With our YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor / Marketplace plugin, you can pay commissions to vendors manually or automatically. Commissions can be paid manually if, for example, the admin chooses to make a bank transfer or send the payment through PayPal outside the site. By doing so, there’s no way the plugin can record the payment on its own so, after making the payment, the admin would have to go to the dashboard, to YITH > Multi Vendor > Commissions, and mark each commission as paid:
Or you can use our plugins, YITH PayPal Payouts for WooCommerce or YITH Stripe Connect for WooCommerce, and pay commissions automatically. Let’s see how to use our PayPal Payouts plugin to do so…
- Once you install and activate both plugins, Multi Vendor and PayPal Payouts, you’ll need to configure PayPal Payouts (you can refer to this documentation page to learn how to do it) and then enable PayPal Payouts to pay commissions in YITH > Multi Vendor > Commissions > Gateways:
- In the following tab, Commissions Settings, the option to pay commissions to vendors during checkout can be enabled. By doing so, a new option will appear to select the payment gateway to use on checkout and that’s where you’ll choose PayPal Payouts:
This way, when customers place their orders, the payment will be automatically split between the admin and the vendor considering the commission rate set, making it that much easier to pay vendors. If the payment is processed successfully, the commission will be automatically marked as paid:
Please note that for this to be possible, vendors must have a PayPal email address added to their accounts. In case they didn’t add it when they registered to become vendors, they can set this up on their dashboards > Your shop > Payment info:
