In order use the plugin correctly make sure the following requirements are met
PayPal requirements
Server Requirements
YITH Paypal Adaptive Payments for WooCommerce doesn’t manage recurring payments.
This procedure needs to be done only in case you are using the plugin in a live environment, not a a sandbox one.
In order to use the chance to apply a delay to the payment of commissions with the Chained method, enable “Delayed”.
If you complete all of these steps, wait until PayPal confirms the correct activation of the service.
If you want to test the plugin in sandbox mode, take the followint steps.
Recovery of the required credentials
Now you are ready to recover the credentials required by the plugin within the settings panel, namely:
To recover theAPP ID access the following address: https://www.paypal-apps.com/user/my-account/applications
In a sandbox environment, the APP ID is unique and you will find it at the link specified, at the bottom of the page, as shown in the screenshot.
Now that you have the required PayPal credentials, you can register all recipients you are going to share your store sales with.
Remember that any recipient must be a user that’s registered to your website and among the PayPal recipients address list, yours must not be entered, meaning the main vendor’s.
The receiver is not required to have an account PayPal Business.
From now on, each of the users you entered, will receive a commission for each registered sale on your shop.
This plugins adds the PayPal Adaptive Payments payment method to the checkout page, when at least one product “with commissions” is present.
Only in this case, all other payment gateways will be automatically removed, once PayPal Adaptive Payments is active.
You can choose between two different payment methods: Parallel and Chained.
Whichever you pick, don’t forget to insert theemail address associated to your PayPal Business account.
For each commission, PayPal applies a fee which is automatically subtracted from the amount credited to the vendor user.
The Parallel payment method has the following features:
The Chained method offers you the chance to receive the payment from the user and to pay the commissions to vendors later.
Commissions payment will occur automatically after x days from the moment the user performs the payment and the money will be taken directly from their PayPal account.
The system uses cron to automate payments using the Chained Delayed method.
You can have at most one primary receiver and 1-9 secondary receivers.
In the case of postponed payment (Chained Delayed), the payment of commissions can be manually forced by the dedicated button you find on Orders page.
In conclusion, the basic difference between Chained and Parallel is that by choosing the first one, the whole amount paid by the user is going to be credited to the PayPal account of the admin, and from there, commission payments are going to be automatically issued to the recipients.
During payment, the admin name is going to be the only one displayed to users in the vendors list, contrarily to what happens with the Parallel payment method.
As stated earlier, WordPress’ cron are used to handle commission payments inChained Delayed mode.
According to what you set in the Cron Settings tab in the plugin settings panel, the plugin schedules a recurring check during which it verifies if it’s necessary to issue one or more payments.
Don’t forget to verify that your server server is enabled to use cron. This condition is required for the“Chained Delayed” method to work properly.
Each recipient can verify the state of their commissions by accessing the “Your Commissions” section in the “My Account” page.
