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Excellent. I believe this will be the key to making this all work. Now to just get it implemented lol

Greg if I can get some code started would you be able to help iron out some things to get me rolling? Such as extracting the sellers email address from the ad page?

I found this variable:

handling

Handling charges. This variable is not quantity-specific. The same handling cost applies, regardless of the number of items on the order.

By default, no handling charges are included.

I’m not charging the customer a percentage, only a 3 dollar fee, so a 3 dollar handling fee should work. I could possibly even change the code to reflect “website fee” or something of that nature.

I don’t mind the users having to be address verified, I want this is be as legit and protected as possible.

As far as the custom email fields, I am using woo commerce with wpadverts on top. Each ad is listed by a user and every user must be logged in, so the email address of the person who posted the ad should be stored in the code of the ad page. Then when another user (who must be registered and logged in) wants to purchase said item, it shouldn’t be too hard to grab their email from the account page.

This still doesn’t solve the issue of my site collecting the 3 dollar payment as the 3 dollars would just go to the seller with the payment. I know of one website that has accomplished this payment setup: swappa.com. Maybe there is a PayPal specific coding forum that I can use because these questions are actually unrelated to your plugin. You did your part when you told me where in the code I should be placing the PayPal button for it to appear on my ad pages.

Thanks again for reading.

The code provided above does indeed add a buy button to the listing page that allows the buyer to purchase their item at the listed price. Thank you so much for the help with that! However, I am stuck attempting to take a small commission per transaction.

The biggest hurdle is that I want every transaction to be Paypal protected between the buyer and seller, so the payment must come from the buyer to the seller. I was at first thinking that I would have the first payment come from the buyer straight to my website and then I would generate another payment from my website to the seller, minus my small commission. The issue arises if there is a problem with the product, I am then in the middle if one party wants to dispute. So I need to figure out a way for the payment to go directly between the two customers while still capturing the commission/fee.

Any ideas? Thank you for reading. This is the final hurdle I have to launch the website by the way.

Thank you very much for the information! However this has gotten 10 times more complicated in the last 24 hours. It seems that the payment structure I had in my head is way more complicated to achieve than I was thinking.

I want my users to be able to post their items for sale (seller) and then another user to be able to purchase that item with a direct PayPal transaction (buyer). That part seems easy enough however my website needs to take a very small commission for the transaction.

I was thinking to do that the payment must come to my website first and then I would need to auto generate another payment to the seller minus the small commission. Even still making a buy now button that pays the selling user instead of my websites email address has been a challenge as well.

Yesterday I added another plugin which allows “vendors” and sets the site up as a marketplace. This allows me to charge a commission like I want and appears to solve the payment thing completely, however I hate the layout and much prefer the advert layout and ad management. So I’m brainstorming of how I can incorporate the payment structure of the marketplace plugin with the layout and management of the advert plugin.

This might take a while because I have limited programming knowledge and the PayPal guides aren’t very helpful in this regard. Anyways thanks for reading all this. I appreciate the feedback.