payment options

Dear eduFire,

How do I add my paypal information to the site? I wanted to be able to make it easy for people to pay me. :D

Also – it would be quite an undertaking, but I think you should consider adding a library of characters needed for Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Greek, Russian, etc. for teachers to use with their students in the chat portion. Something else that might be a good idea – have some kind of drawing program so we can show people how to draw the characters (in which order the strokes should be). Think etch-a-sketch! :D So as I draw something out with my mouse or touch pad, it will show up on the student’s screen as I’m drawing. (I had been thinking about this with teaching Japanese.)

You’re doing swell!

Love,
Shane

Hey Shane. Don’t quote me but I think the way it works is that Paypal goes to whatever email address you signed up with. If that’s not your main Paypal address I believe you can associate that email address with your Paypal account so all the $$$ goes to the same spot. Let me know if that makes sense (or doesn’t :)).

As for characters, I think we already have some of that. I was doing a session with a Japanese tutor for instance and she was able to type some of the Japanese characters. I think you need to know the various keyboard shortcuts (of course that’s something that many students wouldn’t know yet!). Anyway, we’ll definitely take this into consideration and see if there’s a way to make this even easier.

Also like the etch-a-sketch idea…that’s definitely something we’ve talked about and are looking into too!

What about designing/coding a program where the user can choose what language they want to type in, and all the characters come out relevant to the language chosen. It could be as simple as choosing a font from a scroll down list, but instead you would be choosing a language.

Does that exist?

Shane,

If you have a paypal account, they provide code for you to embed a button wherever you can put html.
Jon, if we did that how would Edufire get their percentage?

Just so there isn’t any uncertainty here, here’s how payment currently works on eduFire:

After successfully completing a teaching session, the student will see a link on their home page to pay the tutor. That link will take them to paypal to process the transaction, then back to our site. Once we’ve received the money we’ll initiate a payment from eduFire to the tutor.

I hope that’s clear. If not, feel free to ask more questions. :)

hi jon
I was just wondering what happens when a student says after the class something like “sorry but we don t have paypal here in China, I can t pay you”
Thx

We track the student down by IP address, send out a squad and they hold the student upside down and shake them until money comes out.

First of all, they can also pay with a credit card. If the student doesn’t have a credit card or Paypal I guess that kinda begs the question…how were they expecting to pay?!

Anyway, in all seriousness, one of the biggest things we’re trying to figure out right now is our policy towards payment. One of the things we’re playing with is allowing our teachers to require payment upfront. This would be a choice that a teacher would need to make. What we’ve found so far is that 99% of students pay promptly after their sessions. The fact that 1% don’t is still an issue and in the meantime I’ll take care of this for you.

We’re also working to make it more transparent when a student doesn’t pay so other tutors can avoid that student in the future.