[Makerspace-keymembers] We have Square!

[Gergana Slavova]

That's amazing!  Thanks, Erich, for working on this for a long time :)

I'm ok with limiting access to the bank #s just to the finance folks.

~Gergana


On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Erich Heine <sophacles at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing to inform you that we finally have a square account and square
> card reader, and they work and everything!
>
> Yesterday the reader arrived and I immediately ran some test transactions.
> Tomorrow morning they will post to the IMC bank account, and Durl will see
> how it works. After that we can start using them.
>
> The next steps are to teach people how to use the square register. Anyone
> with a smart phone or tablet that runs iOS or Android can run the square
> register app, and I'll order some more readers for us, so we can just use
> them.  The app is tied in with the Square servers, so nothing is stored on
> your phone other than the app, and all transactions take place in the cloud
> - so it is a secure system.
>
> There is one thing I presume everyone will be OK with, but need to double
> check:
>
> Since the IMC financial information and bank accounts are tied to our
> Square Account, I'd like to limit access to that stuff to the Finance
> subcomittee, and provide what's called "staff access" to the rest. Staff access
> allows everyone to charge and refund people, but doesn't allow staff to
> change banking info nor change the "items for sale" (no big deal, because
> we can enter the amount manually anyway).
>
> Let me know what you all think about this plan.
>
> The other thing is the Stripe account. This is also moving forward,
> however setting that up at the same time as Square was getting a bit
> confusing with the IMC, so I've postponed it temporarily until the Square
> system is fully in place (thats now...). There are two options to make it
> live: the slow option is letting me take my time and safely code up
> something that will work for recurring payments, but first I have to learn
> about wordpress. I really don't like this option, but its the only "free"
> way to do recurring payments on wordpress right now. The other option is to
> purchase a plugin for worpress. The plugin is cheap ($50is) and I have no
> problem donating it, but want to double check that we are OK with that
> moving forward, as upgrades to it may cost money in the future. The nice
> thing about buying the plugin is I can have it set up fast - the only delay
> will be waiting for the account verification process to go through the IMC.
>
> Regards,
> Erich
>
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