[committee] Membership 2008

[Scott Young]

I have now created paypal-2008 at ucc.asn.au, which should be okay to
send any payments to this year.

I'll have a look at the information on the website later and see if it
needs to be updated or not.

Scott

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Scott Young <scott at sjy.id.au> wrote:
>> We probably need a new PayPal account (the current one being used is
>> paypal-2007 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au).
>
> Okay. What's the rationale behind using a different PayPal account for
> each year, not just paypal at ucc?
>
>> 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.)
>
> I suppose if we're still going to be stuck with the outdated account
> name, it's not worth doing, though.
>
>> A solution that doesn't require PayPal would be ideal
>
> Agreed.. kind of. Although I recognize that PayPal are not the nicest
> company to deal with (I've had my fair share of problems with them in
> the past), there's no other method as ubiquitous as PayPal to buy
> stuff online if you don't have a credit card using a bank transaction.
> (PayPal can direct-debit your bank account). Maybe if we were able to
> take bank transfers directly somehow?
>
> 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.
>
>> use the University's credit card interface but that needs a business unit
>> and so on, so would need close cooperation with the Guild.
>
> This sounds like the way to go as far as credit card payments are
> concerned, although I don't know anything about the pros and cons of
> 'close cooperation with the Guild'.
>
>> There's also a separate discussion here on whether allowing large-scale
>> non-cash transactions with dispense is a good idea; arguably it's getting
>> a little bit out of hand.
>
> I don't think so, but perhaps this is something better put on the
> ucc at ucc list. (In fact, it might be worth copying this whole email to
> ucc at ucc, for the benefit of those who aren't subscribed to
> committee at .)
>
> --
> Scott Young (splintax)
> 2008 UCC Treasurer
>