[committee] Membership 2008

[James Andrewartha]

On Mon, 19 May 2008, Scott Young wrote:

> Okay. What's the rationale behind using a different PayPal account for
> each year, not just paypal at ucc?

Namespace issues - if we fuck up paypal at ucc it's gone for good, 
paypal-year can be thrown away.

> > It might just be easier to create <paypal-2008 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
> > and make sure not to mark us as a non-profit organisation.
> 
> Looks like it. Although didn't you say there was another option? Isn't
> it worth at least chasing them up with an email (I thought they also
> asked just for an explanation of what exactly it is that we do, should
> it be difficult for us to provide the other three things they wanted.)

paymate.com.au seemed pretty good from my brief look. They were set up by 
eBay Australia and sold off when eBay International bought PayPal, so 
they're designed for what UCC wants to do.

> Is there anything /requiring/ us to use Guild banking? As far as I can
> tell, the main advantage of using a Guild bank account is that there
> are no fees -- but the complete lack of netbanking is a bit crap.
> Maybe we could open a supplementary account with Westpac -- they might
> have cheap accounts for non-profits, and even if they don't, interest
> $1000 or so in the account for a year will make more than enough to
> cover the fees. We often have a lot more than that much money, too, so
> it would more than likely generate us a hundred dollars or so every
> year.

Changing signatories on a real account is a PITA especially if the 
previous ones aren't available for whatever reason, whereas the guild will 
change them just by filing a form after the AGM.

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