14 Apr
2025
14 Apr
'25
8:47 a.m.
The Montpelier, VT dance recently invested in a Zettle
<https://www.zettle.com/gb> terminal, and it's been awesome. It's a small
device about the size of a phone that accepts Venmo payments and credit
card payments and puts them directly into our PayPal account. The cool
thing is that we can take Venmo payments without having a Venmo
account ourselves! You can set up different sales items — we have a kid
price, standard price, and dance supporter price, but you could also do a
"donation" item for separating that out from admission. And the machine
spits out an itemized paper ticket with sales totals at the end of the
evening, which is so useful for accounting and paying the band.
Dana
On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM Robin Hale via Organizers <
organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
This isn’t answering your question RE Venmo, since
last we tried Venmo
didn’t work well for our needs. Our partner organization has a Square
account set up, which allows for different QR codes (like one for contra
admission, one for general donations) with separate tags and deposited in
the bank account together. The QR code goes to a page on our website, where
folks can use Apple Pay, Google pay (maybe something else). Without one of
those pay ment systems set up it can be annoying for the end user to type
in credit card info (especially compared to Venmo), but in general it works
well for dancers of diverse generations and technical ability.
I’m not sure if it allows for you to set the cost - we have a sliding
scale.
Robin
Oly Contra
Olympia, WA
On Apr 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM -0700, Jeff Kaufman via Organizers <
organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net>gt;, wrote:
We don't have a great system: we just do it by timing. Most of the time
is not during one of our events, so it's probably pretty close to right.
Jeff
On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM Don Veino via Organizers <
organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
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Dana Dwinell-Yardley
pronouns: she/her/hers
802-505-6639
Montpelier, Vermont
Hi,
We've been trying to figure out how to tie admission payments via Venmo
to specific events. I'm not the account user so I'm only hearing this
second hand or through web search, but we can create QR codes in Venmo with
information encoded in them, e.g.:
https://www.paypal.com/qrcodes/venmocs/be7ee836-3a9a-44c7-94e3-d6a1ae93b6b9…
But I'm told when they are scanned, folks still need to key in the amount
(despite it being encoded in the URL). And when payment comes through,
there is no tie to a unique code that makes for easy attribution to a
specific event.
Are there any tricks others have found for doing this? It would be great
if we can separate generic donations to our organization from event
admission payments so we can properly credit them. This is something easily
done in PayPal but folks don't seem to have the patience to use that tool
and have asked for Venmo availability.
Thanks in advance,
Don
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