Can this be set up so that vendors receive all payments directly?

Sure. Set commission rate to 100%. You could use the Stripe gateway ( https://www.wcvendors.com/product/stripe-commissions-gateway/ ) or the PayPal Adaptive Payment gateway included in the free plugin, to do this. Just be sure to ask PayPal or Stripe how the fees would work so that the vendor receives all of the money instead of you.

Need to look into this more, but if the vendor’s paypal email is specified, any payment goes to them, how would there be a fee issue on my part? I wasn’t even planning to have our own PP account used for any transaction only our participating vendors.

You have to have a master account setup. This is for your API Credentials. Otherwise, you can’t configure the gateway at all or how things get setup. It would be impossible to do any other way.

I understand that, but afterwards, if the vendor’s paypal email is specified to receive payments with your plugin, and any payment goes to directly them, not from my PP account, how would there be a fee issue on my part?
A little confused here, sorry.

Confusion is fine, that’s what support forums are for. ?? You will want to call paypal (use the phone, not email!) and ask them how their fee structure for Adaptive Payments works since you will be splitting the payment with 0% to you and 100% to the vendor.

Sometimes they might charge you and the vendor both a receiver or transaction fee, but they will be able to help you sort that out since it’s all on their end. Install WC Vendors, configure your Paypal Adaptive Payments account with all the right credentials, and configure a vendors account with PayPal (vendo dashboard > shop settings page) and run a test transaction to see how it all works.

Thanks, I was hoping for a much easier solution, where all payments would simply be a direct link to their respective Paypal accounts. Calling Paypal has never been anything easy. ??

I’m assuming now that there is probably no plugin that will do this if going through WooCommerce, and probably no eCommerce plugin designed to do this.

I wonder if the easiest way to do this would be to modify the PayPal plugin that comes with WooCommerce. Set your checkout to only allow one product per checkout (or one vendors product per checkout) and then use that vendors email as the receivers by injecting it into the PayPal plugin with a filter or a hook that may or may not already exist.

You would want to set the vendors commission rate to 0 that way it pays the main paypal account, which you’ve overwritten to the vendors paypal account, and it would send 100% of the funds to that account.

Some googling and trial and error could tell you this for sure. Probably some PHP for sure, too.

Looks like we are entering uncharted territory here! ??
Not a coder, so no idea what the PHP mod would look like, or where it would be placed.
Thanks for all your help on this!

Hi,
To the original poster – did you ever figure out how to make this work?
I am starting to work on my site and have the same issue as you did.
So I’m wondering if you took the Paypal Adaptive Payments approach or if you went ahead and changed the paypal plugin, or if you found another solution.

Thanks!

I never did and could find no plugin that could work in this manner. As mentioned, not a coder, so was hoping for an easy plugin that could do this.
I just went ahead with the default WooCommerce plugin.
The path of least resistance. ??

I’m sure some developer will figure this out down the road.