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Josh
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Posted: 17th Aug 2006 22:44 Edited at: 17th Aug 2006 22:44
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I need some help/advice/tips with PayPal.

Do you know if its possible to automate things. I.E. A customer purchases a product from my website paying me $30, I keep $5 and send the remainder to the person who created the software.

Obviously I don't want to have to go through and do this by hand, so is it possible to automate this? And also I need to provide secure download links too...

Any help would be appreciated.

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John Y
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Posted: 17th Aug 2006 23:31
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Quote: "Do you know if its possible to automate things. I.E. A customer purchases a product from my website paying me $30, I keep $5 and send the remainder to the person who created the software."


You can't automate the transfer of money, but you can provide 'landing pages' which depending on the payment result are called. You can therefore on the success page email the person that they have a sale, and then pay the person monthly.

Quote: "And also I need to provide secure download links too..."


Thats something for you to figure out. A simple solution would be to get an ASP/PHP script to make a folder with random letters and copy the download to it. Then provide the customer with this location. After a week or so you can safely delete the folder.

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 17th Aug 2006 23:45
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Yeah, paypal can only do so much. There's no universal business software that I know of that takes the grunt work out of owning your own business... as a business owner it will be your responsibility to make sure your people are paid whatever they're owed. It's not as hard as it sounds. Let's make this simple and just assume that your gross is tax-free and all of that. Your product, for the sake of arguement, is $100 (nice round number) and you need to pay joe schmo 10% of the net, so $10 from each sale. At the end of a pay cycle you've earned $1000, so you pay him $100... 10% of the net. Make sense? Figure out the exact percentage that you are going to be paid and your friend is going to be paid, then pay out that percentage each cycle so that you don't need to go splitting up each and every bit of income. It's less time-consuming that way


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Josh
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Posted: 17th Aug 2006 23:59
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I guess it would be easier if I were taking credit card details directly but thats not an option atm.


@Matt Rock:

Good tip about the percentage definitely makes things simpler.


Quote: "Thats something for you to figure out. A simple solution would be to get an ASP/PHP script to make a folder with random letters and copy the download to it. Then provide the customer with this location. After a week or so you can safely delete the folder."


Oh I can do that easily in PHP, was just wondering if PayPal could do it for me, kind of like ShareIt.

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Posted: 18th Aug 2006 04:24 Edited at: 18th Aug 2006 04:25
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Quote: "There's no universal business software that I know of "

*starts to think of those IBM commercials*


Take a look at paypal's sdk and see what it can do.

I'm wondering if you can receive a code when deposits are made to you. The code could be an ID of the creator and when a deposit is received automatically sent a payment out to that person.

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Josh
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Posted: 18th Aug 2006 13:48
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Hmm looking at the PayPal SDK was a good idea, thanks. Looks like I'm going to be able to use the PHP SDK to process transactions, add them to a database and use a small script to work out how much I should be paying people.

Just in case anybody else wants the PayPal SDKs: Clicky.

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