Note to Self

[rolanni]

Do not plan on getting Anything Useful done during the first three weeks of the fall semester. Just lay in a buncha bubblegum books and plan on coming home and turning into a vegetable. Do not plan on finishing the final draft of a novel during those three weeks, and do not agree to a deadline that falls within those three weeks.

In other news, has anyone here who has a vendor or prime account at PayPal been having trouble with their monthly financial report not truly reflecting sales? This is one of those things that makes me utterly crazy, because I can't figure out how it can be different from the raw data, and yet...

In the spirit of doing Anything Useful, I logged into PayPal last night to download the financials, only to find that the monthly financial report showed that this particular account had earned -- wait for it -- $25 in August, while the raw transaction-by-transaction showed an amount...considerably in excess of that. Before anyone asks, yes I did check the Obvious -- the date spread, the month -- as far as I can tell, I asked the same question of the monthly financial report and the transaction-by-transaction report -- and got two wildly different answers.

Worse, a glance back at the books reveals that the last two months' financial statements have been inaccurate, though to a degree lesser enough that I, in my apparently now habitual frenzied state, didn't notice.

Not a happy camper.

Thunderstorms and low 70/21 temps today. Maybe the temperature in my office will fall below 80/26.

Comments

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

PayPal fees? You factored those in, yes?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Yep. The financial report has a separate line to account the fees. So it would look like this:

SALES: $xxx.xx
FEES: $xx.xx

The *fees* seem to be correct, but the sales figure is off by hundreds.