on the 'Thank You' page for donators. I've put my request up there. --Lor 11:10, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Name > Username

I would no longer like my name tied to this wiki, and would like it to be changed to username only. Thanks. -Jesty_Talk

Latest Donation

Doesn't look like my donation has gone through yet, but when it does, could it please be displayed as my name (Sam Horn) and linked to my Fanstuff userpage? (The donation will go through as from "Vicki Horn".) - Super Sam 02:22, 24 June 2007 (UTC)