Your troop can now accept payments from your troop members on-line using PayPal™.

We'll tell you all about it, but first we'd like to welcome our latest subscribers:

• Troop 4 of Upper Saint Clair, Pennsylvania
• Troop 6 of Charles Town, West Virginia
• Troop 11 of Hattiesburg, Mississippi
• Troop 12 of Framingham, Massachusetts
• Troop 55 of Bloomfield, New York
• Troop 64 of Westerville, Ohio
• Troop 93 of Lockwood, Montana
• Troop 191 of Lake Dallas, Texas
• Troop 357 of Raleigh, North Carolina
• Troop 408 of Shawnee, Oklahoma
• Troop 431 of Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Troop 506 of Wichita, Kansas
• Troop 577 of Los Gatos, California
• Troop 707 of Fort WOrth, Texas
• Troop 727 of El Paso, Texas
• Troop 9871 of Mounds View, Minnesota

If you have any questions, suggestions or feedback about TroopWebHost, please contact us at info@TroopWebHost.com.

When you do, please mention your troop number and city in your message so we'll know exactly who you are.

Make On-Line Payments

Scouts and parents can now add to their troop account balances on-line with our new PayPal™ interface.

Before they can use this feature, you will need to configure your site to accept payments to your troop's PayPal account (see below).

But once you've finished the configuration process, they will see a new item on their My Stuff menu: On-Line Payments.

This will allow them to initiate a payment to the troop using the screen shown above, which they will complete by going to the PayPal web site.  They do not have to have a PayPal account to use this feature.

Once the payment is successful, the system will automatically create a deposit transaction that credits the member's account and the troop account for the amount of the payment, minus the standard PayPal transaction fees.  (NOTE: TroopWebHost does not receive any portion of these fees;  TroopWebHost has no direct involvement with the actual payment process.)

Some Assembly Required

Of course, this doesn't all just happen by magic.  There are a few steps you'll need to do before your troop can use this feature.  There is a new five page section of our User Guide which describes the entire configuration process in detail.

The following is an excerpt from the User Guide, which we strongly encourage you to read completely before you get started....

To set up your troop to accept PayPal™ payments, you will need to:

1. Set up a merchant account at PayPal, if your troop does not already have one.
2. Log on to your troop's account at the PayPal website.  From there you will need to:
   • Find and copy your Merchant Account ID.
   • Find the current balance of your PayPal™ account.
   • Set the IPN Listener URL to point to TroopWebHost.
3. Create a Troop Account for your troop's PayPal™ account and set the starting balance.
4. If desired, create a Transaction Type specifically for PayPal™ deposits.
5. Fill out the PayPal Configuration form.
6. Assign the Make On-Line Payment task to all User Roles

Once you finish this last step, your troop members will see the On-Line Payments option appear on their My Stuff menu, and you'll be all set.

Thank you for your support!

John Corning
TroopWebHost