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by stickfigure 5024 days ago
This is the first step towards the "marketplace" feature of WePay or PayPal, which is great. But it's not very useful unless I can add a fee for myself.

On a $100 purchase, I should be able to split the money so that $3.20 goes to Stripe, $1.00 goes to me, and $95.80 goes to the seller. Without that ability, I have to make up a separate billing arrangement with the seller, either a flat rate (eg subscription) or calculating fees and billing them post-hoc - messy and unreliable.

2 comments

does this solve the grandparents issue?
That does address the issue. Strange that the fee-splitting page doesn't seem to be linked from the documentation anywhere.
Does this mean there is no way to even charge sellers who use your service, other than requiring them to fill out their own credit card on your site? That seems like an extra hassle for setting up a service that charges users for use of the marketplace.