Display "fees" in Payments>Transactions tab

[dmacquart]

Several customers have expressed their frustration at not being able to clearly see how much they are paying for each transaction when pulling reports from the dashboard. This seems to be a recurring issue especially for finance people. I recommend adding a field called "Fees" to the right of "Amount"

[kyungmin]

Fees are not always useful to everyone in the transactions tab. Since it sounds like this is requested by financial people who want to create reports, I suggest adding this as an extra column in the export file.

@dmacquart do you think this will resolve the issue?

[mjallday]

We used to have a fee field on a transaction in the API but we removed it. The reason being is that if we decided to move to a monthly minimum or a waterfall method of charging we cannot accurately calculate the fee for a transaction until later on.

For example, if you are charged 10c on the first $1,000 worth transactions and then 5c on the second $1,000 worth it may be difficult to compute this until several things happen (e.g. the transaction clears to the SUCCEEDED state). Also, what would happen if you then reversed one of the transactions and the total volume charged went below $1,000? Does the fee for that individual transaction go up?

[dmacquart]

OK, that makes sense. However, would it make sense to "enable/disable per transaction fee" depending on the company?

• Enable per transaction fee (default): this would be for plain vanilla companies and would work in most cases. Transaction reversals would result in an adjustment.
• Disable per transaction fee: waterfall pricing, flat monthly pricing

[kyungmin]

@dmacquart This conversation is no longer related to the dashboard issue, until we define our invoicing solution more clearly. Let's move this conversation to trello.