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-====== Account Balance ======+====== Account Balance [S] ======
  
 This feature allows clients to accumulate positive or negative balances on your site.  All the transactions that happen on the clients account balance can be viewed on the client side in the client area's **My Account Balance History** feature.  This feature allows clients to accumulate positive or negative balances on your site.  All the transactions that happen on the clients account balance can be viewed on the client side in the client area's **My Account Balance History** feature. 
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 If you allow **positive balances** on your site clients will be able to add "money" to their account and then pay for listing placement, renewals, subscriptions and features on the site.  When you allow positive balances within the system the **add to account balance** link appears in the clients area so that clients can add money to their site balance. If you allow **positive balances** on your site clients will be able to add "money" to their account and then pay for listing placement, renewals, subscriptions and features on the site.  When you allow positive balances within the system the **add to account balance** link appears in the clients area so that clients can add money to their site balance.
  
 +<tip c w>**2CO Warning:**  According to 2 Checkout (2CO) policies, the **2CO gateway should not be used to add positive balance to the account balance**.  They [2CO] do permit both tangible and intangible goods to be paid for, but adding to the account balance (AKA pre-paying) is not considered tangible or intangible service or good by 2CO((This has been verified directly with 2CO representatives.)).  It can be used to pay off a negative balance, where the user owes the site some amount, but it cannot make the balance go positive.
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 +Starting in software **versions 6.0.0** and up((We were not aware of the restriction ourselves until a client brought it to our attention and we verified with 2CO to add the restrictions for version 6.0.  If you are using version prior to 6.0 and allow positive balances, and also use 2CO, you are highly encourage to update to the latest version to ensure you are not in violation of 2CO policies.)), the software takes this restriction into account, if you are adding funds to the account balance and the end balance would go positive, **2CO will not appear as a payment option**, so you will need to ensure that another payment gateway is configured to be used if you wish to allow positive balances on your site.</tip>
 ===== Allow Negative Balance ===== ===== Allow Negative Balance =====
 If you allow **negative balances** on your site clients can accumulate costs on your site and pay for them at a later time.  The client can go to the **My Account Balance History** feature in their client area on the client side to view their current negative balance and add money to their account. If you allow **negative balances** on your site clients can accumulate costs on your site and pay for them at a later time.  The client can go to the **My Account Balance History** feature in their client area on the client side to view their current negative balance and add money to their account.
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 The value you set here is the minimum amount a client must add to their account balance to add to their account balance on the client side.  This setting is best used on site's that use credit card gateways to pay for services on their site.  All credit card gateways have fees attached to every transaction and depending on those fees there may be a threshold amount the admin wishes to not allow charge amounts below.  This is where that is set. The value you set here is the minimum amount a client must add to their account balance to add to their account balance on the client side.  This setting is best used on site's that use credit card gateways to pay for services on their site.  All credit card gateways have fees attached to every transaction and depending on those fees there may be a threshold amount the admin wishes to not allow charge amounts below.  This is where that is set.
  
-You as the admin can add any amount to their site balance through the admin tool.  +You as the admin can add any amount to their site balance through the admin tool. 
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 +===== Starting Balance (Initial Site Balance) ===== 
 +You can set the starting balance to a user's account upon registration by following the instructions on this page: [[admin_menu:users_user_groups:user_groups_home:edit_group:start|]] 
 +===== Force use ===== 
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 +This setting allows you to force your users to pay for an order using the account balance, even if there are other enabled payment gateways. When checking out, the only payment option will be account balance if you check the box for this setting. 
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 +When adding money to the account balance, your clients will see all other payment options you have enabled on the payment gateways page. 
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