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A couple of questions

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  1. Gravity Mong
    Member

    Hello

    I am thinking of purchasing a gravityform for my website however I just have a couple of concerns which need answering:

    1) I want to be able to have a feature similar to what a site like Elance have when it comes to payments. Basically elance is an outsourcing site and the person who is paying for the work to be done, funds the account via escrow, so the funds are secure, and when the work is compete they will release the funds to the person who carried out the work.

    This proves the person has the funds prior to work completed and also is a security for the person releasing the funds, as they are happy with the work carried out before payment.

    Now I see Paypal is used for transactions via gravityforms. Do they offer this service to hold the funds as security for both parites?

    2) I want visitors to be able to upload or attach files from the contact form - mainly word / excel documents. Is this possible, easily done and included in the cost?

    I only want myself to be able to view this private doccuments and not any visitor to the site.

    Assuming both the above are possible, can you please let me know how much the pricing will be?

    Thanks in advance.

    Posted 12 years ago on Monday July 11, 2011 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    1) PayPal does not have Escrow capabilities which is what you have described. So currently the PayPal Add-On isn't going to be able to do this for you.

    2) Gravity Forms does support file uploads via the File Upload field. It's easy to use and included as a standard field type.

    What you described with the Escrow type interaction isn't something Gravity Forms does out of the box. You would have to look into finding a service that provides Escrow services, or create your own system to manage this.

    Gravity Forms can integrate with 3rd party services via our API hooks and filters, so it would be possible to integrate Gravity Forms if the 3rd party service also has an API.

    Either way what you described with payment handling is pretty specialized and could only be done as a customization.

    Posted 12 years ago on Monday July 11, 2011 | Permalink

  3. Gravity Mong
    Member

    Thanks for your reply.

    I don't understand what you mean by API?

    Posted 12 years ago on Monday July 11, 2011 | Permalink

  4. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    An API is a way to interact with a service using code. You can read more here:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface

    Posted 12 years ago on Monday July 11, 2011 | Permalink