HRWiki talk:Ledger

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Revision as of 22:47, 21 November 2005

Compensating for PayPal fees

I've made an executive decision to start deducting PayPal surcharges from transactions. I've been floating the wiki cents on the dollar from my own pocket in order to keep those surcharges transparent, but I just started thinking about the surcharges that will acrue on $1,000 worth of donations. I'm not sure I want to float the wiki that much. :) — Joey (talk·edits) 12:00, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

Okay, I just made the changes. I let everything slide prior to March 1, 2005, but from now on each donation posted on the ledger will reflect the 2.7% plus US$0.30 surcharge from PayPal. In case anyone is paying extremely close attention, there was one transaction that I had mistakenly dated March 8, 2005 that should've been dated March 7, 2005. I moved it and recalculated the running balance for each of those rows. — Joey (talk·edits) 12:24, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

New Ledger

The old ledger was getting a bit unweildy, so I'm now using Excel to manage things. I'm using the excellent CSV to wiki table converter (I've installed a tweaked ledger converter on our server) to transfer my spreadsheet data to the wiki. I've also started attributing names to donations again. As this list starts to get too long, I'll probably archive it off onto other pages by year or by quarter. — Joey (talk·edits) 11:35, 9 Mar 2005 (MST)

Balanced the books...

I sat down today to balance my PayPal account and started noticing something funny. I kept coming up owing the wiki around $50, so I dug into the numbers a little deeper and made some updates.

I did find a few duped transactions on this ledger. When people pay with eChecks, PayPal puts the transaction on two lines — one for when the check arrives and again when the check clears — and in some cases those have been more than a week apart. I wasn't paying attention and had accidentally recorded a few of those as two separate donations.

I've also gone back through some of the earlier transactions and changed the amount to reflect PayPal fees. At one point I had decided to cover those fees myself, but I decided I don't want anything fudged on this ledger. Since I had already said I would eat those fees, I threw $12 back into the coffers to compensate.

Let me know if there are any questions. — Joey (talk·edits) 06:06, 2 Aug 2005 (UTC)

TBC's Donation

Do you plan on added The Brothers' Chaps $250 donation to this ledger, JoeyDay? Or are you not going to record that transation? - Joshua 21:44, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm still deciding. I'd rather not answer this here right now. I need to figure out if I can even deposit the check first. :) — Joey (talk·edits) 22:47, 21 November 2005 (UTC)