Ambassadors,
The PayPal issue I could see posing a problem for other countries, but
as Treasurer for NA, the idea of paying in advance does not work in NA.
For example we pay for flight and room in advance, then the individual
that does not show up to the event or the room incurs more charges than
authorized
it exceeds the approved budget amount. This has happened in NA, so in
order to protect the organization and only with case by case situations
and voted on by NA Ambassadors
do we pay in advance. PayPal has worked just fine in NA.
For those individuals that have attended events that we pay for (Fedora
pays) they have some basic requirements that must be met before
receiving reimbursements and is listed
on event planning/participation guides. There have been some problems in
the past getting reimbursed but hopefully I have fixed that process. I
usually get reimbursements to individuals
who complete the basic requirements within a few days of the Trac
ticket/Pagure reimbursement request.
As for the problems with how reimbursements get handled that is why we
have the Treasurer, Logistics, and a story teller to fix the loop holes.
If you remember Decause and the council
set that up. So far since I hold both Treasurer and Storyteller, things
have run smoothly. I cant answer for other regions on how they conduct
business, but my suggestion is that each
region take a close look on how you do conduct business.
v/r
Andrew
Ambassador/Mentor
FAmNA Treasurer/Storyteller
On 12/5/2016 6:35 PM, Giannis Konstantinidis wrote:
Hey Neville,
On December 5, 2016 at 11:39 PM "Neville A. Cross"
<yn1v(a)taygon.com> wrote:
Hello,
I added the info for my country on the table and at the bottom of the
page a link to a wiki page where I have been collecting info regarding
paypal in LATAM. That is noy up to date, but unfortunately there has
been lack of cooperation to fill a page that it is more or less what
this page is alla bout.
Thanks very much for your input.
There has been problems in the past about reimbursements in LATAM.
Muchof those problems came from the fact that were not properly
confirmed
that will be possible to be reimbursed. During the meeting it was
not discussed if the person had a paypal account and if that worked in
his or her country. Then we had run into problems with filling all the
information on trac.
We made a video recording trying to cover all the options so
people can
have latest information. Still we got some minor issues, like the
person
in charge of reimbursement is not owner of the ticket, so the comments
on ticket do not reach to the person that actually can operate on
this.
Do such problems persist?
Paypal do not work in every country, but it has helped a lot. I
thinkthat it will be difficult to find a tool that works in every
single
country. Probably we should spread into others tools. One thing that
works almost everywhere is a person-to-person transfer like western
union. But that meand that somebody withdraw cash and go to the office
of that person-to-person transfer service to send the money. That is a
lot of work.
I did some quick research. It seems we are able to send money using
Western Union's online platform, too. They accept credit cards and
they operate in more than 200 countries across the globe. I think we
have just found one strong candidate. The only significant downside I
see is they have relatively higher fees compared to other platforms.
All: By the way, just to clarify, we are looking for a secondary
platform/solution, to act as an alternative. We are not aiming to stop
Paypal reimbursements.
Thank you all, keep the feedback coming!
-Giannis
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