Comments on: FreshBooks Now Accepts AMEX

By: bayan iç giyim

bayan iç giyim — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:44:29 +0000

very nice

By: Michael Allore

Michael Allore — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:21:37 +0000

Hi Levi, Thanks for posting this story. I’ve just run into this exact same scenario after 3 weeks of trying to get answers. Please get in touch if you have any other advice or have since learned of a way to shorten this process. I can’t believe that such a common use case is such an anomoly to do.

Thanks,
Mike

By: mike

mike — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:04:37 +0000

Any chance you could work some of this magic to get my (US) bank to stop charging me a “foreign fee” on my transactions with you?

Usually this fee (3%, I think) is charged when I make a transaction in a foreign currency. It’s a ripoff, but it sort of makes sense. But my bank still charges the fee even when a foreign company bills me in USD.

So, if there’s any way you could convince MasterCard that you’re American as well, that would be swell. But if it’s another three years of work, well, you probably have more important things to do.

By: Levi Cooperman

Levi Cooperman — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:39:22 +0000

Good point Peter, wow, those were the days…maybe we should start charging in Euro’s

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:33:47 +0000

The difference between 14 and 17.50 is 3.50, not 2.50

–Peter
Mississauga

By: Levi Cooperman

Levi Cooperman — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:29:35 +0000

Hi Steve,

Thanks, it was a long haul! Yeah, all Canadian businesses are charged 5% GST on the total in USD. At the end of the month, we add up the total GST charged, convert it to CAD and submit it to the feds.

- Levi

By: Steve Ireland

Steve Ireland — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:27:35 +0000

Hey Levi,

As a fellow Canuck I feel your pain. Tenacity does pay off!

Are you charging Canadian customers GST in US$, then converting internally?