I ask again KSS, please

I am sending this out to KSS. I understand that they are a platform that has clients msc's. They usually do not have the msc the shop is being performed on the enrollment page. It normally gives some brief synopsis of what the shop is and to please enroll if interested. My issue is, could you please say if it is PayPal or check on the enrollment page, please. You have several shops that are on my way and I hate to sign up and then find out that the client pays by check. Am I making any sense over here? Could we find a little middle ground - thank you

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KSS is a scheduling company. They have nothing to do with the payment. You have to check with the MSC itself. My question is: what is the big deal with getting paid by check. I work with some MSC's that pay by check and I never had a problem.

It is not their responsibility to tell you how a MSC pays. It will say what MSC the shop is for. Go to that MSC's website and look up what their payment method is. It is your responsibility to take note of how any MSC you sign up with or shop for pays.

My point is that they do not state what msc the shop is for. I have no qualms with researching how a company pays. I really wish to be paid however. When I am traveling it goes to my home address and those checks are only good for 30 - 60 days. I am on the road until April. I am not trying to be a pain however if the company wishes to have shops completed could they extend a small, tiny courtesy and tell me the msc or "hey msc pays by check". I understand it is my loss for not wanting checks but I do want to make money. The company wants shoppers. Is there no mid ground?

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You are making sense but I agree with the above posters. It is not the responsibility of an independent scheduler to tell you how a MSC pays so you can decide whether you want to sign up with that company or not. As with all companies, you have to sign up in order to see their payment terms. It only takes a couple of minutes to register with a company anyway. Then you have the option of not accepting an assignment with any company whose payment terms are unacceptable to you.

I still don't get it. Every shop notice I get for KSS either includes the name of their client MSC in the email or it can be found on the actual application for the shop. In looking at the job board, for every single shop the MSC name is listed right next to the client name. And how many companies issue checks only good for as little as 30 to 60 days? I have a check here from a MSC and it has no expiration.

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I think Maritz checks are only good for 60 or 90 days after issue. Bestmark is the same 60 or 90 (I had to have one re-issued because I lost it, then found it too late).

I can see the MSC in KSS or on the shop board. I don't think they (Kss) needs to inform of payment, but yes it would be helpful to those who are on the road without a home address for many months out of the year. But that I do believe, in my opinion, is a minority of shoppers.

I believe all of the checks that I get are good for 90 days. I don't think that I ever see ones that are only good for 30 or 60 days.

Maritz checks are good for 90 days.

I have seen them good for 60 days, not many, but a few.

If you click on the link I included, you will not see the msc listed. Further if you accept an assignment with KSS. you are stating that you will do the shop. I have not qualms doing the shop - when I am paid for my work. The companies I have seen that issue checks (athpower, marritz, bestmark, etc)are dating the checks for about 60 days. I understand that I am the minority however I would like to be able to agree to do a shop and not worry if I will be getting paid.

Just lost trying to find a fire pit in a concrete jungle wishing it was a wooded glen...

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The msc and company name is listed on the KSS job board next to each job.

Kim

In the emails I get from KSS they list all the information about the shop and then sign...

Jason Weeks
KSS International, Inc.
for HS Brands

HS Brands would be the MSC (service sleuth in this case)

OR

when you click the link it shows the MSC at the top of the page. No yours does not. But the job board should reveal that.

I have a check from Maritz in my hand as I type this and it says "void after 90 days."

gypsymonkey Wrote:
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> The companies I have
> seen that issue checks (athpower, marritz,
> bestmark, etc)are dating the checks for about 60
> days.

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