How do you charge your customers for paying with paypal?

[Bluechip2006]

My business accepts paypal via online payments only.  My customers visit my website and click the "pay here" link to pay their invoices.  I then incur fees for this.  Is there a way to charge my customers a fee once they log in?  I don't want to add the fee to their invoice prior to them paying  because only some customers use paypal and only some use it every month.  So is there a way to have Paypal charge them the fee instead of me during the time of payment?  Thank!

[sharpiemarker]

@Bluechip2006 

> Is there a way to charge my customers a fee once they log in? So is there a way to have Paypal charge them the fee instead of me during the time of payment?

No to both questions. Also PayPal in fact doesn’t permit surcharging out right, see “No surcharges” section via the link. You’ll have to build the 5% or so expense into the pricing or charge a handling fee across all payment methods as per user agreement. Some customers don’t like to see surcharges anyway. To pay with PayPal is free for buyers. Sellers are the ones paying for the services tools used to accept payment and payment processing.

And the expense might be eligible to be written off on your income taxes. Consult a tax advisor about that.