[Makerspace-keymembers] We have Square!

[Emily Knox]

Yay on Square and I'm also fine with access you described.

Buying the plugin is also fine with me.


On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Gergana Slavova <
gergana.s.slavova at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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