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Background:  I have a site for a non-profit group that collects funds from the members for things like event registrations that we get in bulk ( "I need 30 registrations for the convention for my group"). We aren't selling the items, only gathering the funds to make a bulk payment.    I use the tax field as an easy way to add the PayPal Fee (% of sale  charge) for a credit card payment.  No problem when doing a single payment item as the tax field is part of the button setup.   I'm when trying to set up a button for 2 or 3 installment payments, I don't see a way to add any tax to that.   Do I need to add the "tax" as part of the cost instead of letting it add spaarately as in the single payment button?   thanks, Bruce C. ... View more

I just installed the Excel add on from PayPal, but all it seems to do is create a fill in invoice that interacts with PayPal.   Is there a way to take the data I have in the variouse fields of Excel and use that to fill in the form?   Or how about importing the data I have in the spreadsheet into the PayPal Address book?  Seems tha tthe only way I can get customer info in is to save it as a customer when I create an invoice (?).   For example:   The form has a field called "Recipients Email" - I can type in a name or select one from a drop down list, how do I get the emails into the list other than using a seperate excel sheet as the help file shows? Can't I link that input field to my existing database field?   Also, when I tried to type in anything else that would identify the person ( like "My Name" 1234567  @   anysite.com) it tells me the email address is invalid and will only let me put in the email address part. I tried entering it in several ways, but no luck. Very hard to identify someone just through a non-descript email address....   Another thing I noticed... the Excel Invoice doesn't allow for a line item discount like the PayPal site does... it only allows for a total order discount... any way around this?   Thanks, Bruce C. ... View more