Hello,
Yeah Narwa is gone. But thanks for the support.

For your questions:

1. Can you please explain me the journey of the money after the buyer checkouts (and the payments are scheduled daily/weekly/monthly)

Sure. If you have scheduled payments set: customer payment goes to ADMIN paypal accout. Shceduled payment is then withdrawn from the admin paypal account to the vendor’s paypal account at the scheduled interval. Once every day, once every week, once every month. Regardless of when the commission hit your admin account, it will be paid on that schedule. (i.e. weekly payments: all commissions due from purchases made 1 hour ago , 1 week ago, as well as purchases made 1 week 23 hours and 59 minutes ago will ALL be paid to the respective vendors when your 1 week scheduled payment time arrives.)

2. Is it normal to receive the whole amount in Admin account when the payments are scheduled? (the vendor has a paypal account in his store settings by the way)

Yes- funds move to admin account first. Then the due commission moves from your admin paypal account > vendor’s paypal account on the schedule.

3. are the commissions transferred automatically from the admin account to vendor account without the admin pressing any button in wp-admin?

For the scheduled payments, yes.

4. Is there any other settings I should be aware of apart of setting up the commission percentage in Woocommerce/wcvendors/General and Woocommerce/wcvendors/Commissions

Check woocommerce > settings > payments for your credentials (paypal adaptive payments- no other paypal )
and then your settings in woocommerce > wc vendors > payments

5. Out of topic ish: If I select in Woocommerce/wcvendors/Commissions the “global commission type” as “percentage plus fee”, is it enough to charge the vendor a fixed fee plus percentage or should I ask my web developer to add the code I’ve seen in Knowledge Base about customizing commissions?

I am not sure I understand your question.. what do you mean “is it enough..”? What is your goal, what would you like to achieve with commissions? What do you, as admin, wish to receive from product sales?

Stefan,
1. Hmm. check with PayPal to ensure that MASS PAY is working with your account– ask if your account is setup to use Parallel Payments (instant payments in wc vendors) and Mass Pay (scheduled payments in wc vendors).. The scheduled payments are actually PayPal Adaptive + Mass Pay. Please go over this with them. And I am sorry but I do not know the time– I personally do not use paypal ever so I do not know what time of day the withdrawal is made and deposited to the vendor.

5.I think this can be dome just fine by just selection percentage + fee.. with 20 as commissions % and your 20p as the fee amount.

a. Yes, you can use our Stripe Commissions & Gateway plugin and PayPal Adaptive BOTH, but if you use PayPal AP and Stripe Commissions & Gateway, here’s how it works:

1.) You must use PayPal scheduled payments, not instant, for reasons you’ll see below:

2.) Vendors must connect to PayPal, but connecting to Stripe would be optional

3.) Customer uses Stripe, Stripe pays vendor commission. If vendor is not connected to Stripe, the commission is still “due” and not paid.

4.) Customer uses PayPal, PayPal holds commission till your schedule comes up to pay vendors.

5.) On your scheduled time for paying commissions, all due commissions are paid to all vendors. So, the vendor that didn’t get commission because they didn’t connect to Stripe, gets paid via PayPal here.

The reason you want to use scheduled for PayPal is because otherwise the non-stripe connected vendors would never get paid, unless you did it manually.

Hope that makes sense! ? So, vendors can have a preference, they can use PayPal, or PayPal + Stripe. But since Stripe ONLY pays vendors when the CUSTOMER uses the STRIPE gateway, they can not choose to have commissions paid from the paypal gateway to Stripe.

b. You’d likely need to work this our with a Membership plugin like Paid Memberships Pro or something. Monthly membership fee to be a vendor? See:https://www.wcvendors.com/help/topic/paid-membership-solution/

b1. If there is no split (100% to vendor) I do not think it shows your name- only the vendor. Do a test transaction and check. A lot of people do not like this- so they choose scheduled payments. Or Stripe.

b2. Sorry, but this you’ll have to direct to PayPal. Not only are there fees always changing- but they vary depending on your banking country.

c. The handling fee…? Other than that- there may be some plugins out there you can try , like this one: https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-product-fees/ I have NOT tested it and I do not know if it works.

d. No idea. Having more than one API might affect things with paypal processing. It may affect the payment process. I absolutely do not know, though. If this is set up separately from the payment process for a membership or something- it might not cause an issue at all since it is being used for a subscription/membership. Sometimes the classes do conflict, though- as was the case with a Stripe payment setup I had on my site. You’ll know— you’ll get a 500 error when sometime tries to checkout and pay for a purchase. 😉

No worries- ask as many question as you need to- I might not always have the answers, but will try to help however I can.

Not sure if I am reading this correctly, but I believe Paypal is highly restricting new Adaptive Payments accounts. Appears they could be discontinuing it in the future altogether. I am moving all of my vendors to Stripe as we speak. Easier anyways, plus it’s supported by WCVendors Pro.

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/products/adaptive-payments/

Stefan,
If you still wish to pay your vendors via paypal– you can do so manually still, I believe.
You would need to manually send the payment (due commission) from your paypal to your vendor’s paypal address, and then mark the due commission as paid in wp admin > woocommerce > commissions. Youcan also use another mehtod to pay your vendors- bank transfer, etc.

More labor intensive, but certainly they way a lot of marketplaces operate.

The good thing about this method, is that you can accept customer payments using whatever gateway/processors you want– then just collect your vendors’ paypal email, bank account- whatever- and pay them on your own schedule. That opens up the possibility to having other payment methods on your site for the customers.

Stefan,
Yeah- PayPal is ubiquitous, but that’s about all they have going for them.
If you use our Stripe Commissions & Gateway plugin https://www.wcvendors.com/product/stripe-commissions-gateway/ , it is a fairly straight forward process to set it up.
I do need to update those instructions because I have been notified that the Stripe pages have changed some during signup.
However, the process is still very similar.
After dealing with all of this paypal bs, you will probably find Stripe to be far more straight forward.
I think the single drawback in the UK is that *maybe* Stripe will hold the vendor’s funds for a week before releasing the fund to their bank account– that is very country dependent and I am not certain of this.

If you need any help, let me know. I CAN actually navigate Stripe fairly well since I have used it for about 10 years and use only the Stripe Commissions & Gateway plugin on my own marketplace.

Stefan,
There is no coding needed to set up the Stripe plugin.
Just let me know if you need help and we’ll work it out.

@cakecompare
For testing, you sign up for a Stripe account – more than one stripe account- using the same bank acocunt.
I had four different Stripe accounts that were connected to the same bank account (different bank account than my admin bank account) when I was testing Stripe. After I was done testing, I just closed three of those Stripe accounts. They do have to have different emails addresses.
BUT— if you then wish for any of those vendor accounts to be LIVE accounts after testing (you switch from development/testing to LIVE), make sure those vendors go and disconnect from Stripe in their dashboard (pro dashboard > settings > payments > disconnect from Stripe) and then re-connect once you are in LIVE mode.

You can override the default commissions rate on a per vendor basis, yes.
Go to the user, and set their commission rate (make sure you use the Pro Commissions field in the user’s setting, as shown in the screenshot below– NOT the regular free commissions field)
wp admin > user > user/vendorname > edit > scroll down to Pro Commission (select type from drop-down, then enter rate in the field that pops up) and scroll down to click SAVE.

https://www.wcvendors.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/procommissionsfield-copy.jpg