To those that are organizing meetups that require payment this is the procedure

Login into www.paypal.com using your paypal account
Select Merchant Services
Select Buy Now button

Fill in Item name with the name of the event (example: Hunter Mountain Weekend)
Fill in Price with the amount the member will be paying (example: 125.00)

Click Create Button
A new screen will appear
Select E-mail Tab

Now copy the HTML code generated. This is the link you need to add to your meetup event description.

When a member clicks on this link a new screen will be displayed and they authorize paypay to transfer the monies from their account to your paypal account.

Remember when pricing an event that Paypal charges $0.30 for the transaction, plus 2.9% of the amount transferred.

So as an example we use the $13.00 for Bowling, you would need to collect $13.00 + $0.30 +0.338 for a rounded total of $13.64.