I want to create a platform where I have 2 kinds of users, Seller and Buyer.
Let's imagine that the Seller is selling a $10 product and I need get 10% of the value to me. Which is the correct way to do that transaction? The buyer need to pay to my account and I transfer the money to the seller after that? How can I do that transaction in a secure way for me and my customers? I need use gateways like Stripe or Paypal for that?
How the majority of platforms pay me with only my bank data? In platforms like Amazon, Shpfy... I think they don't have a person that do manual transfers every day for each seller.
You need Stripe Connect that allows you to work with merchants and payout them. Let me know, if you have a question with Stripe and Stripe Connect.
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I would like to inquire about this:
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/express-checkout/ht_basicRefund-curl-etc/
How to initiate an automated refund based on a product ordered that is out of stock.
Example:
Customer A goes to our website and orders product A. Product A is unfortunately out of stock but we did not notice it right away(restaurant). Instead of refunding people manually, can this API refund the person automatically based on a call back from our website.
Also when a refund is given, is there a charge?(Charge back), if yes, where can I find out about the cost per charge back.
Finally, how long does it take for the refund money to reach the customer's account if the refund is initiated let's say 5 minutes after the sale.
Thank you,
Regards,
Ben
ps: I am posting the query here as I was sent to this website from the Paypal support page.
You could do this using the RefundTransaction API from within an IPN script.
A general refund is not considered a chargeback. That only happens if you refuse to provide a refund for your buyer, so then they end up filing a dispute with their credit card company. The card company would then give them the money and take it from PayPal, who would then come back to you for it. That's when you would have to pay a fee for that chargeback. If I remember correctly that fee would be $25 for such a scenario.
So the refunds wouldn't be a chargeback, but you would lose the 30 cent transaction fee you pay when you do the original transaction. PayPal refunds you the percentage they take, but not the flat 30 cents.
Also, if this is something happens a lot PayPal may limit your account or it could cause you other little problems. Lots of refunds could mean upset customers, and PayPal doesn't want that...and neither should you.
So, all of that said, what I would recommend is that you handle the inventory control before the purchase is made. You're saying you could hit your database to check inventory and then automatically refund, right? Why not hit your database to simply disable the product purchase if the inventory is low instead?
I just bought a script with the Masspay API needed to make an authorized payment at a specific time the "deal" ends.
With that said I am unclear why mass pay would need to be enabled for this feature.
If someone could please explain what Masspay is? And I have been reading that masspay is no longer availabe and I would have to contact paypal directly? Is this true for the sandbox accounts also?
If anyone has any information on this subject I am more than thankful.
Thanks.
If I understand your correctly,
Mass Payment is used for sending money.
If you are the merchant with record (you ship items and charge customers), then PayPal Express Checkout is what you want. You can DoAuthorization to hold the fund before you ship the item, and then DoCapture to collect payment after you shipped.
In you are part of the service provider, say you and another merchant both provide the service and own the payment from customer, then Adaptive Payment is what you need. You need call Pay after you shipped.
In simple terms Masspay allows you to make multiple payments to multiple people in a single shot using xls or csv files.
No, paypal is not sun-setting Masspay. This feature is still available and will be supported by Paypal.
I'm not sure this is the right place to ask but anyway:
I have an e-commerce platform that I want to monetize based on a percentage of revenue made (eg. a store that uses my platform has an order for $100, so I get 1% or $1, while they get $99).
Currently I offer paypal and credit card payments (via my merchant bank) to all stores on the platform (ie. all payments made, regardless of the store, are through the same paypal and merchant account). I then pay these stores per month which is ok for the moment because there are only a few stores using the platform.
Moving forward I want to automate this process and ideally have it operate in real time.
Paypal have an "Adaptive Payments" API that allows chained or parallel payments on a single transaction processed in real time. This means I can skim my 1% and pass the rest of the money along my customer in real time.
I was wondering if there is a similar real-time service for Credit Card processing*? If not, is there a bank/merchant that allow API payment access so I can automate payments per day or week? OR should I just transfer all money from my bank to paypal and use this to pay my customers?
*I realise you can process credit card payments through Paypal without having to sign up, but this is less than ideal. I want the credit card processing to happen on my page as at the moment I'm seeing about 70% of orders using this over paypal.
I was wondering if there is a similar real-time service for Credit Card processing?
No there isn't. True merchant accounts do not allow for split payments. Only one entity can receive a payment and it must be the business the merchant account has been set up for. Receiving the payment for someone else is called factoring and is against all of the major credit card issuers' rules. If a merchant account is found to be factoring it will be closed and the merchant who owns the account will be blacklist. This will prevent them from ever having a true merchant account again. Additionally, there is no way to send money with a merchant account other then issuing a refund for prior purchases.
If not, is there a bank/merchant that allow API payment access so I can automate payments per day or week? OR should I just transfer all money from my bank to paypal and use this to pay my customers?
Other then using adaptive payments, this is definitely the easiest and most straight forward way to accomplish this.
I'm implementing a business model where the service takes 10% of a fee. For example, the user lists a product for $100. The buyer purchases it. $90 goes to the seller, $10 is collected by the site.
Does anyone know offhand if this is feasible with Paypal. In theory all the money could go into our PayPal account and then a $90 payment could be made behind the scenes to the seller's account. Is it possible to programatically schedule a depsoit?
We also have the option of using a merchant gateway like Authorize.
Ideas appreciated. Thanks
look into paypal adoptive payments (beta) www.x.com , they allow you to distribute payments into multiple receiver.
if you want to schedule payments i think you can use the mass pay API to programmatically send payments from the PP account. But using the beta adoptive payments is much much easier.
Yes you can programmatically do a deposit to the seller's account. Paypal calls it Mass Pay.
You pay 2% for the deposit, with a cap. So it might make sense to pool the funds before you deposit them.
I was wondering if someone knew of a way to theoretically have one eCommerce store to act as a medium where sellers can sign up and sell goods and use their PayPal account to receive payments instead?
So, Vendor A signs up, stores their PayPal information. Whenever a customer purchases items form Vendor A, the money goes straight to Vendor A's PayPal account rather than the eCommerce store acting as a middleman and later has to payout all the vendors.
Sounds possible to me, as long as you have the vendor's paypal information, however that would make your data a security risk, because you would have to store the paypal information for multiple vendors.