- Build and
paint[done] sign. - Get change.
Grind[done], sort, and price pots.Get annual plants for the deck hangers. - doneRestart my Paypal professional account, so I can take credit cards.- Clean up deck and yard
- Figure out tables, crates, other display items.
- Get guestbook - this one needs some explaining. We are putting the names of everyone who visits all five studios into a drawing to win one of 5 prizes, so I have to have some way to record the names. A guestbook looks so much nicer than, say, the back of an envelope.
- Clean up studio
Get bags and packing material- Bring wheel outside (Saturday AM.) I am planning to offer demos every hour - educational event, see? - which will work better if the wheel is outside.
To make matters worse - what was I thinking? - I offered to host my family's Mother's Day gathering on Sunday. Actually I know what I was thinking: my location is really the best for everyone to travel to - my godmother would have to drive more than two hours if we hosted it at one of the other sibs house; not to mention that i have to be here, because of the sale. It'll be fine - I'm sure it will - maybe it'll even be fun. But it generates its own list:
- Clean Red's tank. Red is a turtle, a red-eared slider to be specific, and he is a big hit with my little nephew, so I want to tank to be free enough of algae that Red can see and be seen.
- Meal planning and shopping: it's nothing fancy, but I do need to get ground beef, hot dogs, buns, chips, etc., and then make them into something a person might want to eat.
- Get Mother's Day cards!! This is on everybody's list, I suppose.
- Get more deck chairs. I lost a couple to winter, and one to a fit of pique.
I may try to catch a nap.
Just curious, can't you just use a regular personal paypal account to receive $$ from your customers or are you intending to use a swipe machine?
ReplyDeleteYou can, but only if the customer has a paypal account, or if you create a "Buy Now" button for each item. Also, a personal account is limited to $500 in transactions.
ReplyDeleteI would also have to use the professional account if I had ordered the swipe device, but I didn't.
Oh, I would think that you could simply ask a customer to use your computer to send you money via paypal. Maybe that's more than customers want to do in a real life situation.
ReplyDeletePeople do not need to have a paypal account to use paypal, they can go ahead and simply use their credit card through paypal.
Also, I did not know about the $500 limit.
I have a paypal account associated with a fabric business webstore. Sometimes I must receive payments directly rather than through the store, such as when the buyer is from a foreign country and I want to be able to better calculate shipping costs. They send me money directly through paypal outside the store. Some of them have no paypal account at all, but use their credit cards.
ReplyDeleteI just spoke with paypal. Folks with a credit card and no paypal account can send you up to $2000. For higher purchases, they need to establish a paypal account.
You can simply make onsite sales through paypal and not process them through a website store. Voila, no Buy Now buttons, no extra computer efforts.
Your customers go to Paypal at your computer on on their own smart phone or whatever, and click on "send money", fill in the information that includes the email you use with paypal and the amount that appears on the sales slip you prepare, and the payment appears in your paypal account.
Sounds like I have the details wrong, regarding paypal; but I did some research last December, and discover that a standard Paypal account was not going to work for me. Can't remember why now. Maybe because I didn't want the customer to have to do that much work.
ReplyDeleteAnd I just checked, just now; and with my standard account, I can only withdraw $500 a month from Paypal.
That's a pretty long list but it is amazing how all these things come together and get done.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck for a wonderful show!! and thanks for the reminder~ I need to get a Mother's Day card too ;)
ReplyDeleteHang in there!!