Hi
I know all this is explained in the API doucmentation/developers' guide somewhere, but I do have the following question with which I would appreciate your help:
How would I create a button which would, when pressed, send x money to the seller and y money to me as a commission? I understand from reading some of he API documentation that all the money (x + y) would have to go to me first, and then I would send out the x payments to all the sellers en mass. So how would I encode that in the button? It would have to be something that told my PayPal account to pay seller x money automatically at some time in the month. Well, it doesn't have to be automatically, I could authorize all the payments. So how would this work? Or maybe it could send data to a Mass Payments file, which I could upload at the end of the month to release all the payments.
All I'd need really is just a record of the seller, something like what is described here.
I'd appreciate some explanation instead of just a link to some complicated documentation; but I thank you in advance for your reply.
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pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 21:03 — 12th July 2007.
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I have never heard of multiple recipients, but what I would do is setup IPN and point it to a script. Have that script keep track on the payments and tally up how much commission is owed. Then make those payments occasionally.
demonhale posted this at 01:44 — 13th July 2007.
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Hmmm. haven't encountered this myself. I think you want it to be like an affiliate commission thing right?
I guess you just keep track of the money coming in from a regular button with an appropriate label, and then calculate the commission after the total period and then split the revenue... I hope someone has a better idea...
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