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I’ll leave the welcome mat out. I’d love a visit. (Fun fact- I think my clearance is up for renewal soon).

On a more serious note, same team. lol. And thanks for making it easy to contribute to supporting our addiction to Fjriders.com.
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Speaking of PayPal. Although convenient, they do take money away, and they are not at all friendly to the 2nd amendment. Would like to see a Zelle, or other option besides PayPal which gets all the funds to the desired destination, besides snail mail.
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Although not perfect, the current configuration (woo-commerce with paypal integration) works well and is fairly hands off. It provides an end to end payment process within the store.

I found a Zelle plugin, but all that does is offer a way to display zelle info for the user to pay via zelle outside of the store - so it would create 2 separate places to track and reconcile funds that would be intermingled with my personal household finances. One of the benefits (to me on the backend) with Paypal is it lets me keep funds completely separate from my personal finances without having another savings / checking account at a brick & mortor bank.

For event planning - like EOM - having funds coming in via various channels (storefront /w Paypal, zelle to bank account,etc.) would add a layer of auditing / effort that I don't have time for. That's why the fee paypal does take is reasonable - other solutions exist, but do not offer the ability to reconcile event tickets / headcount in one single place (exported excell spreadsheet).

Zelle is a good service - My wife uses is for collecting money when she does riding lessons at the barn and for paying her board. Her clients can pay and it give them an electronic record of the payment. We took the second checking account we had and use it strictly for her "horse shit" as I call it. Keeps her stuff separate from the household main account.

I will look at setting something up like that the next time I do a fund raiser post. I just am leary about having funds (potenitally) flowing into an account and intermingling with our household funds and it getting missed / not separated out.

Thanks for the suggestion, I do appreciate it.

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Done - thanks for all that you do and have done, especially for the event support you have provided to me in the past.

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Done - I'm on here damned near every day so the least I can do is help fund it.
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BkerChuck wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 6:20 pm Done - I'm on here damned near every day so the least I can do is help fund it.
Damn you. The guilt is killing me.
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wheatonFJR wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 6:23 pm
BkerChuck wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 6:20 pm Done - I'm on here damned near every day so the least I can do is help fund it.
Damn you. The guilt is killing me.
Is that guilt from being cheap or from near daily threadshitting? Just curious.......
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BkerChuck wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 7:45 pm
wheatonFJR wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 6:23 pm
BkerChuck wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 6:20 pm Done - I'm on here damned near every day so the least I can do is help fund it.
Damn you. The guilt is killing me.
Is that guilt from being cheap or from near daily threadshitting? Just curious.......
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BkerChuck wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 7:45 pm
wheatonFJR wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 6:23 pm
BkerChuck wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 6:20 pm Done - I'm on here damned near every day so the least I can do is help fund it.
Damn you. The guilt is killing me.
Is that guilt from being cheap or from near daily threadshitting? Just curious.......
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But if you throw $10 in the coffer for each insult I will consider your paltry efforts worth it.

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So glad to help out. Thanks for all you do.
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Update.

Holy Smokes. I don't know what to say beyond a capitol "Thank You".

Current donation total towards the forum operation costs is $760, minus $37.98 in paypal fees for a net of $722.02. That covers this years hosting and domain renews and then sum.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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We will hold you to the committment to bring this up next year, same time, same channel.
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Done and thank you.
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Late to the party, but done!
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Not sure how I missed this post. Thanks Wayne!
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Also late to the party but D-U-N done!
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Money sent.

I volunteered to run a boosters club, keeping personal and business money separate was a big deal to me. The two shall not cross was how I did it. I wasn't a fan of the cost but in the long run keeping them separate is the wisest way to go. Thank you for everything you do!!
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Update.

Words do not accurately express my appreciation for the support here. Thank You to everyone for the generous donations. I've screened and updated profiles with the "Contributor" special rank for everyone who has donated during 2024 and 2025.

Thank you for ensuring we can keep the lights on here!!

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I stumbled across this post. I bet there are many inmates that don't know about this post so I suggest creating a conspicuous link on the forum so nobody feels left out!
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Thank you, I did not make the post global; but I did add it to the banner announcement under the calendar order link.

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fontanaman wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 1:39 am I stumbled across this post. I bet there are many inmates that don't know about this post so I suggest creating a conspicuous link on the forum so nobody feels left out!
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