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Is it possible for a vendor, selling products on an oscommerce website, to get paid a certain cut from the online sale at the time of checkout?

 

We would like to carry items from various vendors on consignment and would like them to be automatically paid through PayPal as their items are being sold.

 

Is this possible and if so I would greatly appreciate any information that anyone can provide!

 

Thanks!

 

Sincerely,

 

-Matt

 

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Posted (edited)

Sure it's possible, but I can't think of any easy way to do it.

 

One method would be to accept all payments into a central paypal account and then have the script met out the money to each of the vendors, but I'm not aware of any way to do a paypal account to paypal account transaction through PHP off of their servers.

 

Another option would be to modify the order class so that each product is marked as belonging to a specific vendor. On checkout, the item totals would be grouped based on the vendor and several transactions would be made. This, of course, would have to use PayPal Pro and all of your vendors would have to be signed up with it.

 

The simplest way would be have all the money put into a central bank account and write a script that keeps good records of who is owed how much and at the end of each week, transfer the money to their paypal accounts by hand.

Edited by dynamoeffects

Please use the forums for support! I am happy to help you here, but I am unable to offer free technical support over instant messenger or e-mail.

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