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specify how PayPal's fee cap works
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chadwhitacre committed Feb 26, 2016
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1. Upload the `*.paypal.csv` file from step 1 and write a note with subject
"Gratipay Payout" and body "Here you go! Thanks for using Gratipay! :D - chad"
1. Submit the MassPay and double check the amount and the fee against the `stdout`
from step 1 (not to be confused with the output files from step 1!).
1. If the amounts don't match then we probably have a bad `paypal_fee_cap` for one
of the users. Manually bisect the input file from step 1, running through steps
2 through 4 with half the file at a time until you discover the culprit. Manually
update `paypal_fee_cap` for the culprit in the participants table, then start all
over from step 1.
from step 1 (not to be confused with the output files from step 1!). PayPal
caps the fee at $1 for U.S. accounts and $20 for non-U.S. accounts.
Unfortunately, the only way to determine the fee cap for a given account
(that we've discovered) is to try uploading the CSV MassPay file and see if
our guess matches what PayPal in fact computes.
1. If the amounts don't match then we have a bad `paypal_fee_cap` for one of the
users. Manually bisect the input file from step 1, running through steps 2
through 4 with half the file at a time until you discover the culprit.
Manually update `paypal_fee_cap` for the culprit in the participants table,
then start all over from step 1.
1. When everything checks out, pull the trigger on the MassPay.
1. Click the link, "View details of this Mass Payment."
1. Wait a few minutes, then refresh the page. You should see "N claimed" or
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