add fee for using paypal payment option

[stevesh]

It isn't illegal, it's a violation of the agreement you signed onto with Paypal. From their User Agreement:

4.6 No Surcharges. You agree that you will not impose a surcharge or any other fee for accepting PayPal as a payment method. You may charge a handling fee in connection with the sale of goods or services, as long as the handling fee does not operate as a surcharge and is not higher than the handling fee you charge for non-PayPal transactions.

Pretty plain.

[spid3r1987]

so according to this, you can add a "Handling charge" of upto 3.4% of order & then all you are doing is absorbing the cost of 0.35 euro

[Cylon]

Yes, I would like to add "Handling charge" for 3,4% but I don´t know where to add this fee which should be only for PayPal handling charge. Ithink it is only possible to add handling fee for Zone but not for Payment methods .

[spid3r1987]

i think that is correct, you can add a handling fee for zones. im not sure you can add one for payment methods
if by adding a fee for a payment method, i think this would be classed as the same as charging for using this payment method.....

[Merlinpa1969]

so according to this, you can add a "Handling charge" of upto 3.4% of order & then all you are doing is absorbing the cost of 0.35 euro

this would need to be done on the order total pages,
since you would have to add the same handeling fee to every order regardless of the payment method

You may charge a handling fee in connection with the sale of goods or services, as long as the handling fee does not operate as a surcharge and is not higher than the handling fee you charge for non-PayPal transactions

[spid3r1987]

this would need to be done on the order total pages,
since you would have to add the same handeling fee to every order regardless of the payment method

i thought so, if you did work out a way to add a handling charge for a specific type of payment, this would possibly be in breach of paypal TOC'S

[Cylon]

Yes I understand. But I would rather leave it, I don´t think it is fair to put handling fee for everything the same.

Thank you all for helping me guys !