Monday, November 17, 2014

USING WEEBLY FOR E-commerce



WEEBLY:  GAVIN K. <support@weebly.zendesk.com>   (415) 375-3268




I talked to Gavin today, and he was most helpful in outlining all the options for the possibility of selling tickets online through a weebly e-commerce module, and even offered a 20% coupon off any package we might adopt; this 20% coupon would be good up until December 15th.



Here’s what I learned:

1)      Any e-commerce module will export info to a CSV file.  Buyers would get a confirmation e-mail.  With the Business Plan, they could have the option of a) picking up at door(basically relying on the CSV file we would get) or getting the ticket as a digital-download pdf which they could print out.

2)      The first of two plans:  STARTER PACKAGE allows weebly customer to sell up to 10 products.  Payment must be through credit cards (for this you have to have an account with STRIPE).  Paypal is not an option.  

A)  $39/6 mo   $49/year


B) If the church/organization I’m working with has a paypal account and lets me use the password, I can use their STRIPE account.  Charges are the standard 2.9% + 30c/transaction + 3% to weebly.  (Any non-profit may have negotiated lower charges)

C) I could setup another STRIPE account (free?) and negotiate lower charges.



3)      The second of two plans:  BUSINESS PACKAGE


  a) $29/mo (no 3% transaction fee for Weebly)
  b)
Paypal OR Credit Card(  20% discount for 1st month) although Gavin gave us a better discount for either plan

IMPACT ON OUR TICKET SALES:

charge for this Weebly e-commerce module: $29/mo -20%  = $23.20/mo



PROFIT FROM ONLINE TICKET SALES 
        $15@-{$.335 (2.9%*$15) +30centstransactionfee} 
                 =$15-$.635= $14.365
NOTO BENE:  This is FYI, I'm neither promoting nor demoting.  Consensus.

Friday, November 14, 2014

NEC FINANCIAL STATUS

From Minutes of the Sept 9, 2014 meeting of NEC (Newark Empowerment Center):

FINANCIAL STATUS - Whereas initially the Empowerment Center was financially self-supporting from the community, in most recent years some additional funding has been required from Friendship House, Inc.  General Operating Funds.  In 2013, the total expenses, including the client financial assistance was $77,870, which required $11,550 additional funding from Friendship House, Inc.  Year-to-date 2014, the expenses, $53,495 have exceeded income, $35,340 by $18,155.  Some anticipated income between now and the balance of the year may make it possible to end up with less deficit.  The budget for 2014 is $87,100.  some additional Newark community funding will be needed to avoid a growing deficit. 

Please share this financial information with appropriate people and organizations.  Contributions may be made to Friendship House, Inc., P.O.Box 1517, Wilmington, DE   19899 and memo "Newark Center."

Delaware United Way contributions may be designated to Friendship House, Inc. using code 9033.

....

Fund Raisers - Cafe Gelato will sponsor the 6th Annual 10 Mile Run and this year also a 3 Mile Walk on October 19 organized and managed by Races2Run.  For more information and registration see races2run.com.  Ryan German, ryan@cafegelato.net, would like some committee support to help with race organization.  Please contact Ryan directly to volunteer your support.  
  St. Andrews Presbyterian is hosting an October 7 Golf Outing at Back Creek Golf Course.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

1st PLANNING MEETING

1st Planning Meeting for this event will be held on Sunday, Nov 16th at the UUFN at 11:15.  
CO-CHAIRS:  Cathay Keough and Mike Keough (also SJ Chairs)
PUBLICITY/SALES:  Maia Kaiser and Tami Ring-Kuchenbeser (FC)

                        Anne Green (Communications)
WEBSITE and MISC:  Jan Owens (Code Purple)
MUSIC:  Mike Arenson and friends
DECORATIONS:  Rachael Coffey and Nancy Plummer 
RICHARD WAIBEL:  Liaison with NEC

AGENDA:  
1.  DECIDE on NAME, THEME, PRICE, TICKET COLOR,  
2.  ASSIGN responsibility for designing/producing tickets and flyer
3.  CREATE a plan for ticket sales for Holiday gift-giving season 
          (decorated envelopes/boxes/hanging_ornament?)
4.  PUBLICITY PLAN:  
       UUFN (update/Connections/announcement/flyer/other)
       Newark Faith Community
       Other
4.  ACTION ITEMS:

PURPOSE OF UUFNFEB7.blogspot.com

The UUFN SJ (Social Justice) and FH (Fellowship Committee are sponsoring a'evening of jazz' event on Feb 7th in MacKinnon Hall, UUFN, 420 Willa Road, Newark Delaware 19711 to benefit the NEC (Newark Empowerment Center).  The purpose of this blog is for the organizers of this event to communicate with each other in the background.  It is not a public blog. If I am correct, you may post comments but please make comments relevant to the post.  If you wish to start a new topic, please contact me.