Payment and Billing

Payment

Please pay on the day of your session or before. You are welcome to pay for any number of sessions in advance.

• Online
  • Easy way

    Please use the button below to pay me online with either a credit card or a PayPal account. After you press the button, you should get a Paypal form. Here's what to put near the top:

    • Description: the student's name
    • Unit price: whatever you owe

    After that, choose one of "Don't have a PayPal account" (to use a credit card) or "Log in to PayPal" (if you have a PayPal account) and follow instructions.

    

    I never see your credit card number; you only need to trust PayPal with that.

  • Harder way (avoid PayPal fees)

    Actually if you have a PayPal account with a balance, I'd appreciate it if you'd pay me a different way: Login to your PayPal account and click the Send Money tab. Put my email address in the To field. Then (this is key) click the Personal tab before proceeding. Don't worry what category it's in; I'll know what it's for. This doesn't save you money, but it does ensure that I get the whole amount rather than having to share it with PayPal.

• Check/bill payment from your bank

  I'm happy to accept payments by check or online bill payments from your bank, which arrive here as checks. Please send to Jon Dreyer, 81 Baker Ave, Lexington MA 02421-6228. Don't worry about an "account number" if you use bank bill payment.

• Cash

  Cash is great, preferably in person.

Billing

I usually don't send bills because I ask to be paid in advance. However, sometimes things get complicated and I send a bill, usually by email, and you can always request one. The bill, usually dating from the beginning of the calendar year, is usually in two separate files, one called the Customer Report and one invoice. The Customer Report contains all your payments and the grand total from the invoice. The "Total Due" line on the Customer Report is what I think you owe. (If it's negative that means I owe you.)The invoice shows the itemized charges but no payments, so you usually don't owe the "Amount Due" amount from the invoice! If any of this does not seem right, please let me know. (By the way, you can ignore the "0-30 days" etc. stuff on the Customer Report.) I use GnuCash to keep track of this stuff.

Thank you!

Jon Dreyer • Math tutor • Computer Science tutor • www.passionatelycurious.com
781-696-2614 • 81 Baker Ave, Lexington MA 02421-6228 • email