[committee] Membership 2008

[Scott Young]

I have also created paymate-2008 at ucc.asn.au, which is an account at
http://paymate.com.au (see [TRS]'s earlier email).

It needs to be associated with a bank account, so it's associated with my own.

I'll have a play around with the account (once it gets 'verified'),
and see if we can use that instead.

Scott

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Scott Young <scott at sjy.id.au> wrote:
> 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 I suppose if we're still going to be stuck with the outdated account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
>>
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