Simon Kenton Council’s Practices Regarding Credit Card Payments

Balancing the convenience that credit cards provide in making payments with the “cost of doing business,” the following practices are in place to address credit card fees effective October 1, 2020:

Transactions that will not be charged an additional processing fee include:

• Payments through our reservation system for summer camps, district and council events.
• Contributions to Friends of Scouting and special events.
• Payments for miscellaneous transactions of $100 or less. This includes deposits to UDA accounts, registration transactions and miscellaneous payments. Note: larger transactions may not be split into multiple smaller transactions of $100 to avoid fees.

Transactions that will incur a 3% processing fee include:

• Unit charter renewal payments received in one of the SKC offices. The majority of registration fees are “pass through” fees remitted to the National Council BSA. Online credit card payments through the National Unit Charter Renewal System incur a credit card fee via the National BSA outside of SKC’s control.
• Payment of popcorn invoices. These are higher volume transactions, and fees are much greater than the “cost of doing business” to SKC.
• Payments for miscellaneous transactions of greater than $100, or multiple smaller transactions in a calendar month. This includes deposits to UDA accounts, registration transactions and payments for events and activities not done through scoutingevent.com.

For questions about these practices please contact our Director of Fiscal Operations, Cindy Larimore, at 614-310-1319.