TXSSAR Online Dues and Donations Payments
(invoices are available on the Members site if you don't have yours)

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2010 Dues Payments

Using this form you can make 2010 dues payments online for your primary chapter and optionally up to 5 secondary chapter memberships.  Select your primary chapter from the drop down list on the Primary Chapter Dues line.  Once your primary chapter has been selected, the annual dues based on the chapter selected will be reflected in the Cost column to the right.  The cost of your primary chapter dues includes chapter, state, and national dues.

If you hold secondary memberships in TXSSAR chapters, use the same technique to select those chapters by using the 1st through 5th Secondary Chapter Dues listings.  You can only select one chapter in each listing and the order of selection of your secondary chapters isn't important.  It is only important that you select each of them in a separate listing or your membership dues will not be credited for any chapters not selected.  If you hold more than 5 secondary memberships, submit your payment to include the first 5 secondary chapters along with your primary membership chapter.  When that transaction is complete, start a new transaction in which you will select any additional secondary chapter memberships which weren't included in the first transaction.

TXSSAR Patriots Fund 2010 Contribution

In the past we have offered a variety of ways for members to donate to the Patriots Fund.  You could make donations to the Patriots Fund itself, to individual programs, or to the expenses for the current year.  But we have a special situation this year brought about by the need to change the way we allocate earnings from the Patriots Fund to pay for scholarships and contest expenses.  In the past we have decided how much to give in scholarships and expenses for a contest year in March of that contest year.  However, we did not actually know how much we would have in earnings until January of the following year when the earnings report was available.  Normally this was not a problem as our earnings grew with the market.  However in 2009 we had a problem as the earnings from the Patriots Fund in 2008 was less than we had voted to award in scholarships and expenses so we had to scramble to find the money to pay our obligations.

As a result we want to change our funding procedure so that the earnings on our investments in 2009, which will become known in January 2010, will be used to pay our expenses for the 2010 contest year and will not be paid until the March 2011 convention.  This will provide us with more certainty in determining the amount available for scholarships and will allow us to operate in a more businesslike manner.

In order to make this change work we are asking that all donations made in conjunction with the dues notices this year be earmarked for the Patriots Fund expenses for this year.  Any funds left over after the expenses are paid will revert to the general Patriots Fund.  Please consider giving in this manner so we can meet our obligations for the youth contests this year.  If we do not raise enough money from this donation cycle we will have to make the balance up from our TXSSAR operating account.

To make a 2010 Patriots Fund Expenses donation, enter your donation amount in the text box between the "Enter your donation..." text and the "add" link.  Do not enter anything in the Cost column!  After you make your donation entry, click the "add" link and your donation amount will be added to the Cost column beside your entry, the Cost column will be automatically added in to update the Subtotal entry, the current Handling fee will be calculated and entered, and the transtaction Total will be updated at the bottom of the form.

Online Form Information

The only items that are mandatory on this form are the first two entries - the Name of the member/donor and his respective National Number.  Since it is entirely possible for payments to be made via a credit card which is not in the member's name, this information is required to ensure that the proper person receives credit for dues and/or donations.

You can make a dues payment only, you can make a donation to Patriots Fund Expenses without the payment of dues, or you can pay 6 sets of dues and contribute to Patriots Fund Expenses, all in a single transaction.  As long as at least one area is selected for payment and an amount is entered (if necessary) the form will process.

A Handling fee of approximately 3% is automatically calculated and applied to the transaction based on the total amount to offset the online merchant account fees that we are charged.

If you feel like you have made too many errors on the form, click the Reset button to remove all entries and set all amounts to zero.  You can correct a single entry by reselecting from a drop-down list or re-entering an amount in a text box and clicking the respective "add" link.  When your order is set the way you want it, click the Continue button to proceed to the PayPal processing page.

PayPal Payment Processing

TXSSAR online payments are processed via PayPal.  You do not need to be a PayPal member to make credit card payments via PayPal, but members will have their usual options (as previously set up) as to how payments are made.  Although you will not be on a secure server while you are entering your dues and donation selections on this page, you will transfer to a secure PayPal server for credit card processing as soon as you click the Continue button.

When you get to the PayPal page, members need only enter your email and password to log on to your account to complete payment.  Non-members can click the Continue button in the Guest Checkout box.  Additional pages will allow you to enter the appropriate credit card information to complete the transaction.  You will be able to view the details of your transaction on the initial PayPal page to ensure that all elements were correctly forwarded.

Note:  TXSSAR currently blocks PayPal payments from those who have non-U.S. PayPal accounts and payments from foreign countries.  If you are out of the country and would like to pay your dues online, please contact the webmaster and he will temporarily unblock these settings so TXSSAR can receive your payment.