Greetings, Say I have a site that lets sellers list a product themselves and choose their own price. When a buyer purchases the product from the seller, I'd like a small commission of 2% for the sale. This is just a simple example, of course. I'd like it if there were a way to do it in Paypal just so they can handle the disputes, etc. should there be any. I'm definitely open to ideas... This is probably an easy one but I am new to eCommerce... any help is much appreciated! thanks!
no, it's not an easy one. Doubt you will find a solution which doesn't force you to handle disputes and/or assume some of the risk. For example, using paypal you could accept payments to your account and then send the seller their money minus the commission. Seems to be the most common method of doing this but fails since it would open you up to chargebacks etc. The last post on this thread at paypal's developer forums covers this and goes into some detail about risks and problems. https://www.x.com/thread/43801
Hmm, thanks shallowink -- I'll keep digging around. It seems like this quandary should've come up before and been turned into some kind of storefront api or something. I'm not necessarily opposed to handling disputes and billing, but being a one-man show developer after being an IT manager all day is a bit much already. Automation would be key.