I need a way to use PayPal's Parallel payment in combination with Chained payments. From what I can sift from their perplexing documentation this doesn't appear to be possible.
Essentially what I want is:
Primary A (visible) > Secondary (hidden)
Sender >
Primary B (visible)
Ordinarily Chained payments would be fine, but I want the sender to see the amount going to Primary A and Primary B when he gets redirected to PayPal.
Any thoughts?
Parallel and Chained Payments have similar functions but are different from each other. Both are used to send money to multiple recipients but with Chained Payments the buyer would only see the primary receiver. With Parallel Payments the buyer would see every receiver.
You should be able to use just Parallel Payments just fine. The buyer wouldn't just see the amount of money being sent to the extra recipients though.
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We have a situation, where sender will do digital goods(services) from multiple provider, but sender do the payment in one transaction in delayed chained payment mode, so initially primary receiver will receive all money.
Now the primary receiver will have to execute payment to send money to the secondary receivers. However in our case, we have to pay only one receiver at a time. But Execute API, will pay to all the receivers at once.
Is there any other way, so that we can execute part of the payment of that transaction to particular receiver.
Thanks
With a delayed chained payment there is no way to pay secondary receiver(s) individually at different intervals.
You could do what you're saying, though, by ditching the delayed chained payment method altogether and using another method. For example, if you just use a regular checkout method (Payments Standard, Express Checkout, etc.) and let the money go to a primary account, then you could use build separate Pay requests from the primary to a secondary receiver at any time you want to. You could do the same thing using MassPay, too.
I need to have delayed payments using PayPal from one customer of the site to another customer. Receiver should get the funds 2 weeks later.
I wanted to use Delayed Chained Payments from Adaptive Payments and set primary receiver amount to 0, but it didn't work.
Are there any options of delayed payments without primary receiver? (not chained delayed payments)
When you're doing a chained payment the primary receiver amount should be the full amount of the payment. Then the secondary receiver would be whatever amount they should get.
If you want to push the the entire amount, then instead of setting the primary amount to 0, set them both to the same thing.
I'm only mostly sure that will work for you. You'll need to give it a shot and see, but if I remember correctly that's how chained payments works with the amounts.
A proposed scenario is, assume the shopping cart site, where buyer has to pay for a product. The sold product costs will be transferred to the respective merchant. Here, the website owner has to be paid(commission) for the purchased product.
Is it possible in Paypal? Right now, I am using Paypal checkout. Your ideas/suggestions would be helpful. Please do it.
There are a number of ways you could set this up.
You could use the Adaptive Payments platform, specifically the Pay API, to create parallel or chained payments so that multiple receivers can receive money within the same transaction.
You can also do a parallel payment with Express Checkout, but you can't do a chained payment.
The main difference is that with parallel payments the buyer will see the split during checkout. With a chained payment you can hide that so they only see the primary receiver. Also, chained payments can be delayed so you can trigger the commission to be paid at a later time if necessary (for example, waiting for services to be completed.)
Another way you could do this is to use Payments Standard, Express Checkout, or Payments Pro, and let the payment go entirely to a single account. Then setup a Pay API request to submit payment to the secondary receiver, or use the MassPay API. This could be setup within an IPN solution so the entire thing is automated. In this case you'd basically be building what the adaptive payments platform does for you, but it would give you a little bit more freedom over everything in the application.
I'v question regarding PayPal chained payments. I employ freelancers (who are the secondary receivers) from different countries who provide online services to my customers. The customer should pay directly to the freelancers and also directly to me (my share). I think that chained payments are the best option because in this case the freelancer can't see the customer details and vice verse. One problem remain though, I understand that before the payment to the freelancer is done, it pass through my account. If this is the case, then the whole sum that the client paid would pass through my account and for tax reasons the whole sum is considered as my income while in fact only part of it goes to me. I have no problem with the payment to the receivers pass through me, but I don't want it to be documented as income, only the part that goes to me should be documented as income and the share of the receivers should be documented from the beginning as their share. Is it possible with this option?
What you want is Parallel payments, not chained payments.
Parallel payments
Chained payments
Also take a look at Introducing Adaptive Payments
no . acutally I would like the same, chained payment, not parallel as I don't want someone to know what's my share. just want to set up primary receiver the person who will do the stuff, and I , comissioner, am the receiver number 2
I'm struggling to understand PayPals documentation, but is Parallel Payments intended to pay multiple merchants from a single buyer?
A previous question asks for the difference between Parallel and Chained payments, but no mention of this fact is in the answer.
What I need to do is pay money into multiple PayPal accounts which may not be merchant accounts. In this case is Chained Payments my only option?
Any advice here would be much appreciated.
Yes. PayPal Adaptive Parallel Payments sends money from one buyer to multiple merchants.
PayPal Adaptive Chained Payments sends monety from one buyer, to 1 merchant (who can take his cut and will be the merchant of record) and the remainder is automatically forwarded to the second recipient.
Also take a look at Introducing Adaptive Payments
Parallel payments
Chained payments
In addition to a slightly different flow, chained payments also allows you to designate another recipient as the one to pay the fees.
For example, if receiver 1 is going to be merchant of record, but you want receiver 2 to pay all the fees, you could set that up with Adaptive Payments as well.