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Whitelaw finance committee weighs online payment vendors, cost and card fees
Summary
The finance committee reviewed options to offer online payments for taxes, utilities and licenses; Transcendent Technologies would cost $350/year, adding payment capability to the current site would add $1,200/year and credit-card charges would cost residents about 2.5%. The board tabled card payments pending further review.
At its Aug. 3 meeting the Finance Committee reviewed options to enable online payments for property taxes, utilities and licenses. Trustee Lois Kiel said the committee considered Transcendent Technologies at $350 per year and that adding online payment capability to the current Town Web site would cost an additional $1,200 per year on top of the existing $1,472 site fee.
Trustee Kiel noted that credit-card payments would impose a roughly 2.5% fee on residents and that the committee expressed concern about cost versus expected usage. The committee agreed to explore debit-card options through the Village’s bank and tabled a decision on credit-card payments until the September meeting.
Clerk Kocourek and finance members will gather additional pricing, usage projections and vendor terms for a return presentation next month.
