Open valianttry opened 8 years ago
@valianttry what do we do in the case where we don't know the state? For example, with Paypal I was easily able to calculate per-country totals, but I don't know what state it came from. Also, for sure this is 2014? Not 2015?
@jbuck 2014 only. We need state only. Each state requires us to register as a charity and need to know as closely as possible how much revenue we made in 2014. Close is good enough.
I spoke to Pamela really quickly and she said that estimates are also a-okay. Also, it's 4 states (Oregon, Ohio, Indiana, and one other) that require this information, not all of them, thankfully enough.
@jbuck do you know if we can get 'State' from the PayPal API? When I looked at these docs I couldn't see it (as we're not collecting a shipping address).
@jbuck it's likely she'll want other states in the future. It really helps to have one spreadsheet so we don't have to go digging for future one-off requests by state.
@adamlofting damn, I think you're right. I could've sworn the state was available in the API, but yeah, it totally isn't...
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@jbuck https://github.com/jbuck do you know if we can get 'State' from the PayPal API? When I looked at these docs https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/api/merchant/GetTransactionDetails_API_Operation_NVP/ I couldn't see it (as we're not collecting a shipping address).
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One option would be to get the % of US donations in those States via Stripe, and use those %s to estimate the income from those states in PayPal.
@jbuck or @adamlofting is it possible to pull together a simple spreadsheet with these columns:
US state, total donations in 2014
Pamela in accounting needs this for legal filings per each state.
Thank you!